(AFP) A Spanish court on Tuesday granted parole to one of the men convicted for his role in the 2017 attacks in Catalonia that claimed 16 lives. The special court responsible for terrorism cases ordered the conditional release of Said Ben Iazza, […]
(AP) The imam at a northern Virginia mosque has been charged with sexually assaulting a girl who had sought his help. Fairfax County police said Tuesday that the 36-year-old imam, a Maryland resident, served as imam for the last nine years at […]
(AP) Two United Nations agencies requested access Tuesday to asylum-seekers stranded at Belarus’s border with Poland and Lithuania, after four migrants were found dead in the area. The International Organization for Migration and the U.N. Refugee Agency called on the governments involved […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court has opened a probe after a car ploughed into a bar terrace, killing a diner, to establish whether the driver was motivated by “terrorism,” judicial sources said Tuesday. The incident, which was initially thought to be an […]
(Daily Sabah) President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday met with Turkish citizens and representatives of the Muslim community in the United States during his visit to the country to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The reception at the Manhattan […]
(BBC) The security services made “grave breaches of their duty” in failing to stop the Manchester Arena bomber and should face questions from the bereaved families, the attack inquiry has heard. Salman Abedi, 22, killed 22 people when he detonated a device […]
(NL Times) Aziz A. was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison on Monday for, among other things, leading a terrorist organization and preparing terrorist crimes. A., who suddenly popped up in De Balie debate center in Amsterdam in 2017, […]
(BBC) A doctor who poisoned his partner in a series of bogus exorcism ceremonies has been jailed for 14 and a half years. Hossam Metwally, 61, brought Kelly Wilson to the brink of death by injecting her with drugs during the sessions […]
(BBC) More than 400 migrants have been intercepted or rescued while crossing the Channel on small boats, the Home Office has confirmed. UK authorities dealt with 426 people in 14 incidents on Saturday. French officials dealt with 28 people in two incidents […]
(AFP) A major fire that broke out Sunday evening at the Vathy migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos was brought under control, the Greek Ministry of Migration said. “There is no danger for those who are still there because the […]
(Canadian Press) The Canadian Council of Imams says the Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia’s Central Nova riding must resign because his apology for Islamophobic media posts was an insincere attempt at damage control. Two weeks ago, Steven Cotter apologized on Facebook for […]
(JNS) A Muslim journalist was axed from her pending position as a TV host for a German science program after allegations came forward about her past anti-Semitic activity, including participation in the pro-Iran, anti-Israel Al-Quds march in Berlin in 2014. As reported […]
(AAP) A Sydney Islamic State member whose online martyrdom posts included Canberra’s Parliament House flying a black flag says he was naive and brainwashed. “I have completely renounced my membership of IS and any other terrorist organisation,” Youssef Uweinat told the NSW […]
(BBC) More than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in three days, the Home Office has confirmed. On Wednesday, 85 people made the crossing, followed by 222 on Thursday and 174 on Friday. The French authorities stopped 267 people from making […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 16-year-old accused of planning an “Islamist-motivated” attack on a synagogue in the western German city of Hagen was remanded in custody on Friday, the Düsseldorf prosecutors office said. The young Syrian national who lives in Hagen was detained Thursday. […]
(BBC) Terrorism experts were “stunned” to hear senior police officials were unaware of a major failure on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry has heard. Former Assistant Chief Constable Debbie Ford did not know Greater Manchester Police (GMP) had […]
(AFP) Ten men accused of involvement in the March 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people will face trial, Belgian federal prosecutors said Friday. Six of the suspects, including 32-year-old French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are currently on trial in France over […]
(BBC) British Transport Police officers’ response to the Manchester Arena attack has been described as “exemplary,” despite significant command failures. The officers were among the first to enter the foyer area, where the May 2017 suicide bombing killed 22 people. Policing experts […]
(Deutsche Welle) German police arrested four people Thursday, including a teenager, over a threat of an attack on a synagogue on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Hagen police said they made the arrests as a result of their investigation into the threat and […]
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors on Thursday said they had indicted four men on suspicion of supporting Islamist extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra. One of the men is also accused of joining the group and traveling to Syria to fight with the breakaway […]
(ITV) Shamima Begum has said she is “sorry” to the UK public for joining the Islamic State (IS) and says she would “rather die” than go back to the terrorist organisation. Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain from a Syrian camp where […]
(Brussels Times) Security services have informed the Belgian prison system about a right-wing extremist staff member and another with radical Islamic tendencies. Criminal proceedings have been started against both, according to reporting from Belga News Agency. Belgium’s federal Minister of Justice Vincent […]
(BBC) Police “failed” in their response to the Manchester Arena attack, terrorism experts have told the bombing inquiry. Three experts told the Manchester Arena inquiry there had been a “significant failure” in Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) emergency response to the attack, which […]
(Radio NZ) A 19-year-old accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims will keep his identity secret for now, after an appearance in North Shore District Court. The man was arrested in Auckland last week — just days after the LynnMall terror attack — […]
(BBC) Medical equipment could have been distributed “more effectively” to help those injured in the Manchester Arena bombing, a public inquiry has heard. An ambulance expert said items including triage packs and stretchers were “dumped” outside Victoria Station during the emergency response. […]
(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he […]
(AFP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Belarus to help migrants instead of trying to send them across the border into the European Union, branding these attempts “hybrid attacks.” On a visit to Poland, Merkel addressed the influx of migrants — mostly […]
(BBC) Critically injured casualties of the Manchester bombing would have been treated and moved more quickly if more specialist paramedics were sent to the scene, an expert has said. Only three paramedics were sent into the venue’s foyer area where the bomb […]
(New Arab) A US-based Muslim rights group is calling for the removal of a member of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum trustee board following “numerous Islamophobic statements” made during her participation in a webinar marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks. Board member […]
(BBC) All available firefighters should have been sent to the scene of the Manchester bombing sooner, an expert has told the inquiry into the atrocity. Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service has previously apologised after crews took more than two hours to […]
(BBC) The home secretary is expected to hold talks with her French counterpart about the number of migrants crossing the English Channel to the UK. Priti Patel and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin are both due to attend a meeting of G7 ministers […]
(BBC) A fire service was reluctant to take risks when responding to the Manchester Arena bombing, an independent expert has told the inquiry into the atrocity. Various failures meant it took firefighters more than two hours to get to the scene of […]
(BBC) The decision not to send more specialist paramedics into the Manchester Arena bomb scene has been defended by an ambulance service boss. The public inquiry has heard only three paramedics treated casualties in the City Room where the bomb was detonated. […]
(AFP) Swedish police said Monday they had arrested two women linked to the Islamic State group after they flew back from Syria, as media reported that one was being investigated for war crimes. Stockholm police spokesman Ola Osterling said the prosecutor leading […]
(Brussels Times) The Belgian Francophone broadcaster RTBF found recordings of an interview with terrorist Salah Abdeslam and two of his accomplices, immediately after the terror attacks in Paris, in its archives. On 14 November 2015, the morning after the terror attacks in […]
(AP) A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday. The attack […]
(Kathimerini) The creators of the giant puppet Little Amal, which is on a 5,000-mile journey from Turkey to Britain to highlight the plight of Syrian refugees and the stories of the millions of youngsters traveling alone, cancelled the procession of the figure […]
(NZ Herald) A man has been fatally shot by police officers and six shoppers have been injured — including three critically — in horrific scenes at a West Auckland supermarket this afternoon. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was a terrorist attack […]
(AP) A top European Union official condemned Belarus and expressed support for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia on Friday as a state of emergency took effect in areas of eastern Poland following a surge in illegal migration. EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell, […]
(CNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) on Thursday tweeted out — and criticized — a cartoon that had been done on Wednesday by Mike Luckovich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The cartoon showed two Muslim women in burkas. One was […]
(AAP) A radicalised ISIS member had plans to target Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral and the American embassy for terror attacks and “to conquer” a rural town like Orange, a court has been told. Isaac El Matari also spoke of travelling to Afghanistan […]
(Middle East Eye) The number of reported hate crimes targeting Muslims in the US fell by more than a third in 2020, according to newly published data by the FBI. According to the federal agency, the number of reported hate crimes against Muslims in […]
(Kathimerini) Police were required to intervene in Larissa on Tuesday after a small group of protesters reacted angrily to the procession of a giant puppet depicting a nine-year-old refugee girl through the Thessalian capital. Little Amal is traveling 8,000 kilometers from the […]
(AP) Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he killed a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and later opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers fatally shot him. Police said […]
(AAP) A used car salesman who became radicalised by ISIS so quickly he was prepared to fight and die in Kashmir for the terror group has left a judge concerned whether the Melbourne father is still a risk. Khaled Temssah, 32, has […]
(AP) Republican concerns over the screening process for thousands of Afghan refugees who stood side by side with Americans and are now being processed through Fort McCoy are unfounded “dog whistle crap,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Monday. Republicans, including former President […]
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors arrested a woman on Monday suspected of collecting money for the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group and helping with bank transfers to the Middle East. The suspect, identified only as Denise S., is thought to have been in contact with […]
(AP) Thirteen activists were detained Sunday in Poland for trying to destroy part of a barbed-wire barrier that Polish authorities have erected along the border with Belarus to stop migrants from crossing in. The activists said it was an act of protest […]
(AFP) Italy said it has taken in the largest number of Afghans fleeing the war-ravaged country following the Taliban takeover, vowing “not to abandon” vulnerable groups after airlift evacuations end. Western nations are scrambling to get their citizens out of Kabul airport […]
(AFP) Two Syrians received lengthy jail sentences in Germany on Thursday for their role in an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, a court said. Named only as Khedr A.K., 43, and Sami A.S., 36, the two men were […]
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