(NL Times) Nine men were arrested in Eindhoven on Thursday under suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act, and training to perpetrate the crime. The nine suspects allegedly sympathize with the jihadist principles of ISIS, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said […]
(Radio France) At a criminal trial centred on the violent deaths of 130 people, there are no good days. But there are less bad ones. On Wednesday, after nine hearings devoted to the catalogue of cowardice and horror, heroism finally had its […]
(AP) The uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago in Italy after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was detained Wednesday on the outskirts of Paris, according to Italian authorities who fear the teenager may be dead. Saman Abbas was […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris hearing at which 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 came to an end with the presentation […]
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(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 […]
(Stuff) The repatriation of Suhayra Aden, a woman who joined Islamic State, has cost the government more than $60,000. The government organised a “managed return” of Aden and her two children from Turkey earlier this year, after she was detained at the […]
(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 […]
(Radio France) The director of the investigation into the Belgian links to the November 2015 Paris attacks told the court on Tuesday that it was “the toughest case” she had ever worked on. She also praised the exceptional collaboration between France and […]
(Detroit News) A Muslim woman and an advocacy group Wednesday called on the city of Ferndale to address allegations that police removed the woman’s Islamic headscarf to take a booking photo. Amy Doukoure, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan chapter, which is representing […]
(Reuters) Police stepped up their protection of a synagogue in western Germany on Wednesday evening after receiving information about a possible threat, but no injuries were reported. A police officer on the scene said nobody had been hurt during the operation in […]
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(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 France) The second week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial began with the continuation of the reading of the court president’s report, the ten-hour overview of the facts as they appear after six years of criminal investigation. And then the […]
(Breitbart) Police arrested three Muslim men who engaged in a street prayer on September 11th using a loud sound system to broadcast the prayer. The three men had gathered on Saturday between 7 am and 7:30 am on the rue du Maréchal […]
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(Reuters) A Somali asylum-seeker was arrested by Italian police after he allegedly stabbed four women and a six-year-old child in the tourist town of Rimini on Saturday night, ANSA news agency reported on Sunday. Investigators were for the moment ruling out terrorism […]
(Helsinki Times) Helsinki police are investigating after the flag of the extremist terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) was found flying from a highway overpass in Helsinki’s Myllypuro district. No crime is officially being suspected at the moment. The flag, which was flown […]
(AP) A declassified FBI document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks details contacts the men had with Saudi associates in the United States but does not provide proof that […]
(Age) Three men who planned to shoot and kill innocent members of the public were unlikely to have plotted a terror attack if not for the inducement of a covert police operative, a judge has ruled. However, brothers Ertunc and Samed Eriklioglu […]
(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 […]
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(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 […]
(Deutsche Welle) Sven Kurenbach still remembers the images of the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsing and the spontaneous minute of silence at the Berlin police department that followed. When Islamist terrorists weaponized passenger planes on September 11, 2001 — killing […]
(BBC) Three officers criticised during the Manchester Arena inquiry will not be investigated by the police watchdog. British Transport Police (BTP) PCs Jessica Bullough, Mark Renshaw and PCSO Lewis Brown were on duty during the 2017 atrocity which killed 22 people. They […]
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(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) Relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks called Thursday for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the FBI’s handling of evidence from its investigation into the hijackers and their associates, saying certain records are apparently missing or lost. […]
(Portugal Resident) PJ police in Lisbon have arrested two young Iraqi brothers over suspected links to terrorist organisation Daesh (ISIS). The 34- and 32-year-old have been living in Portugal since 2017, say reports, and are integrated within a support programme for refugees. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(Reuters) A Brooklyn woman who faces a resentencing for supporting Islamic State but skipped a court hearing because she feared being sent back to prison has been arrested in New Mexico, U.S. prosecutors said. Sinmyah Amera Ceasar, who prosecutors said used the […]
(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 […]
(KPHO) Members of an Arizona family are facing felony charges over the honor violence they did on a woman and her family because of their disapproval of her romantic relationship, police said. Peoria police said the six suspects targeted a now-pregnant relative, […]
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(Breitbart) Two Afghan nationals who were deported after being convicted of crimes are now back in Sweden after boarding evacuation flights from Kabul. The two men were immediately arrested at Arlanda airport in Stockholm upon entry back into the country for violating […]
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(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 […]
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(AP) Cyprus on Monday sent 88 Syrian migrants back to Lebanon after they tried to reach the eastern Mediterranean island nation on two boats. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris told the Associated Press that rescue crews continue to search for one of five […]
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(TVNZ) The woman accused of having ties to ISIS, Suhayra Aden, has arrived in New Zealand today, 1 NEWS understands. It is understood she was accompanied by police on the flight that touched down in New Zealand this morning. Exclusive pictures show […]
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(Kathimerini) Preparing for the possibility of migration pressure from Turkey in the coming weeks due to the developments in Afghanistan, law enforcement authorities, the coast guard and the armed forces are drafting plans to police and shield the Evros land border and […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Federal Parliament will need to sit in a locked-down Canberra over the next fortnight, with the government in a race against time to extend control orders on people considered a terrorist risk that will otherwise expire early next month. […]
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