Shootout

A 29-year-old man was arrested in the Paris region on Dec. 15 as part of the vast investigation into last month's attacks on the city that left 130 dead, a judicial source said.

Islamic State (IS) militants claimed responsibility for the shooting in San Bernardino in southern California on Wednesday, which claimed the lives of fourteen people and left 21 injured.

Militants of IS described the two perpetrators, who stormed a Christmas party at the county department of public health as "supporters" of the terrorist group.

As many as three people killed at least 14 people and wounded another 17 during a Christmas party at a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. Three shooters, reportedly clad in military-style gear and masks, barged into the center and opened fired in the deadliest mass shooting to take place in the United States in three years.

The body of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified among those killed in a police raid, the prosecutor's office said Nov. 19.

A Belgian shepherd dog, called Diesel, was killed on Wednesday as one female suicide bomber blew herself out during a police shoot-out with a number of suspected terrorists, that may have included the lead plotter of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

Amid gunfire and explosions, police raided a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up Nov. 18. The siege ended with two deaths and seven arrests but no clear information on his fate.

Two suspected jihadists were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout Nov. 18 in north Paris with police hunting the mastermind of last week's attacks on the French capital, sources said.

Belgian media named Abdel Hamid Abaaoud, a returning Syrian jihadi, as the mastermind of the Paris attacks. Belgian newspaper, Le Soir, cited Belgian sources to outline the role of Abaaoud, a grocer’s son from the Belgian town of Molenbeek, as the radical extremist who was the brains behind the attack.

A gunman went on a shooting rampage at a college in the US state of Oregon on Oct.1, killing 10 people and wounding seven before he died in a shootout with police.

A police officer died in a shootout in the southeastern province of Siirt early on July 7, while one man was found dead inside the car that had triggered the armed clash. 

Thirty-year-old policeman Bünyamin Tor?ut died after fire was opened from inside a car that was halted due to smuggling suspicions. A man inside the car was later captured dead on a road in Siirt.