Terrorism

A top Army commander says he hopes that Purple Hearts awarded to dozens of survivors and relatives of soldiers who died in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting gives them closure.

This week the victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting will receive purple hearts.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether the 21-year-old former college student should be executed.

President Barack Obama asked Congress on Wednesday to authorize military force to "degrade and defeat" Islamic State forces in the Middle East without sustained, large-scale U.S. ground combat operations, setting lawmakers on a path toward their first war powers vote in 13 years.

Recent attacks by the terrorist group ISIS has many countries on edge, including the U.S. Dr. Jeremi Suri, a professor at UT-Austin talks about the ongoing crisis.