(Breitbart) The manager of a suspected radical mosque, along with three others, was arrested this week in northern France over allegations of fraud and embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of euros of foreign cash. The manager of the Al Houda mosque in […]
(AP) An off-duty police officer and two other passengers on a regional train in Germany overpowered [an] Iraq-born man who wounded five people including the officer with a knife on Friday, authorities said. A top law enforcement official said the 31-year-old attacker […]
(AFP) Police have smashed a group believed to have smuggled tens of thousands of Syrians with two of them found suffocated in a van last year, Austria’s interior ministry announced on Thursday. A total of 205 people suspected to be linked to […]
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(Breitbart) Spanish authorities have arrested and placed under investigation five young men, all linked to a radical party in Pakistan, who are believed to have glorified terrorist attacks, including the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. All five of the young men are […]
(AFP) The UK’s National Crime Agency announced Wednesday it had arrested the suspected leader of an international criminal operation supplying small boats to people smugglers taking migrants across the Channel. The numbers of migrants crossing the busy shipping lane from northern France […]
(CBC) Canada’s spies could be doing a better job of investigating extremism in the prison system, says an internal report. The document, obtained through an access to information request, emerged from a behind-the-scenes review of how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the […]
(AP) Cyprus police on Friday detained two men on suspicion of helping two dozen Syrian asylum-seekers reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. A court ordered the two men — aged 30 and 28 — held in police […]
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(Fox) Republican Rep. Jim Jordan was cut off and left seemingly stunned while grilling Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on whether 42 illegal immigrants on the terror watch list have been released into the United States. “Forty-two illegal immigrants were encountered at […]
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(AP) A man was arrested in Denmark on Wednesday on suspicion of violating anti-terrorism laws by allegedly promoting the Islamic State group on social media. Police said domestic security agency PET took part in the operation, but they did not give further […]
(Local) Police in western Sweden have rejected an appeal by the Danish extremist Rasmus Paludan against a decision to deny him permission for a Koran-burning protest in Borås. “Rasmus Paludan has a rhetoric which is intended to create disorder and chaos,” Emelie […]
(Algemeiner) Muslim activists in Germany who chanted antisemitic slogans at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin last Saturday were motivated not by a personal connection to the conflict, but by their exposure to bigoted religious and media messages, a leading Middle Eastern expert on […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia say a patrol discovered 18 migrants in the south of the country and arrested the driver after a brief chase. A police statement released Monday said the 18 migrants, 14 Syrians and 4 Pakistanis, were discovered late […]
(Algemeiner) Germany’s interior minister denounced pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin Saturday, who chanted antisemitic and anti-Israel slogans, attacked police officers and harassed journalists. “There is no place in our society for antisemitism,” Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser tweeted on Sunday. […]
(Local) Norwegian police used tear gas against several people during a Koran-burning demonstration on Saturday afternoon, after hundreds of counter-demonstrators clashed with police in the town of Sandefjord. The anti-Muslim organisation “Sian” held the demonstration in Sandefjord, which is about 90 kilometres […]
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(AFP) Riots across Sweden sparked by a notorious anti-immigrant provocateur threatening to tour the country burning the Koran has challenged the country’s limits to free speech. Police clashed with groups of mostly masked young men in several towns and cities after the […]
(Washington Examiner) Forty-two people on the U.S. government’s terror watch list have been arrested attempting to enter the United States illegally since President Joe Biden took office, according to federal data obtained by the Washington Examiner. The 42 arrests happened across the […]
(Fox) The White House on Monday said encounters with suspected terrorists at the U.S. southern border are “uncommon,” after 23 individuals on the terror watchlist were apprehended in 2021. Fox News first reported on Monday that U.S. Border Patrol apprehended at least […]
(Fox) Border Patrol apprehended at least 23 people coming across the southern border whose names are on the terror watchlist in 2021, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by Fox News. Between Jan. 20 and Dec. 27, 2021, there […]
(AP) Swedish police said Monday that the riots that have shaken several cities and towns in the Nordic country are extremely serious crimes against society and suspect some protesters are linked to criminal gangs that intentionally target police. Sweden, a nation of […]
(AP) A migrant was killed by gunfire at the Greece-Turkey border while she and several others attempted to cross a river separating the two countries, Greek police said Sunday. It wasn’t immediately clear who fired the shot that killed the woman on […]
(AP) Swedish police said they fired warning shots during a riot in an eastern city to disperse protesters angry about demonstrations over the past several days by a Danish anti-Islam group in Sweden. Three people were slightly injured during the clashes. A […]
(AP) Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. Scuffles and unrest were reported […]
(AFP) Counter-protesters demonstrating against a far-right group’s intention to burn a Koran in Orebro in central Sweden clashed with police on Friday, leaving nine police officers injured, authorities said. Police said in a statement that nine officers were injured in all. Their […]
(AFP) Three police officers had to be taken to hospital after a riot broke out in a Swedish town where a demonstration that included a Koran burning was planned, police said Thursday. While two of the officers had minor injuries, the state […]
(Kathimerini) Police on Rhodes announced on Monday that they arrested four foreigners suspected of involvement in a criminal organization that trafficked migrants to the island. Those arrested come from Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. The group allegedly collected migrants from beaches and transported […]
(AP) One of two men accused of impersonating federal agents and giving actual Secret Service agents gifts and free apartments in Washington has claimed to have ties to Pakistani intelligence and had visas showing travel to Pakistan and Iran, federal prosecutors said […]
(CNN) The FBI arrested two men in Washington, DC, Wednesday for allegedly impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years, giving expensive gifts to federal agents in DC, providing them apartments and offering to purchase a weapon for a […]
(AP) German investigators on Wednesday arrested a Syrian man accused of war crimes for allegedly torturing captives while he was with the Islamic State group in Syria in 2014. Federal prosecutors said the man, identified only as Raed E. in line with […]
(ABC) Already missing their flight to Canada, Zainab Merchant held her then-6-month-old baby inside a cold room in an airport in September of 2016 while she waited for her husband’s screening to be over after her family was detained for a random […]
(AP) Two people were arrested on suspicion of migrant smuggling and endangering lives for steering a sailboat carrying 68 others that ran into trouble off Greece’s western coast last week, the coast guard said Tuesday. The coast guard said the two — […]
(Radio France) What did it sound like in the Bataclan concert hall when three terrorists machine-gunned the crowd at a rock concert on 13 November 2015? And what did it look like once the injured had been taken out, leaving only those […]
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(WMTW) Federal prosecutors are offering new details about an alleged terrorist plot involving a Waterville, Maine, teenager arrested a month ago, and two unidentified juveniles in Illinois and Kentucky. A five-page declaration from Maine-based FBI agent Garret[t] Drew, unsealed Friday, depicts 18-year-old […]
(Courthouse News) In 2017, Imam Abdirahman Aden Kariye returned to the United States from Saudi Arabia after participating in the hajj — the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. When he entered the United States at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Customs and Border Protection agents […]
(NY1) Fresh off a meeting with Mayor Eric Adams and Muslim community leaders, longtime advocate Dr. Debbie Almontaser joined Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Wednesday to discuss NYPD deputy commissioner John Miller’s denial of police wrongdoing during the post-9/11 surveillance of […]
(Politico) Muslim community leaders told Mayor Eric Adams during a closed-door meeting Tuesday that a high-ranking member of the NYPD should face consequences for claiming the department never surveilled Muslims in the wake of 9/11 — with one attendee calling for the […]
(NY Daily News) Mayor Adams joined a growing chorus of local lawmakers and advocates Monday in condemning a top NYPD official’s defense of the department’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Speaking at an unrelated press […]
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(BBC) The man who carried out the terror attack outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital was probably acting alone, a senior anti-terror police chief said. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes said no-one else was linked to the attack but there were still “questions […]
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(Jerusalem Post) Police in the western German city of Münster on Thursday stormed the Hezbollah-controlled Imam-Mahdi mosque and its affiliated center because intelligence determined that the mosque and its center are pursuing violations of the constitution. Sources told the Jerusalem Post in […]
(National-UAE) A terror conference took place [last week] in London with the aim of making the capital’s business district the “safest city area in the world.” Hosted by City of London Police, more than 150 security professionals, business leaders and counter-terrorism experts […]
(Kathimerini) In an operation carried out with help from the European police agency Europol, law enforcement authorities in northern Greece have dismantled what they believe to be a large migrant smuggling ring. According to an announcement released by the Hellenic Police (ELAS) […]
(ANSA) Italian police on Monday arrested four Albanian men who have lived in Italy for many years on suspicion of plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Italy. The arrests were made in the southern city of Bari in Puglia and the northern city […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German citizen accused of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization was arrested this Friday upon arrival at the Frankfurt airport (southern Germany), as announced today (03.12.2022) by the State Attorney General’s Office. The woman, who was identified […]
(Las Vegas Review-Journal) A woman is accused of stabbing a man on Saturday at Sunset Station as revenge for the killing of an Iranian military leader. Nika Nikoubin, 21, is being held on $60,000 bail after she was charged with attempted murder, […]
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