(CBS) The U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist has nearly doubled in size in just six years, a CBS Reports investigation has found. An extensive review of court records, government documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former intelligence community leaders […]
(Dominion Post) An Islamic marriage contract or nikah is enforceable under New Zealand law, but needs cultural context, the Court of Appeal has decided. It is the first time the question of enforceability of a nikah — under which a husband is […]
(Canadian Press) A fourth person has been arrested in Calgary as part of an ongoing national security investigation related to terrorism-related posts on TikTok and other social media sites. Federal crown prosecutor Kent Brown says a 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday and […]
(Calgary Herald) The Calgary judge who ordered a city teen to comply with a 12-month terrorism peace bond expressed concerns Thursday about his potential success. “I wish your client every success in complying,” Justice John Shaw told defence counsel Vignesh Pillai about […]
(Free Beacon) A Republican in Congress is probing the Biden administration’s communications with an anti-Israel group that is known to promulgate anti-Semitic propaganda and whose leader celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Rep. Darrell […]
(Reuters) Germany has agreed with Turkey to phase out a controversial programme that posts Turkish imams to German mosques, the interior ministry in Berlin announced on Thursday, saying that the move would boost the integration of Muslims in Germany. Some 100 imams […]
(Sky News) A Chechen-born man accused of being an “international terrorist” conducting hostile reconnaissance against a dissident Iranian TV station in West London has claimed he was “set up.” Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, is accused of conducting surveillance on Iran International at the […]
(Reuters) As record numbers of Syrian refugees reach the shores of Cyprus, the Nicosia government wants the European Union to consider declaring parts of their war-torn homeland safe to repatriate them to, the Cypriot interior minister said. “Starting a discussion to re-evaluate […]
(NL Times) The Rotterdam resident arrested on Thursday morning in Rotterdam-Zuid as part of an anti-terrorism operation is suspected of being “a long-standing member” of Hamas. This was reported by the German Public Prosecution Service on Thursday afternoon, which stated that a […]
(Stars and Stripes) An Indiana man who teamed up with his brother to try and sell arms to the Islamic State group has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his crimes, the Justice Department said. Moyad Dannon’s sentence […]
(Local) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described three terror-related arrests made by police across Denmark on Thursday as “as serious as it gets.” A major police action on Thursday morning resulted in three arrests in Denmark, while a related [arrest] was made […]
(BBC) German authorities say they have made four arrests of suspected Hamas members linked to an alleged plot to attack Jewish sites. Prosecutors said the suspects intended to store weapons in Berlin for possible use in an attack. Danish authorities also said […]
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