The U.S. has carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting a militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor, a Defense Department spokesman said Sunday.

New video shows the moment the Jersey City shooters stormed into the Kosher market, before blasting at the helpless victims inside. The surveillance video obtained by NBC News is shot from above the entrance to the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive. The U-Haul truck shooters David Anderson and Francine Graham were driving in, which New Jersey Attorney…

The deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial this year. Investigators believe that the man and woman who killed three people at the Jersey City grocery Tuesday in addition to gunning…

A Massachusetts man accused of striking another man with a shovel, attacking him with a box cutter and calling him anti-gay slurs has been arrested on charges of assault and committing a hate crime, Boston police said. Boston police officers responded to reports of an assault around noon Tuesday and found a man bleeding from the head. The 25-year-old man…

The president of the West African nation of Burkina Faso has confirmed that 14 people were killed in an attack on a Protestant church in the country’s east. Going on Twitter, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said Sunday that he condemned “the barbaric attack” in the town of Hantoukoura. He said several people also were wounded. Kabore offered his “deepest...

A pair of people claiming to be selling solar panels attacked and robbed a woman in her Worcester home on Wednesday evening, authorities said. Worcester Police were called to a home on Epworth Street for an apparent home invasion shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday.

One man has been arrested and authorities are searching for several others after an alleged attack on a 60-year-old man with a cane at an MBTA stop in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. The victim, who asked to be identified as “Alex,” says he has a disability and uses his cane to get around. “They hurt me, and I did everything I...

A 17-year-old is scheduled to appear before a judge after he was arrested in connection to a baseball bat attack in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Police are searching for a man who allegedly attacked a mother in Cambridge, Massachusetts and take her baby.

A Marlborough, Massachusetts woman and her dog were attacked by three pit bulls Saturday morning. “I’ve lived in this neighborhood all my life. This is the first time we’ve ever had anything like this occur,” Allan White said.

A Marlborough, Massachusetts woman and her dog were attacked by three pit bulls Saturday morning. “I’ve lived in this neighborhood all my life. This is the first time we’ve ever had anything like this occur,” Allan White said.

Two Massachusetts men are being held without bail after police say they assaulted a disabled man and threatened to eat his dog. Joshua Farias, 37, and Brian Richard Souza, 37, both of Fall River, were arraigned in Fall River District Court on Thursday and charged with assault and battery dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a disabled person, and breaking...

A mom dragged an 81-year-old woman to the ground by her hair after the two got into an argument as they were waiting to see “Dumbo” at a movie theater, police and the victim said.

A Massachusetts man accused of assaulting his mother with a meat tenderizer on Wednesday night has been captured in Vermont. Walpole police said Ian Crowley was taken into custody without incident in Hartford, Vermont, on Friday. No other details were immediately available. “Thanks to the agencies that assisted in the search and to the media outlets and general public who...

While officials continue to search for the man accused of assaulting his mother with a meat tenderizer, police in Massachusetts have obtained an arrest warrant for the suspect. Walpole resident Ian Crowley is facing an attempted murder charge after the alleged Wednesday night attack.

Niwad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, responded Friday to the terrorist attacks on mosques in New Zealand. He called on President Donald Trump to “condemn this, not only as a hate crime, but as a white supremacist terrorist attack.”

New England leaders are reacting and offering their condolences following the deadly mass shootings that killed 49 people in two New Zealand mosques on Friday. The victims were worshippers in Christchurch who were killed in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as a terrorist attack. Other than the deceased, the massacre injured 20 others.

A Long Island man blinded his grandmother by gouging her eyes out during an argument, prosecutors say.

A school bus driver is recovering after allegedly getting attacked while driving children.

Worcester police are searching for the attacker who assaulted an LGBT student on the College of the Holy Cross campus.