(AFP) Italy’s anti-terrorism police and Europol on Tuesday arrested Pakistanis suspected of links to the man who attacked France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in 2020. The sting led to “arrests in Italy and abroad of Pakistani citizens with direct ties” to Zaheer Hassan […]
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(AP) Two people, one believed to be a migrant and the other the alleged trafficker, died Saturday in northern Greece while trying to evade a police checkpoint, police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki said. Twelve more people riding in the […]
(AP) Two men have been arrested in Norway and Bulgaria, respectively, for having “expressed support” for Al-Qaida through “internet-based activities,” Norway’s domestic security agency said Wednesday. One suspect was arrested in Oslo and the other — identified as a Norwegian student — […]
(Breitbart) The daughter of a Swedish Islamic State woman accused of aiding child rape and human trafficking in Syria was arrested in Denmark while trying to bring a four-year-old girl to Qatar. The daughter of Swedish Islamic State extremist Camilla Olofsson and deceased […]
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(Reuters) A federal judge on Tuesday increased her sentence for a New York City man who planned to join Islamic State and attacked an FBI agent to 25 years on Tuesday, after a federal appeals court called the original 17-year sentence “shockingly […]
(Radio NZ) The inquiry into the LynnMall stabbings is not expected to finalise its report until the end of August. Ahamed Samsudeen injured eight people in a supermarket before being shot dead by police last September. The Independent Police Conduct Authority said […]
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(Detroit News) The city of Ferndale is set to update how they process booking photos to resolve a complaint from a Muslim woman who sued over the removal of her Islamic headscarf after an arrest last year, an advocacy group announced Thursday. The Oakland […]
(AFP) Police dismantled a camp housing hundreds of migrants near Dunkirk in northern France on Wednesday after one person was killed and three wounded in suspected score-settling between smugglers, authorities said. Around 500 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, had been living at the […]
(AFP) France has detained and charged an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning an imminent attack with a knife in the name of Islamic State (IS) jihadists, a judicial source said Wednesday. Initial investigations indicated that he planned to carry out an […]
(Forbes) An Iraqi man in the U.S. accused of being linked to ISIS operatives was plotting to kill George W. Bush, going so far as to travel to Dallas in November to take video around the former president’s home and recruiting a […]
(AP) An Albanian man has been arrested for allegedly using social media to call for terror attacks against state institutions, police said Tuesday. A statement said a 56-year-old man identified only as I.S. (L.) used fake profiles to post “inciting photos and […]
(Algemeiner) France’s Jewish community has called on the authorities in the city of Lyon to retain the possibility of an antisemitic motive in the investigation of the chilling murder last Tuesday of an 89-year-old Jewish man. René Hadjaj was pushed to his […]
(Breitbart) An Afghan migrant who worked as security at German asylum accommodation has been accused of sexually abusing two Ukrainian refugee children aged six and seven. The alleged abuse is said to have taken place at asylum accommodation in the town of […]
(JTA) A dispute between neighbors in France ended with the death of a 90-year-old Jewish man, according to police, who do not suspect an antisemitic motive. Police arrested a 51-year-old neighbor of the deceased, René Hadjaj, sometime after Hadjaj’s death on Tuesday […]
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(Euronews) Authorities in six European countries have conducted a joint operation to remove extremist content and propaganda on SoundCloud. The European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol said on Friday that hundreds of illegal files had been removed from the German music streaming platform. The […]
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(Breitbart) A 19-year-old Syrian migrant has been accused of rape by a 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl but has not been kept in custody, in what some are claiming is a scandal. The alleged rape took place in the late evening last Wednesday […]
(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 […]
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