Terrorism News

In response to recent media reports alleging that a Bulgarian-registered company supplied pagers to the Lebanese organization Hezbollah, which were subsequently detonated in Lebanon and Syria, the State Agency for National Security (SANS) has stated that no customs operations involving these goods were conducted within Bulgaria. SANS clarified that there were no customs Read more…

A British citizen wanted by Interpol with a red notice was detained near Pleven. The arrest operation was carried out yesterday in the village of Ljubenovo, around 2:00 p.m., announced the spokesperson of the chief prosecutor Siika Mileva: “During the search and seizure of the house where he was hiding, drawings and diagrams of Read more…

Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people for supporting terrorist acts in connection with an explosion in central Istanbul that killed six people on Nov. 13, the country’s chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev said on Saturday. Three men of Moldovan origin and a man and woman of Syrian Kurdish descent were detained Read more…

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the attack on Sarafovo airport. July 18, 2012 will go down in history as a cruel memory for thousands. On that day, a bus with Israeli tourists who had just landed at the “Sarafovo” airport in Burgas to spend their vacation in our Black Sea resorts, became the target of Read more…

At the conclusion of a trial in absentia, a five-member panel of Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court has found Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan guilty in connection with the July 2012 terrorist attack on Israeli tourists at Bourgas Airport and sentenced the two to life in prison with no Read more…