FBI arrested 18-year-old Christian Sturdivant from Mint Hill, NC, on New Year's Eve for plotting an ISIS-inspired knife and hammer attack on a grocery store and fast-food restaurant. Handwritten notes detailed stabbing 20 people; he faces 20 years in prison. Multi-agency effort saved lives.
Gujarat ATS busts a major terror plot, arresting a Telangana doctor and two others planning a Ricin poison attack. Linked to ISKP, the men were caught with pistols, castor oil, and had scouted targets in Delhi, Lucknow, and Ahmedabad.
The Gujarat ATS arrested three ISIS-linked terrorists in Ahmedabad who were planning attacks across India and were caught with weapons. This follows the team's success in July when they arrested five members of an Al-Qaeda (AQIS) terror module.
Soon after the terrorist attack, Russian security forces launched a widespread manhunt for the perpetrators who had managed to escape. Four terrorists were captured alive by Russian forces while trying to flee towards the Ukrainian border.