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Europol director says Islamist terrorism remains the biggest terror threat to Western Europe. With two deadly acts of terrorism confirmed in Western Europe in the last six days, the European Union's top law enforcement official said she is worried about what might happen in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's military response. "I am concerned," executive director of Europol Catherine De Bolle told ABC News. "With our latest report on terrorism and the status in the European Union, we see that a lot of youngsters, in fact, are influenced and recruited through internet. We see a lot of lone actors that believe that they have to go and commit a terrorist attack because they want to belong to a bigger family." Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, Oct. 10, 2018. Peter Dejong/AP On Oct. 13 in northern France, a man who was under surveillance since the summer by French security services stabbed a teacher to death at his former high scho...

A French cement company, LaFarge, pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism after families of US servicemen killed by ISIS sued it. Families of U.S. servicemen killed by ISIS have sued Lafarge, the French conglomerate that pleaded guilty earlier this year to bribing the Islamic State group and the Al-Nusra Front to keep a cement plant running through the Syrian civil war. The guilty plea and a nearly $800-million fine were part of the U.S. government's first-ever prosecution of a corporation for providing material support for terrorism . MORE: French company pleads guilty to paying millions to ISIS The "economic self-interest" of Lafarge enabled the Islamic State group's slaughtering of innocent civilians, including Americans, their families said in a new lawsuit. In this Oct. 19, 2022, file photo, the concrete plant of the French building materials company, Lafarge is seen in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Chesnot/Getty Images, FILE "Defendants' payments to a...