(AP) Serbian special police raided a makeshift camp near the border with Hungary and detained alleged people smugglers found there Wednesday along with weapons, money and about 200 migrants. The police operation by the Tisa River came two days after the governments […]
(AFP) Moroccan and Spanish police have dismantled a jihadist cell suspected of links to the Islamic State group, officials said Tuesday. The operation led to the arrest of 11 people in raids on Tuesday morning: nine in the Spanish enclave of Melilla […]
(BBC) The home secretary said she will change the law to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. Suella Braverman told the Conservative party conference on Tuesday she will prevent modern slavery laws being “abused” by people smugglers. The government needs […]
(BBC) A man who phoned 999 and made a grenade threat while citing the Islamic State group has received a community order. Amarik Gangar, 29, of Whitehall Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, made a number of calls to emergency services on the morning of […]
(AP) The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear two cases seeking to hold social media companies financially responsible for terrorist attacks. The cases are seen as an important test of the federal law that generally makes internet companies exempt from liability […]
(NL Times) Proper care for women who have undergone female genital mutilation is the most effective way to ensure they do not have their daughters circumcised, experts say. However, Dutch insurance does not always reimburse operations to reverse the circumcision and medical […]
(AFP) Greece’s coast guard on Sunday said a group of migrants in distress in the Ionian Sea had refused to be rescued, amid widespread reports of illegal pushbacks. The coast guard said the group of at least 56 asylum seekers were on […]
(Yle) The Kanta-Häme District Court has cleared a total of seven defendants — comprising police officers and security guards — of all charges in relation to an incident in which female asylum seekers claimed they were forced to remove their head coverings. […]
(BBC) Almost 500 people crossed the English Channel in 10 small boats on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said. It brings the total number of migrants making the journey from France this year to 32,841. The MoD said 499 people arrived on […]
(Dutch News) The Netherlands is working on plans to bring back 12 jihadi brides and 29 children from camps in northern Syria, RTL news reported on Wednesday. Three ministries — justice, foreign affairs and defence — have been working on the plans […]
(AFP) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had charged a German woman with war crimes and abetting genocide with the Islamic State group in Syria by “enslaving” a Yazidi woman. The authorities brought the charges, which also included crimes against humanity and […]
(Arab News) Daesh “Beatle” El Shafee El-Sheikh has avoided serving prison time in a US supermax prison after being moved to a lesser penitentiary following conviction, the Mirror reported. The terrorist, who grew up in Britain and had his citizenship stripped in […]
(AP) The Czech government has decided to renew checks at its border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration. The new measure becomes effective on Thursday at 27 border crossings between the two European Union countries that belong to Europe’s visa-free […]
(BBC) Up to half of the claims for criminal injury compensation made to the government following the Manchester Arena terror attack have been rejected. From 741 applications resolved by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), 331 did not result in compensation being […]
(BBC) Boats which are used for smuggling people into the UK and abandoned in the sea posed “enormous risks” to shipping, an MP said. Seafarers said rigid inflatables, which are about 8m (26ft), caused a hazard. Peter Aldous, Conservative MP for Waveney […]
(Kathimerini) Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis sent a letter of response to Channel 4 and Der Spiegel regarding the reports they published about the 38 migrants stranded on an islet in the Evros River on Greece’s border with Turkey. Greece, he noted, has […]
(AP) Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting during the Norwegian capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival, police said Monday. The total number of suspects is now at four. A 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran was arrested […]
(ANI) A famous UK YouTuber named Mohammed Hijab has come across as instigator-in-chief in violent incidents in the UK city of Leicester that saw targeted attacks on Hindu community members, Global Order reported. The cycle of violence was triggered last month after […]
(BBC) More than 1,100 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats in a single day, for the second time this month. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that 21 boats carrying 1,150 people were intercepted on Thursday, the third highest […]
(AFP) Norwegian police said on Friday they had issued an international arrest warrant for a second suspect over a shooting in June that killed two people near a gay bar in central Oslo. Police initially told a press conference they were seeking, […]
(AFP) The trial for the 2016 Brussels attacks, due to start next month, has been delayed for several weeks to replace controversial glass boxes intended for the accused, the court said Friday. The court of assizes said an October 10 session to […]
(Kathimerini) Guards at Greece’s northeastern land border with Turkey prevented some 1,500 migrants from entering the country on Wednesday, the country’s minister for citizens’ protection said, describing the push for entry as an “organized plan.” “There obviously exists some kind of organized […]
(Middle East Eye) New York Congressman Lee Zeldin has come under fire from a leading Muslim rights organisation after attacking the Muslim American official tapped to lead a probe into a complaint of antisemitism at a university in New York City. Saly […]
(AFP) French police have busted a major people-smuggling ring that has been sending migrants to Britain in dinghies, seizing more than a dozen boats and 700 life jackets in a raid, French officials said Thursday. The ring, run by Iraqi Kurdish migrants, […]
(AP) A teenager accused of planning an Islamist-motivated attack in Germany was arrested Thursday, the federal prosecutor’s office said. The dual German-Kosovar citizen detained in the western town of Iserlohn allegedly was under the influence of an Islamic State group follower who […]
(BBC) More than 30,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, government figures have shown. Among the latest arrivals at Dungeness in Kent were children wrapped in blankets and people in winter coats. Several groups of people were […]
(Local) Sweden’s new immigrant party, Nyans, has won a council seat in the port city of Landskrona, the first elected position it has won since it was founded in 2019. Ever since the September 11 election, it has been touch and go […]
(Middle East Eye) American Muslims are just as likely as any other faith group to serve in the US military, a new poll by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (Ispu) has found. More specifically, white Muslims are more likely than […]
(BBC) An imam who raped a schoolgirl in a mosque has been unconditionally discharged. Khandaker Rahman, 67, from Cwmdu, Swansea, was found to have committed the crimes by a jury at Swansea Crown Court in June, after a trial of facts, as […]
(JNS) U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) stated in an interview with the Al Jazeera network on Sept. 16 that she does not see how a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can work. She further claimed that Israel has an “apartheid system” […]
(Egypt Today) The Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) stripped on Sunday renowned global Muslim Brotherhood figure Ibrahim El-Zayat, brother-in-law of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Turkey, of his posts in the center, according to media reports. This […]
(AFP) A Swiss woman was given a nine-year jail term on Monday for slashing two people in the name of the Islamic State group but her sentence was suspended so she can undergo psychiatric treatment. The criminal court judges found the woman, […]
(AP) Six men with alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in Vienna in 2020 will go on trial next month, a court in the Austrian capital said Monday. Four people were killed […]
(NL Times) Three years after the introduction of the ban on face-covering clothing — commonly referred to as the burka ban — the Amsterdam city council is calling on parliament to scrap the ban as soon as possible. Mayor Femke Halsema promised […]
(Kathimerini) Athens accused Ankara of trying to intervene in its domestic affairs after Turkey’s Foreign Ministry called on Greece to investigate threats received by a Muslim member of Greek Parliament and expressing support for the country’s “Turkish minority.” Huseyin Zeybek, a lawmaker […]
(Brussels Times) Brussels’ Chamber of Indictment has requested the release of Smaïl and Ibrahim Farisi, who were both arrested in the run-up to the Brussels 2016 terror attacks trial. On Wednesday, Smaïl Farisi was arrested along with his brother Ibrahim after being […]
(AP) A group of 142 migrants was detained near North Macedonia’s southern border with Greece early Thursday, authorities said. A police statement said the detainees were mostly from Syria and Pakistan, and had entered from Greece. They were taken to a shelter […]
(BBC) A Tory councillor who retweeted claims that mosques had “secret arsenals” and immigration was “cultural suicide” has been expelled from the party. Alanna Vine, who represents Bramhall North on Stockport Council, was suspended as part of an investigation into her Twitter […]
(AFP) A video showing how an Islamist extremist ploughed his truck into a crowd in Nice killing 86 people while France was celebrating its national day sparked anguish and horror at the attack trial on Thursday. Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, was killed […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has ruled that an Iraqi convicted only of association with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State groups will not be imprisoned. The decision came in response to an appeal by the attorney general. In July 2021, the […]
(Radio NZ) Ahamed Samsudeen’s friends called him the “lone wolf” attacker and knew he was under heavy surveillance, an Auckland bar owner claims. Eight people were injured at Countdown in LynnMall last September before Ahamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police who […]
(Radio France) The wife of a terrorist who helped to murder dozens of people at Paris’s Bataclan concert hall in 2015 has been repatriated from Syria to France along with her three children. Kahina El H, who was married to suicide bomber […]
(BBC) The number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year has now exceeded the total for the whole of 2021. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said 601 migrants made the crossing on Monday in […]
(Brussels Times) Following the preliminary hearing of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks trial in Brussels, the counsel for one of the accused, Smaïl Farisi, noted that a request for release from his client would need to be examined soon. The Brussels […]
(AFP) French jihadist Salah Abdeslam, already jailed for his role in the 2015 Paris attacks, refused to take the stand Monday on the first day of the trial for the 2016 suicide bombings in Brussels. He was one of the nine alleged […]
(Al-Jazeera) Interest in Britain’s new monarch King Charles III has spiked since he ascended the throne on Saturday, following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. While the 73-year-old has been in the public eye for decades, much of the attention […]
(Kathimerini) Greece’s Foreign Ministry has released a statement countering Turkish claims that it imposes appointed religious leaders, or muftis, on the Muslim minority in the northeastern province of Thrace instead of letting them elect their own. “The Turkish side is attempting, once […]
(AFP) A group of Syrian refugees in Turkey is planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union, organisers said Saturday. Plans are being drawn up online via a Telegram channel, set up six days ago and followed by almost 70,000 […]
(Brussels Times) Ibrahim Farisi, whose brother Smail was held on Wednesday, has now also been arrested in the run-up to the trial over the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels and Zaventem, according to media reports confirmed by his lawyer. Smail […]
(AFP) A knife-wielding man wounded two people in a southern German town on Thursday before being fatally shot by police who said they were investigating a possible “Islamist or terrorist context.” The 30-year-old man attacked several passers-by “with at least one knife,” […]
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