Iran Conflict Raises Global Terrorism Threat Level

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🗓️ 2 May 2026

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Summary

It has been 15-years since the night al-Qaeda mastermind and chief, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a daring SEAL Team 6 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan. While it was a great victory against terrorism and Islamic radicalism, the threat of terrorism remains high after years of porous borders and the development of new weaponry. And now, with a direct military conflict with Iran, one of the world's largest sponsors of terror groups, how vulnerable is the United States to a terror attack? FOX’s Tonya J. Powers speaks with Dr. James Robbins, Dean of the Institute of World Politics, who says Tehran would love to take revenge on the United States in some form of terror attack, and he also recounts the search for Osama bin Laden. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Ben Dominic. I'm Ainslie Earhart. I'm Trey Gowdy, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:07.8	Friday, May 1st, 2026. I'm Tanya J. Powers. 15 years after the capture and killing of al-Qaeda founder
0:15.7	Osama bin Laden, there are still potential terror risks to the U.S. and its national security.
0:21.8	One of those is the threat posed by Iran.
0:24.3	The Islamic Republic of Iran, who, after we have been complicit in killing their supreme leader,
0:30.1	I am absolutely positive.
0:31.7	They would love to come over here and create havoc for us.
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1:12.4	It's been 15 years since the U.S. conducted Operation Neptune Spear, in which Navy SEAL
1:18.2	Team 6 shot and killed al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abadabad, Pakistan.
1:24.4	The hunt for the mastermind behind the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, lasted
1:29.3	almost a decade and brought discussions about national security to the forefront once again.
1:34.7	Now, a decade and a half later, we remember what it felt like to learn of the death of one of the
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