(AP) A group of at least 40 migrants attempted to swim from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and threw stones at Spanish police, local media reported as top officials wrestled Wednesday with what to do with hundreds of unaccompanied […]
(AP) Poland’s prime minister insisted Tuesday that efforts by Middle Eastern migrants to enter the European Union country from neighboring Belarus are part of a plot by the Minsk regime to sow political instability in the EU. Mateusz Morawiecki spoke in Kuznica, […]
(AFP) France has detained an Afghan it helped evacuate from the country as part of an investigation into links with the Taliban, the government spokesman said on Tuesday. The man is believed to be close to another Afghan evacuee who is suspected […]
(Brussels Times) The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is not expected to lead to an increased risk of terrorist acts in Belgium in the short term, experts said on Monday. The risk is also limited in the longer term, as the Taliban will […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) On Monday, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Bernard Raymond Augustine, a U.S. citizen, of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS” or “the Islamic State”). The verdict […]
(AFP) Poland on Monday announced plans for a barbed-wire fence along its border with Belarus following an influx of migrants which countries in the region called a “hybrid attack” on the EU. Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said the fence would be 2.5 […]
(BBC) More than 800 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK on Saturday — setting a new record for crossings in a single day. The Home Office said nearly 200 people making the trip were also stopped by the French authorities. […]
(AFP) France has placed under surveillance an Afghan evacuated from Kabul who is suspected of links to the Taliban, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. About 1,300 Afghans have in recent days been evacuated by France via a military base in […]
(AFP) Over 100 migrants were rescued in the Channel on Saturday as they tried to reach Britain on makeshift boats, the French maritime prefecture said. A first boat carrying 38 migrants was reported in difficulty off Boulogne, the authorities said. The migrants […]
(AP) Poland’s prime minister vowed Thursday that his country would stand firm and block migrants, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have been seeking to enter from neighboring Belarus. Poland accuses the authoritarian government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of sending the […]
(AP) Faced with a potential new migration wave from Afghanistan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on European nations Thursday to shoulder the responsibility for Afghans fleeing the Taliban and warned that his country won’t become Europe’s “refugee warehouse.” In a televised […]
(Swiss Info) The government has decided against introducing state-run training courses for imams as a way of preventing the potential radicalisation of extremist preachers. A religious neutrality clause in the Swiss constitution and an international comparison led the government to its conclusion […]
(AP) Spanish officials sought to justify Tuesday their policy of sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco, while 28 human rights organizations wrote to the Spanish prime minister urging him to end it immediately. Hundreds of unaccompanied minors were among a surge […]
(AP) The U.S. Treasury Department is releasing a shipment of tiles that were intended for a northern Virginia mosque but were confiscated at Dulles International Airport after they were determined to have violated sanctions on Iran. Word of the release came through […]
(AFP) Barcelona staged a low-key ceremony on Tuesday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort four years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens of […]
(AP) Spain’s interior minister on Monday defended sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco in groups of 15, saying they “wanted to go home,” and denied accusations by rights groups that the returns breach international law. Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told the Cadena […]
(AP) Human rights groups on Saturday denounced Spain’s expulsion of unaccompanied children to Morocco, calling the deportations illegal and urging an immediate halt to the process. Amnesty International spokesman Ángel Gonzalo said the deportations of minors began Friday and continued Saturday. The […]
(Radio France) French constitutional watchdogs have cleared the path for a new law aimed at countering Islamist extremism. Officially known as the law comforting the principles of the republic, the draft law was approved in parliament in July. But around 100 MPs […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland has suspended repatriations to Afghanistan “until further notice owing to the changed situation in the country,” according to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). No new deportations of rejected asylum-seekers will be ordered, it said on Wednesday. Preparations for […]
(AFP) Ukraine has sent more than 38 tonnes of barbed wire to Lithuania as “humanitarian aid” as the EU country struggles to stem an influx of illegal migrants from neighbouring Belarus, authorities said on Thursday. In July, Lithuania’s military started to put […]
(BBC) An Iranian asylum seeker cleared of people smuggling has said he was made a “scapegoat” by British authorities. Fouad Kakaei, who steered a dinghy across the English Channel, was found not guilty at a second trial after appealing against his first […]
(Brussels Times) The police in Belgium have a shortage of ammunition for their anti-terrorist weapons (SCAR machine guns) that were purchased after the attacks in Zaventem and Brussels. Belgium’s police had concluded a contract with an American company for €1 million for […]
(BBC) A community radio station faces sanctions after broadcasting an Islamic chant said to contain “jihadi lyrics” and “promoting terrorism.” Sheffield-based Link FM was found to have committed two serious breaches of Ofcom’s broadcasting code by playing the “nasheed” chant twice in […]
(Deutsche Welle) A special committee of the Berlin state parliament released its comprehensive report into the December 2016 Christmas market terror attack on Monday. The attack at the Breitscheidplatz market was the most serious act of Islamist terrorism in Germany to date. The attacker, Anis […]
(BBC) An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail. Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby. Sheffield Crown Court heard […]
(AAP) A Brisbane father of three who allegedly called for a Muslim jihad in Syria to “cleanse the lands of tyrants and their collaborators” will remain behind bars. Omar Saghir, 39, has been charged with the preparation of foreign incursions as part […]
(Algemeiner) A top Canadian Jewish group expressed deep concern on Thursday regarding a speaker at a scheduled conference of Muslim students who has expressed violently antisemitic sentiments. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) described the invitation to cleric Tareq Al-Suwaidan […]
(BBC) A further 475 migrants crossed the English Channel in 15 small boats on Thursday, following a record 482 arrivals on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence earlier said an exercise on its firing range at Hythe had to be stopped on Wednesday […]
(AP) Spain’s Guardia Civil said Thursday it has arrested an Algerian man suspected of leading a gang that trafficked people from North Africa to Europe and sent fighters to jihadist groups in Libya. The Guardia Civil’s intelligence service detained the man on […]
(AAP) A Brisbane man has faced court charged with preparation for foreign incursions as part of a group involved in travelling to Syria to engage in hostile activity. Omar Saghir, 39, appeared briefly in the Brisbane Magistrates Court by video link on […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss justice authorities have indicted a Muslim preacher accused of racial discrimination and welfare fraud. Abu Ramadan will have to stand trial in a district court, the Bern cantonal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The controversial imam of a […]
(BBC) Small boats carrying 281 people were intercepted trying to cross the Channel on Tuesday. Border Force officials stopped seven boats, while French authorities intercepted one crossing carrying a further 20 migrants. So far this year more than 9,700 people have reached […]
(AP) German police have detained a Syrian man accused of war crimes for firing a rocket-propelled grenade into a group of civilians in Damascus in 2014, officials said Wednesday. The suspect, identified only as Mouafak Al D. in line with German privacy […]
(Kathimerini) The Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday issued a terse response to allegations from Turkey regarding the closure of 12 minority primary schools in the northeastern province of Thrace, which Ankara claims is a violation of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provisions […]
(AFP) An Austrian court has sentenced two men to jail over their involvement with the Islamic State group in Syria, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, following a high-profile trial in the country that had one of Europe’s largest per capita rates of IS […]
(ITV) ITV News understands that Hashem Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomb plotter, is refusing to co-operate with a deradicalisation programme in prison — and is being held at a separation centre away from other inmates over concerns he could radicalise other prisoners. […]
(AP) A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group and whose husband bought a Yazidi woman as a slave has been charged with membership in a terror group and being an accessory to a crime against humanity, […]
(Middle East Eye) Pro-Palestine groups have urged PayPal to cancel its partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which seeks to investigate how extremist and hate movements in the United States use financial platforms. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) said in a statement […]
(BBC) A security expert has been appointed to assess whether coronavirus has had any impact on how well the capital would cope with another major terror attack. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said extremists had used the lockdowns to “spread disinformation” and “radicalise […]
(Radio NZ) Helping Islamic State-linked Suhayra Aden to resettle into the community with her children will be the best outcome for her and New Zealand, the Islamic Women’s Council says. Aden, who has links to terrorist group Islamic State, is returning from […]
(AP) High-profile human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad on Monday lauded a German court for convicting a former Islamic State member of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity for her involvement in the enslavement of two […]
(AFP) Britain and France on Monday signed a new security deal aimed at protecting the public in the event of a terror attack in the Channel against a large vessel such as a passenger ferry, the British government said. The UK-France Maritime […]
(BBC) An attack on a woman who was slashed with a knife at Speakers’ Corner in London is being investigated by counter-terror police, the Met said. The 39-year-old needed hospital treatment after she was attacked in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon. The […]
(NZ Herald) An Isis “terrorist” bride and her two children will head to New Zealand from Turkey after the New Zealand government agreed to their return. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement on Suhayra Aden — who has been described as […]
(BBC) British Transport Police failed to share vital details with other emergency services after the Manchester Arena attack, a senior officer said. Assistant Chief Constable Sean O’Callaghan told the public inquiry into the atrocity how a declaration of a major incident was […]
(France 24) The French National Assembly on Friday approved a controversial “anti-separatism” bill despite strong criticisms from parliamentarians from the left and the right. The government argued the legislation was needed to bolster France’s secular system, but critics say it breaches religious […]
(AFP) Towns along France’s northern coast on Thursday limited takeaway sales of fuel to 10 litres per customer to curb illegal migration across the Channel, a local newspaper reported Thursday. “Buying or selling more than 10 litres of fuel — petrol or […]
(Euronews) Several female activists have been fined in France for wearing “burkinis” in a Grenoble swimming pool. Five women entered the city pool to bathe on Wednesday, causing the pool to be evacuated at the request of officials, French police said. Grenoble […]
(AFP) More than 230 migrants crossed the Moroccan border into Spain’s Melilla enclave before dawn on Thursday, in one of the largest influxes into this tiny North African territory in recent years. The incident occurred two months after an unprecedented 10,000 people […]
(BBC) A survivor of the Manchester attack who was standing just metres away from the bomber has described the blast as like “being hit by a 10 tonne truck.” Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down after the 2017 atrocity […]
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