(NY Daily News) The teen accused of fatally stabbing a gay black man during a standoff at a Brooklyn gas station claimed to be Muslim, though his family says he’s Christian. A conflicting portrait of Dmitriy Popov emerged Monday as the 17-year-old, […]
(Reuters) A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Bosnia on suspicion of having links with Islamic State militants and of planning to attack Muslims from other traditions and one of their mosques, prosecutors said on Monday. The man from the central town […]
(BBC) The number of people crossing the English Channel in small boats has passed 15,000 for the year so far. The figure was reached as the government announced a partnership with social media companies aimed at stopping smuggling gangs advertising. The voluntary […]
(NY Post) The 17-year-old who fatally stabbed dancer O’Shae Sibley at a Mobil station in Coney Island was slapped with murder and murder as a hate crime charges over “anti-gay” and “anti-black” statements, officials announced at a press conference Saturday. With a group of Muslim […]
(Reuters) Denmark is tightening border controls to boost domestic security and prevent unwanted individuals from entering the country after recent Koran burnings, the government said, following a similar decision by Sweden this week. Authorities fear revenge attacks after anti-Islam activists in Denmark […]
(BBC) A teenager has been charged with seven terrorism offences. Amir El-Harith,18, from Smethwick, West Midlands, was arrested on Wednesday and charged the next day. Among the accusations are sharing terrorist publications, encouraging terrorism, and having information likely to be useful for […]
(NY Daily News) A teen wanted for fatally stabbing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station was busted Friday, police said. The 17-year-old suspect was expected to be charged as a juvenile with murder as a hate crime. His name […]
(AP) Greece’s government met on Friday to try to improve coordination on migration as a group of 102 migrants crossed by land from Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean country saw a spike in arrivals by sea. The ministers for merchant […]
(KNTV) Religious freedom or officer safety? That’s the question at the heart of a dispute between the Bay Area’s Muslim community and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. The issue at hand began when a deputy forcibly removed a religious headwear, a […]
(GB News) More and more youngsters are being radicalised online, with the head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing warning that their extremism is turning into “real threats of violence on our streets.” Radicalised teenagers have increased five-fold in the past four years, […]
(AP) An alleged former member of a Syrian pro-government militia has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity related to the abuse and torture of civilians in the early years of his country’s civil war, prosecutors said Thursday. The […]
(Dutch News) An unknown number of Dutch nationals may have ended up on a US list of terrorism suspects even though they are not under suspicion of extremism in the Netherlands, according to research by investigative website Follow the Money. The problem […]
(AP) Greek authorities rescued 40 migrants from a sinking dinghy in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday and charged two of them with causing a shipwreck and endangering lives for allegedly scuttling the flimsy vessel as a coast guard boat approached. A coast […]
(AFP) Sweden’s government said Tuesday it intended to “intensify” border controls due to a worsened security situation in the wake of several protests involving desecrations of the Koran. Tensions have flared between Sweden and Muslim countries following several protests involving public desecrations […]
(Balkan Insight) Serbian police deployed 820 officers on Tuesday in a large-scale operation targeting people-smugglers in the area near the border with EU member state Hungary. Police detained 13 people suspected of criminal activities, while 27 will be charged with misdemeanours. Officers […]
(NY Post) A man stabbed to death in a suspected anti-gay attack in Brooklyn was remembered as a talented, promising dancer Monday — as law enforcement sources said a 17-year-old high school student is being eyed in the crime. O’Shae Sibley, 28, […]
(NY Daily News) A professional dancer voguing at a Brooklyn gas station after a trip to the Jersey Shore with his friends was stabbed to death during a confrontation Saturday night with a group of Muslim men who said the victim’s impromptu […]
(Global News) A Toronto man has been arrested and charged with terrorism offences for allegedly helping to recruit and fundraise for the Islamic State, the RCMP said Friday. The charges against Khalilullah Yousuf come months after he was charged with similar offences […]
(Times Union) A federal judge has ordered the “compassionate release” from federal prison of three people whom she described as “hapless” and “easily manipulated” petty criminals who were convicted 14 years ago in a controversial terrorist plot in which the FBI relied […]
(AP) The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop earlier this month had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, but it was determined […]
(Global News) A Canadian arrested for terrorism after landing in the United Kingdom last week allegedly used social media to disseminate the ideological materials of a group banned by the British government. Khaled Hussein, a 28-year-old Edmonton resident, has been charged with […]
(Local) Police in Sweden have received yet another application to hold a Quran-burning protest, with the event this time to be held outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm. The request has come from a 31-year-old man, who intends to set fire [to] […]
(Arab News) The UK’s domestic intelligence agency thwarted a plot by an Islamist extremist to attack a music festival attended by about 90,000 people every year, Mail Online reported. In 2022, a tipoff led [MI5] officers to arrest a 15-year-old boy suspected […]
(AFP) As riots raged around France earlier this month, infrastructure for next year’s Paris Olympics risked becoming engulfed in the violence, adding a fresh worry for organisers who face a head-spinning list of security challenges one year before the Games start. Surveillance […]
(ABC-Australia) Two Queensland police officers have told a coronial inquest they feared for their lives when Raghe Mohamed Abdi ran at them with a knife on a busy highway. The 22-year-old was shot and killed by police in December 2020 on the […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A Muslim woman has alleged she was forced to take off her hijab after being arrested by a University of Kentucky police officer and taken to the Fayette County Detention Center. Now a national civil rights organization is calling […]
(AP) Croatian police have detained nine people suspected of smuggling migrants into the European Union country from neighboring Serbia, a police statement said on Friday. The suspects joined forces with unidentified persons in Serbia to organize illegal entry over the Danube River […]
(AP) The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota’s largest city, […]
(ABC-Australia) A terrorism expert has told an inquest a Muslim man who killed a Brisbane couple, before being shot dead by police, was “absolutely radicalised” but he could not definitively determine the murders were motivated by extremist views. The deputy state coroner […]
(AAP) On his day off, the counter-terrorism case officer for Raghe Abdi was out Christmas shopping when he received a phone call. Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Danni McCann was notified that a man who had been shot dead by police on a […]
(Morocco World News) Morocco’s Central Bureau of Investigations (BCIJ) has announced the arrest of an ISIS suspect in the city of Nador today. The ISIS suspect had been operating between Spain and Morocco, according to a statement from the General Directorate of […]
(Daily Caller) Border Patrol has arrested 143 illegal migrants on the terror watchlist in fiscal year 2023, surpassing 2022’s total by roughly 25%, according to federal data updated Tuesday. In all of fiscal year 2022, Border Patrol nabbed 98 individuals whose names […]
(AFP) Swedish police said Wednesday they had granted a permit for a protest outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, with media reporting the organisers planned to burn the Muslim holy book. The protest, scheduled for Thursday, comes just weeks after a man […]
(AAP) Attacked by a terrorist in Somalia, Mohammed Abdi sought protection and relocated to Australia. Years later his son Raghe Abdi was shot dead by police on a highway south of Brisbane in what was described as a “terrorism event.” Investigations suggested […]
(Canadian Press) British police have arrested a Canadian man on suspicion of being a member of a terrorism group. The Metropolitan Police in London, England, say counterterrorism detectives arrested a 28-year-old Canadian national at Heathrow Airport shortly after noon. They say the […]
(National-UAE) British radical cleric Anjem Choudary has been arrested by police investigating suspected terrorism offences. Police arrested the 56-year-old, from East London, on Monday following dawn raids at three properties in the area. A second man, who had just landed in the […]
(KMGH) A young Castle Rock man has been charged with terrorism-related crimes after attempting to board an international flight last week to join the Islamic State (ISIS) and serve as one of its fighters in Iraq, according to a complaint filed in […]
(Brisbane Times) Minutes before he is shot dead on the side of the Logan Motorway, two Queensland police officers approach Raghe Mohamed Abdi. It’s 6.12am on December 17, 2020. Hours earlier, police had found the bodies of 87-year-old Maurice and 86-year-old Zoe […]
(European Conservative) Over 2,300 people have been arrested in connection with the multiple-day riots that shook France earlier this month following the fatal shooting of a teen named Nahel in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Many have speculated about a connection between […]
(AP) Cyprus police investigations support claims by Israel’s Mossad spy service that an Iranian-backed hit squad planned to kill Israelis and other Jews in the east Mediterranean island nation, an official said Friday. The security official told the Associated Press that Cypriot […]
(AFP) Swedish police on Friday said they had granted a permit for a protest which would include burning holy texts outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, sparking condemnation from Israel and Jewish organisations. The controversial protest, scheduled for Saturday, comes weeks after […]
(Reuters) An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday. The young man was arrested in southern Poland in June and had collected information and […]
(BBC) Two men from the West Midlands have been charged with terrorism offences. Roshman Azad Wali Saeed, 28, from Birmingham, is charged with two counts of distributing terrorist publications. Tshko Ahmad Mohamad, 32, from West Bromwich, meanwhile is accused of fundraising for […]
(BBC) Two men from the West Midlands have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences. An 18-year-old from Birmingham and a 22-year-old from West Bromwich were detained on Wednesday during a pre-planned operation. They were held in connection with disseminating terrorism material […]
(Tampa Bay Times) A Tampa man who pledged his allegiance to Islamic militants and planned attacks in the Tampa Bay area was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in federal prison. Muhammed Momtaz AlAzhari, 26, pleaded guilty in February to attempting to provide […]
(BBC) Emergency “grab bags” have been installed around York city centre for use in the event of a terrorist attack. York council said the bags contained “information and equipment that will aid the early response” before emergency services arrive at the scene. […]
(AP) Widespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods — and given a new platform to the increasingly emboldened far right. The far right’s anti-immigration […]
(BBC) Emergency services have taken part in joint training exercises to test its response to a terror attack or mass-casualty incidents. It comes after a public inquiry found a catalogue of failings by the emergency response to the aftermath of the Manchester […]
(AFP) A key suspect in the 2021 drowning deaths of at least 27 people trying [to] cross the Channel in a dinghy has been charged in France, a judiciary source said Monday. He was extradited on Friday by Britain, where he had […]
(AFP) In her first speech in parliament as France’s riots ebbed this week, far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the government of turning the country into a “hell” that she had foreseen. “The reality is that you didn’t want to hear any […]
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