2015 Event Prince Charles shakes hands with Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein party, which was formerly part of the militant Irish Republican Army; Prince Charles is the first member of the British royal family to meet him 2014 Event Pakistani officials have arrested suspects in the Taliban's military school attack that killed 148 people; the government has lifted a death penalty moratorium and has bombed militant strongholds along the Afghan border to address terrorist violence 2014 Event United Nation member states agree to a resolution aiming to prevent their citizens from joining or supporting militant groups, particularly the Islamic State, in Iraq and Syria 2014 Event President Barack Obama announces that the U.S. will increase its support for forces fighting the advances of the Islamic State militant group; air power, military training and other aid will be provided, but U.S. troops will not be sent to battle 2014 Event Mohammed Zakari, a leader of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has been arrested by Nigerian police; Boko Haram is implicated in hundreds of deaths and kidnappings, and Zakari is wanted for the recent killings of seven people 2011 Event Militant Islamic group Al-Quaeda confirms Osama bin Laden's death and threatens revenge 2011 Event U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives 2010 Event In Bauchi, northern Nigeria, an Islamist militant group named Boko Haram raids a prison and frees 721 inmates 2010 Event Russia's Federal Security Service assassinates Magomedali Vagabov, a militant leader reportedly responsible for the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings 2009 Event Phillipine police arrest a new terror suspect one week after the head of the militant Rajah Solaiman Movement is captured 1994 Death Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32 1991 Event Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India 1969 Event Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans 1923 Birthday Philip Berrigan, militant priest, Chicago 7
