The 2026 CT Strategy formally elevates Western Hemisphere cartels and domestic anarchist networks to co equal threat status with Sunni jihadist organizations and directs whole of government enforcement against all three.

An active-duty Army soldier at Fort Polk, Louisiana was charged April 28 with federal threats charges after posting audio recordings on Discord of a specific plan to enter a synagogue armed with an AK-pattern rifle and 75-round drum magazine and kill every Jewish worshipper present.

Authorities say they disrupted an alleged antisemitic mass-casualty plot targeting a Houston synagogue, arresting an 18-year-old in North Carolina on conspiracy charges while separate Texas action included a juvenile arrest, prompting precautionary closures and heightened security around local Jewish institutions.

Federal prosecutors escalated the January 6 pipe bomb case by filing a superseding indictment adding WMD and terrorism charges against Brian Cole Jr., who faces potential life imprisonment if convicted on the new counts.

After weeks of unexplained “booms” in a White Plains neighborhood, authorities allege a convicted felon was building, stockpiling, and throwing explosive devices on a residential street, culminating in the recovery of 25+ suspected IEDs and federal charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction.

The FBI's terrorism designation of the West Bloomfield synagogue ramming as Hezbollah-inspired marks the first confirmed instance of domestic violence tied to the ongoing US-Iran conflict. The attack template, a US-based actor radicalized by family casualties in Lebanon, represents a scalable threat as the conflict continues.