Syed Farook

Common software would have let FBI unlock shooter's Apple iPhone

The county government that owned the iPhone in a high-profile legal battle between Apple and the Justice Department paid for but never installed a feature that would have allowed the FBI to easily and immediately unlock the phone as part of the terrorism investigation into the shootings that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.

Worldwide protests supporting Apple in encryption fight with FBI planned by Internet rights group

Protesters are preparing to assemble in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass shootings in Southern California.

Marketing strategy behind Apple's denial to unlock iPhone: US

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that there was brand marketing strategy behind the refusal by Apple, a technology company in Silicon Valley, to help access the phone of a terrorist killer.

Severed pig's head outside mosque: After California shooting, spike in harassment of Muslims

A severed pig's head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane reference to the Islamic State group.

California shooter Syed Farook plotted 2012 attack but got 'cold feet', says friend

California shooter Syed Farook plotted an attack with an accomplice three years ago but got "cold feet" after a wave of US counterterrorism arrests, a senator said Wednesday.

California shooter Farook received $28,500 before killings, cites media report

Syed Farook was 'obsessed' with IS ideology, says father of San Bernardino shooter

The father of Syed Farook says his son approved the ideas of the Islamic State group and was fixated with Israel.

California shooting: 14 people, 2 suspects killed in a deadly mass shooting in the US

Two heavily-armed suspects, a man and a woman in their 20s, have died in a shootout with police after killing 14 people at a Christmas party in California in America's deadliest mass shooting in three years.

San Bernardino shooting: Suspect Syed Farook's family in shock, say they have no idea about motive

California's Muslim community expressed its horror on Wednesday at the mass shooting that killed at least 14 in San Bernardino, after a local Muslim man was widely identified as a suspect.