(AP) A migrant woman was accidentally shot and killed by police in North Macedonia during a struggle that broke out Wednesday as an officer tried to arrest a suspected smuggler, authorities said. The fatal shooting occurred during an inspection of two vehicles […]
(AFP) Italian minister Francesco Lollobrigida, one of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s closest allies, sparked outrage Tuesday by warning against the “ethnic replacement” of Italians by migrants. “We cannot resign ourselves to the idea of ethnic replacement: Italians have fewer children, so let’s […]
(AFP) Belgium on Tuesday said it had formally asked Iran to repatriate jailed aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele from Tehran, after a disputed prisoner exchange treaty entered into force. Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said she had informed her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian […]
(JNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has compared boycotts of Israel and of Nazi Germany, was slated to deliver opening remarks at a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom event on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims, […]
(ITV) The imam of a Birmingham mosque has condemned violence against police over the weekend in the city. West Midlands Police officers were undertaking a joint operation with Birmingham City Council investigating illegal street trading when they faced backlash. A number of missiles […]
(Dutch News) The public prosecution department has asked Pakistan to cooperate in its efforts to try a 37-year-old man for offering a €21,000 reward for the murder of far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders five years ago. The department has asked the Pakistan […]
(Swiss Info) A 25-year-old man, already convicted in Switzerland for supporting banned Islamic terrorist groups, is now accused of being a recruiter, propagandist and fundraiser for Islamic State and al-Qaeda. The Office for the Attorney General (OAG) announced further charges on Monday […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is pursuing a hate speech case against 54-year-old Edwin Wagensveld of the anti-Islam group Pegida who tore up a Koran on camera near the parliament building in The Hague. The Dutch police will question the […]
(NL Times) The Rotterdam District Court sentenced four Dutch women with ties to ISIS to prison terms ranging from 30 to 36 months, with 12 to 15 months of probation. They were found guilty of participating in the terrorist organization, and engaging […]
(Brussels Times) As the trial of the 2016 terror attacks in Brussels progresses, the accused have refused to offer their sincere apologies to the victims and provided little clarification when questioned by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and lawyers on Thursday afternoon. On […]
(ERR) Individuals involved in terrorist activities including those with links to groups such as Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood have become increasingly interested in Estonia’s e-residency program, the Internal Security Service (ISS) reports. The ISS, also known by […]
(AFP) Nine Afghans were on trial in France over allegations of attempting to smuggle migrants across the Channel to Britain in 2021. The case is the latest as Britain and France seek to clamp down on illegal boat crossings into the United […]
(Canadian Press) Muslim groups are speaking out against the Quebec government’s intention to ban prayer spaces in public schools, saying they will monitor how the Education Department enforces its new rules. In response to reports that at least two Montreal-area schools had […]
(Arab News) Nineteen people suspected of terrorist activity entered the UK via small boats in the English Channel last year, British security services have warned. The suspects, identified via routine fingerprinting, include five Iraqis, five Iranians, four Afghans, four Somalis and one […]
(Local) A 15-year-old boy is being held in connection with a suspected terror plot in Sweden. Another three men also remain in custody. Remand hearings were held at Eskilstuna District Court after five men were seized in raids in the cities of […]
(Sky News) Suella Braverman has been urged to withdraw “divisive” comments around child sexual exploitation (CSE) by dozens of medical bodies, businesses and Muslim community organisations, Sky News can reveal. A number of Muslim organisations across the country have written to Rishi […]
(Arab News) A British Muslim woman returning home to the UK from a holiday in Turkey claimed she was detained by police because she has a similar name as Daesh bride Shamima Begum. Shamina Begum, who was returning to Manchester Airport, said […]
(RTÉ) The British government has won an appeal against a tribunal’s conclusion that a UK entry ban could not be imposed on an Irish former soldier convicted of membership of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group. Lisa Smith, 41, [a] former […]
(AP) Lithuania is seeking up to 120 million euros in compensation from Belarus, accusing its eastern neighbor of orchestrating the immigration of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East. Since 2021, when the European Union imposed sanctions on Belarus […]
(AFP) Swedish police said Thursday they had appealed a court ruling which overturned a police decision to block two gatherings where protesters had planned to burn the Koran. “The Police Authority believes that the principles of the issue are important and it […]
(AP) Thirty-five migrants were found in the trailer of a truck in southern Austria after the vehicle was damaged and an employee at a repair workshop heard noises from inside, police said Thursday. The driver was arrested. The Polish-registered vehicle drove the […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s education minister said Wednesday it will soon be forbidden to have prayer rooms in the province’s public schools. Bernard Drainville told reporters in Quebec City he has learned of at least two Montreal-area schools that have permitted students to […]
(AAP) More than seven years after the brutal murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng, the man who supplied the revolver to the teen terrorist shooter is now guilty. Mr Cheng’s death shocked the nation and led police to arrest, charge and then […]
(AFP) French junior minister Marlene Schiappa, who made headlines this week for a clothed Playboy photoshoot, is at the centre of accusations of alleged misuse of cash from an anti-radicalism fund set up after the beheading of a teacher. Schiappa, whose ministerial […]
(AP) A Spanish judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a Moroccan man held in the January slaying of a church officer in the southern city of Algeciras. Authorities identified the alleged assailant in the Jan. 26 machete attack as 25-year-old Yassine […]
(AFP) France’s domestic intelligence service on Tuesday arrested a 15-year-old, suspected of preparing an attack in the name of Islamic State ideology, a source close to the case told AFP. The DGSI intelligence service became aware of the teenager because “he was […]
(Local) Swedish police were wrong to reject the burning of the Quran outside the embassies of Turkey and Iraq on two occasions earlier this year, an administrative court has ruled. The decision not to grant a permit to the planned rallies in […]
(Brussels Times) The four terror suspects — three men and a woman — who were arrested in the Belgian cities of Antwerp, Brussels and Eupen last week for allegedly planning an attack against Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever will remain in custody, […]
(AFP) The trial of three French men and two foreigners opened in Paris on Monday for allegedly planning a jihadist attack near France’s presidential palace, the Elysee. The five, two of whom were minors at the time of the suspected plot, are […]
(AFP) France’s football federation has told referees they must not pause matches to allow Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan, media reports said Friday. Unlike England’s Premier League which allows it, the practice does not comply with the French Football […]
(Brussels Times) Individuals arrested earlier this week as part of a terror investigation reportedly were planning on assassinating the Mayor of Antwerp Bart De Wever and police officers. Eight people were arrested on Monday night in Brussels, Antwerp and Eupen as part of an […]
(AAP) Terrorists left to rot in Australian jails long after their prison sentences expire could soon be offered a major reprieve. The national security watchdog has recommended the government scrap the power to detain terrorists on so-called continuing detention orders. The orders […]
(Canadian Press) Several members of the non-profit sector, including the United Way and Imagine Canada, are calling on the federal government to take immediate steps to shield Muslim-led charities from potentially discriminatory federal audits. More than a dozen organizations issued a statement […]
(Kathimerini) Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday a fence being constructed at Greece’s northeastern border region of Evros will be completed “with or without European money.” “Tomorrow I will be in Evros and I will have the opportunity to sign the […]
(Arab News) Britain should do more to monitor Islamic groups and schools, crack down on forced marriages and help people to leave oppressive religious groups, a government consultation is reported to recommend. The report, to be released within weeks, is set to […]
(AFP) Greece is questioning eight additional suspects from Pakistan over an alleged plot to carry out anti-Semitic attacks in Athens, a police source said Thursday. “The investigation to determine if additional persons are involved is ongoing,” the police source told AFP. The […]
(AFP) Iran’s embassy in Greece on Wednesday denied any connection to an alleged plot for anti-Semitic attacks in Athens using Pakistanis of Iranian origin. “The embassy of the Republic of Iran strongly denies the rumours spread by Zionist sources and their baseless […]
(AFP) Seven people were imprisoned in Belgium Wednesday in two investigations into “possible terrorist attacks,” the federal prosecutor’s office said. The seven, five Belgians as well as a Turk and a Bulgarian, were charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist […]
(AP) A Swedish court on Wednesday found a 35-year-old woman guilty of war crimes for posting photos of herself with severed heads that were on display in a Syrian city in 2014. Fatosh Ibrahim, who pleaded not guilty, was sentenced to three […]
(AFP) Belgium on Tuesday launched an investigation into how a Syrian man arrested last week on suspicion of carrying out war crimes for the Islamic State group was granted refugee status. The 38-year-old, who left Syria in 2015, was detained over the […]
(Kathimerini) Authorities in the Evia town of Halkida are investigating the attempted gang rape of an 11-year-old resident of a migrant and refugee camp in Ritsona, northeast of the capital. According to state broadcaster ERT, the young Somali refugee told investigators that […]
(AFP) Norway said Tuesday it was repatriating from Syria two sisters who went there as teenagers as well as their three children, citing abysmal conditions in the refugee camp where they were housed. “The living conditions in the camps are extremely bad […]
(Brussels Times) In the trial of the March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Monday (tomorrow) will mark the opening of the final week of victim testimonies before the Brussels Court of Assizes. Monday will start with the testimony of two sisters of […]
(Brussels Times) The Director General of Belgium’s Federal Judicial Police Eric Snoeck stated on Friday that the terrorist threat posed to Belgium “has not disappeared completely,” seven years after the terror attacks that rocked the capital in 2016. Speaking on [a ] […]
(Local) The Danish supreme court, Højesteret, has overruled a 2020 decision to revoke the citizenship of a Danish-Iranian woman who travelled to Syria in support of the Islamic State (Isis) terror group. The Ministry for Immigration and Integration failed to take into […]
(AP) German authorities have arrested a Syrian man accused of belonging to a unit of the Islamic State group in his homeland that kidnapped and killed opponents, prosecutors said Wednesday. The man, identified only as Asmael K. in line with German privacy […]
(Brussels Times) The victims of the terror attacks that rocked Belgium on this day seven years ago are being remembered with moments of reflection on Wednesday, including at the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels and at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, where the […]
(ITV) Part of London’s West End was decked out for the first time tonight with lights to celebrate the start of Ramadan. The illuminating idea is run by the non-profit organisation Ramadan Lights UK who previously took the lights to Henlys Corner […]
(NL Times) Two people will face a criminal court hearing on accusations that they tried to get others to commit acts of violence against a secondary school teacher for his use of a cartoon in support of the controversial French satire magazine, […]
(IranWire) The UK government vowed to tackle the Islamic Republic of Iran’s “vile” activities in the country after a media investigation exposed hate speech among speakers at a British charity run by a representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Analysis of the […]
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