
The House Committee on Homeland Security recently released an updated Terror Threat Snapshot assessment.
The assessment includes more than 30 developments in the domestic and global threat and highlights the persistent threat from terrorism associated with foreign jihadist networks and anti-Israel or anti-Semitic ideologies. Many foreign terrorist organizations have called for their supporters to target Jewish communities in the United States and Europe.
Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom were placed on the Department of State’s Level 2 travel advisory list in May because of the increased potential for terrorist activity impacting American travelers.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a factsheet for first responders and emergency managers on the elevated public safety threat to large public gatherings.
Members of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence sent a letter Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem earlier this month, requesting the alien file for Mohamed Sabry Soliman. Soliman, who was in the United States illegally, targeted participants of an event calling for the release of Hamas-held hostages in Gaza.
“From the resurgence of foreign jihadist networks across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia to the rise of homegrown extremists and online radicalization, the West is facing a dynamic and volatile terror threat landscape,” August Pfluger (R-TX), subcommittee chairman said. “This landscape has only intensified in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks, with a disturbing rise in anti-Semitic and anti-Israel violence on U.S. soil, as well as the reckless anti-enforcement, open-border policies of the Biden-Harris administration. As a former fighter pilot who fought against ISIS, I know how important it is for the American people to understand the full scope of the threats we face. We must take bold action against our enemies to protect our communities, and today’s hearing will be an important opportunity to do just that.”
In February, legislation was introduced targeting terrorists.
The Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act would require DHS to conduct annual assessments on terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist organizations using generative artificial intelligence applications for terroristic activity.
The Countering Online Radicalization and Terrorism Act would required DHS to conduct annual assessments on terrorism threats posed to the United States by terrorist organizations using foreign cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging applications.
The Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act would require an evaluation of the threat posed to the United States by individuals in Syria with ties to Foreign Terrorist Organizations or a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization.