(BBC) The UK’s terror threat level has been lowered from severe to substantial, meaning a terror attack on British soil is considered “likely.” The level was raised to severe — where an attack is “highly likely” — after two terror attacks late […]
(AFP) The role of Islam in French society has emerged as a key battleground in the presidential election campaign, leaving many French Muslims uneasy over the bursts of rhetoric against the nation’s largest religious minority. Far-right candidates Marine Le Pen of the […]
(National-UAE) German security services are bracing themselves for the possibility of extremists in Europe travelling to Afghanistan to fight or train with Al Qaeda. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, said the Taliban’s return to power had made Afghanistan […]
(Canadian Press) A Kingston, Ont., teen who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges was handed a three-year sentence on Wednesday, as an Ontario judge agreed the youth was unlikely to reoffend and commended his progress “in the face of enormous obstacles” while detained […]
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(BBC) The jury in the trial of a man alleged to have tried to kill two women in a department store has been discharged. The manager of Marks & Spencer in Burnley, Lancashire, was wounded in the neck and a customer was […]
(Euractiv) An extensive campaign against Sweden is currently underway on social media, P4 Örebro and TT reported. Accounts linked to Islamists are posting false claims that Swedish authorities have kidnapped children. “In the past week, it has escalated sharply, and in comment […]
(AP) Four people have been arrested on the Greek island of Lesbos after violence broke out during a protest against plans to build a new migrant camp, authorities said Tuesday. Following a peaceful march to the site in heavy rain Monday, a […]
(Brussels Times) Thirteen suspected members of a terrorist group were arrested in a major police operation in Antwerp on Tuesday morning. The suspects were alleged to have distributed jihadist propaganda, De Standaard reports. Nearly 100 investigators of the federal judicial police raided […]
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(Fox) The campaign of “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has paid out $170,000 to an anti-Israel activist who has called Israel an “apartheid state” and has called for defunding the police multiple times. Tlaib’s campaign has paid $147,000 to Unbought Power LLC, […]
(WMTV) A 40-year-old man who openly shared his experiences of coming to Wausau from Afghanistan as part of the refugee resettlement project has been arrested following an investigation in[to] sexual assault. Police are recommending Matiullah Matie be charged with fourth-degree sexual assault. […]
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(Middle East Eye) Muslims across the United States are celebrating President Joe Biden’s judicial nomination of Nusrat Choudhury, who, if confirmed by the Senate, will be the first Muslim woman to be appointed as a US federal judge. Choudhury, a Bangladeshi American among […]
(Free Beacon) Supreme Court frontrunner Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was an active and dedicated advocate for terror suspects housed at Guantanamo Bay, contrary to press accounts and her own representations. Jackson has portrayed her work for the detainees as that of a […]
(AFP) French prosecutors said Monday they have opened an investigation after death threats were issued against a journalist after she fronted a report over the rise of radical Islam in France. Ophelie Meunier has been under police protection since the M6 channel […]
(ANSA) A suspected “radicalised” Moroccan Islamist suspected of terrorism who escaped from Avellino jail south of Naples on January 11 was caught at Metz in northeast France Sunday, but a second jail breaker, a 21-year-old Romanian, is still on the run, sources […]
(NCA NewsWire) One of the men who helped plot a Christmas Day terror attack to behead and bomb people at an iconic Melbourne location is arguing the jury verdict was “unsafe and unsatisfactory.” Hamza Abbas was found guilty of committing an act […]
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(AP) Hundreds of people marched through central Athens on Sunday to protest what they say are Greece’s pushbacks of migrants and refugees at the border with Turkey. The marchers carried an inflatable dinghy, like those migrants use to cross the sea from […]
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(NY Post) A convicted felon accused by the US government of supporting “the cause of violent jihad” — and promoting 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden — donated to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and a host of progressive Democrats following his release from […]
(Radio France) Abdellah Chouaa is suspected of having helped with the preparation of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks which cost 131 people their lives. He risks 20 years in prison if convicted. On Friday he gave evidence about himself, and about […]
(AP) The French government on Saturday introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism. The Forum of Islam in France leadership will be made up of clergy and lay people […]
(Algemeiner) Last Friday’s decision by District Court Judge Andrew Hanen of Texas has been lauded as a landmark victory by supporters of Israel boycotts — an irony, given the opinion actually upholds the constitutionality of state laws that deem such boycotts discriminatory and […]
(ANSA) The mother of a 12-year-old Italian girl who betrothed her to a Pakistani man has been placed under investigation on charges of forced marriage, domestic abuse, abduction of a minor and taking her abroad, abandonment of a minor and sexual violence, […]
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(BBC) A Danish court has found three members of an Iranian opposition group guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia. The three men were detained by police in February 2020 and are members of the Saudi-backed Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of […]
(AFP) Five woman jihadist travellers are expected to appear in a Rotterdam court Monday on terror charges after being repatriated from a Syrian refugee camp, prosecutors said Friday. The five women and 11 children arrived in the Netherlands earlier in the day, […]
(Radio France) On Thursday, it was the turn of Hamza Attou and Ali Oulkadi to give evidence at the Paris attacks trial. Both are suspected of having helped Salah Abdeslam, the only member of the Paris terror squads still alive, to avoid […]
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(ANSA) A 12-year-old Italian girl has been taken from her mother and placed with her paternal grandparents after the mother promised her in marriage to the brother of her new Pakistani husband, the Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia newspaper reported Thursday. The girl […]
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(Swiss Info) Federal prosecutors have now cleared both Swiss nationals suspected of supporting the November 2020 terror attack which killed four people in Vienna. The pair were arrested in November 2020 on suspicion of having made a “causal contribution to support or […]
(AP) European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis. The EU has […]
(CBS) The Kansas woman accused of traveling to Syria in support of the Islamic State was ordered detained pending trial on Thursday following her arrest late last month. Allison Fluke-Ekren, described in charging documents as a mother and teacher turned ISIS battalion […]
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(Miami Herald) A Cuban-born man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to supporting a foreign terrorist group by distributing propaganda videos on social media, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami said Wednesday. Jonathan Guerra Blanco, 24, who […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands collected five Dutch women and their 11 children from a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Syria. They’ll be brought to the Netherlands so that the women can be prosecuted for participation in terrorist organization ISIS, insiders told NOS. […]
(Radio France) Yassine Atar faces a life sentence for his suspected role in providing a hideout for the terrorists who killed 131 people in the November 2015 attacks in Paris. Along with close family members, he took the stand Tuesday and Wednesday, […]
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(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country’s presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders against people illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area. Macron is expected to run […]
(BBC) A man who attacked a shopper in a Marks & Spencer store would have continued to stab her if his weapon had not jammed in her handbag strap, a jury has heard. Munawar Hussain, 58, stabbed Janet Dell and the store […]
(Anadolu) Austria’s Greens party continued to take public criticism on Wednesday over an alleged coalition agreement to ban headscarves for teachers in schools. Recently leaked documents suggested that the Greens had engaged in an undisclosed deal with the Austrian People’s Party (OVP) […]
(CNS) U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides dismissed as “absurd” Amnesty International’s claim that Israel is an “apartheid” state — and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is outraged. “Come on, this is absurd,” Nides said on Twitter in response to the […]
(AFP) French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour on Wednesday suggested criminals in high-rise housing estates are fighting alongside jihadists in a “civilisational battle” pitting immigrants against traditional French culture. The 63-year-old, who has often used the hundreds of people killed by jihadists […]
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