The guards, authorities say, wanted to send a message. “Somebody’s leaving in an ambulance tonight,” Eliseo Perez, an assistant chief for security at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex, told inmates after a rash of attacks on guards, according to prosecutors. Then he allegedly instructed five subordinates to take prisoner ... Read More »

A veteran Belgian Islamic State fighter and bomb-maker whose DNA was found on two of the explosive belts used in last November’s carnage in Paris has been confirmed as one of the suicide bombers in Tuesday’s Brussels attacks. Belgian prosecutors said that DNA evidence had confirmed that Najim Laachraoui, 24, ... Read More »