(Radio France) The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has confirmed that he has decided to drop his complaint against award-winning French writer Michel Houellebecq over “violent comments” targeting Muslims made during a recent interview. In a statement issued on Friday […]
(NY Times) On Halloween 2017, Sayfullo Saipov plowed a rented pickup truck down Manhattan’s crowded West Side bicycle path, smashing into pedestrians and cyclists, killing eight people and injuring more than a dozen, the authorities said. Soon after Mr. Saipov was charged, […]
(AAP) The federal opposition has claimed the repatriation of the so-called ISIS brides has turned a western Sydney issue into a nationwide problem after one was granted bail in a NSW regional court. At the same time the former NSW counter-terrorism minister […]
(Canadian Press) A Quebec woman facing terrorism charges after returning to Canada from a detention camp in northeastern Syria last October has been granted bail. The details of Oumaima Chouay’s bail hearing or the reasons for her release Friday by a Quebec […]
(CNN) Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, was indicted Friday on more than a dozen charges, including several terrorism charges, prosecutors announced. Bickford now faces three counts of attempted […]
(Canadian Press) A lawyer for citizens detained in northern Syria who want to return to Canada says the federal government will continue to create obstacles and reverse decisions unless it is ordered to bring them home. The Federal Court heard final arguments […]
(UPI) A Muslim man is asking an appeals court to reverse a ruling to throw out his lawsuit that alleged his constitutional rights were violated when he was forced to say his prayers inside a cell next to a toilet at a […]
(Brussels Times) One of the accused men in the trial on the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Mohamed Abrini, wanted to cause trouble and hide a knife, according to the risk assessment that the police relied on for the much-discussed […]
(BBC) A woman has denied being involved in the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a four-year-old British girl in Kenya. Amina Noor, 39, is accused of aiding and abetting a non-UK citizen in an act of genital mutilation between 2006 and 2007. […]
(Morocco World News) French writer Michel Houellebecq has strikingly admitted to condoning and promoting an anti-Islam discourse, sarcastically pleading guilty to being “a part-time Islamophobe.” France has a problem with Islam The writer made his shocking remarks as he barely emerged from […]
(Brussels Times) Uncertainty about whether those standing trial for their role in the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels should be subject to systematic strip searches has been cleared up as the Federal Police chief stated that any nude search must […]
(Sky News) A barber shop owner who sent thousands of pounds to Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria after claiming COVID grant payments has been jailed for 12 years. Tarek Namouz, 43, from Hammersmith in west London, had received the bounce-back loans […]
(BBC) A drugs conspiracy involving friends of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber was “comfortably” worth £6m, a court has heard. Five men have been sentenced to between six and 12 years at Manchester Crown Court following a spin-off inquiry from the Manchester […]
(CNN) Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square […]
(National-UAE) Al Qaeda-linked terrorist Bherlin Gildo has been jailed for four months in Sweden for international crimes committed in Syria which saw him pose with corpses. His conviction comes seven years after a trial against him in the UK collapsed amid allegations […]
(NY Post) The Maine teenager and alleged recently radicalized Islamic extremist suspected of attacking cops with a machete on New Year’s Eve was officially charged — as police found belongings tied to him in a Queens park on Monday, according to sources. […]
(Radio France) The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has filed a complaint against award-winning French writer Michel Houellebecq over “staggeringly brutal” comments made during a recent interview in which the author drew divisions between “native French people” and “the Muslims” […]
(VRT) A judge has ruled that six accused in the 22 March terror attacks trial no longer have to undergo daily strip searches, unless carefully motivated. The defendants had claimed they were being confronted with humiliating treatment when being transferred from prison to […]
(AFP) Two men who received the longest prison terms for allegedly aiding in the 2016 terror attack in the French resort city of Nice have appealed their conviction, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. Their appeal came weeks after French judges ordered prison […]
(Breitbart) A Swedish administrative court has closed two independent Muslim schools in Stockholm and Uppsala after security police warned of the spreading of Islamist ideology and possible radicalisation. The administrative court in Stockholm closed the two Muslim schools this week after ruling […]
(KLAS) A woman accused of stabbing her online date in retaliation for a U.S. military drone strike that killed an Iranian leader, who told police she wanted to get revenge, pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday. A Clark County grand jury […]
(Brussels Times) Suspect Mohamed Abrini on Friday deemed the Brussels bombing trial a farce and threatened to stop cooperating if the conditions of his transfer from prison to the courthouse do not change. “I don’t even know what to say anymore. All […]
(AP) Spanish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into the deaths of more than 20 migrants last June at the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave city of Melilla, saying in a statement Friday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct by […]
(Deutsche Welle) The man who carried out a knife attack on a German high-speed train was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday. A court in Munich found that Abdalrahman A. was culpable despite claims he was mentally ill at the time. […]
(Brussels Times) Seven new civil parties came forward on Wednesday, following the resumption of the Brussels bombing trial, bringing the total to 1,070. On Tuesday, 111 new civil parties had registered, joining 957 others who had previously come forward. The Brussels Assise […]
(Brussels Times) Defendant Mohamed Abrini issued a complaint via his attorney Laura Pinilla, when the Brussels bombing trial resumed on Thursday afternoon. Abrini was unable to take notes on the testimony given during the morning session, Pinilla reported, because, for security reasons, […]
(Bowling Green Daily News) A Bowling Green resident facing federal terrorism charges after being accused of traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is seeking the dismissal of his criminal case. Mirsad Ramic, 32, is under […]
(Politico) The European Court of Human Rights rejected the appeal of former French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, who was convicted in France for “inciting discrimination and religious hatred” over comments targeting the French Muslim community. “The court held that the interference with […]
(Fox) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday that it has deported an Afghan national who was paroled into the U.S. last year, and pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a 3-year-old girl. Tariq Mohammad Intezar, a 25-year-old Afghan, was paroled into […]
(Free Beacon) Victims of Palestinian terror attacks are suing the Biden administration for awarding nearly half a billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds to the Palestinian government, which allegedly uses these funds to pay convicted terrorists and their families. The lawsuit, filed […]
(AFP) A Danish court on Tuesday sentenced an Islamic State (IS) sympathiser to 16 years in prison for plotting a bomb attack in the Scandinavian country. It is the longest sentence imposed to date for crimes of terrorism in Denmark, life in […]
(NY Daily News) A Queens man who tried to sneak into Syria to join ISIS was sentenced to more than 12 years behind bars, after he denounced the terrorist group in front of a federal judge Tuesday. Parveg Ahmed, 27, talked up […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss justice authorities say they have indicted a Turkish national for supporting terrorist groups and depicting prohibited violence. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) accuses the 26-year-old defendant of encouraging a teenager in his support for the ideology of […]
(PennLive) A man accused of stabbing an Allenwood Federal Penitentiary corrections officer in the eye in 2020 will not be permitted to plead no contest to two of the charges against him. U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann Monday ruled justice […]
(National-UAE) Lawyers of victims of the 2016 Brussels bombing attack on Monday said they had been “taken hostage” by defendants’ repeated walkouts and protests against security measures since the opening of the trial this month. Lawyers of four defendants — Mohamed Abrini, […]
(BBC) The government’s plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is lawful, the High Court has ruled. The court ruled on Monday that the scheme did not breach the UN’s Refugee Convention or human rights laws. But the cases of eight asylum seekers […]
(BBC) A man has been charged after four people died in the Channel when a migrant boat got into trouble. Thirty-nine people were rescued when a dinghy ran into difficulties off the Kent coast on Wednesday, but four died. Ibrahima Bah, 19, […]
(AAP) Jailed after planning a Syria trip to fight for ISIS and thrown back behind bars for owning a prohibited firearm, a Sydney man will now be watched carefully after release. On Friday, the NSW Supreme Court made an extended supervision order […]
(KLAS) A woman accused of stabbing her online date in retaliation for a U.S. military drone strike that killed an Iranian leader told police she wanted to get revenge, she said in police body camera videos the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. […]
(NY Times) Four Iranians who plotted to kidnap a prominent Iranian American journalist in Brooklyn paid a private investigator to watch their target, using a woman in California as a go-between, the authorities said. That woman, Niloufar Bahadorifar, pleaded guilty in Manhattan […]
(Toronto Star) Using aliases and social-media fronts, Khalilullah Yousuf was allegedly the driving force behind fundraising efforts to help the desperate and downtrodden Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. But FBI investigators allege the 34-year-old North York man, who was arrested Wednesday, used […]
(Breitbart) A 29-year-old radical Islamic extremist on trial for the murder of a Portuguese man has admitted to carrying out the attack to “defend the prophet” and “punish” Switzerland. The 29-year-old Swiss-Turkish dual national is on trial for murdering a 29-year-old Portuguese […]
(NY Daily News) A Queens man and co-conspirators from New Jersey, Canada and Virginia were nabbed for transferring over $35,000 to support ISIS, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Wednesday. Abdullah At Taqi, 23, of East […]
(BBC) William Barr was the US attorney general who announced the charges against Abu Agila Masud two years ago, on the 32nd anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing — the deadliest terror attack ever on UK soil. He also announced the charges against […]
(AP) A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice. The judge’s […]
(NL Times) On Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded four and three years in prison against two of the nine men arrested in Eindhoven on suspicion of terrorism in September last year. The OM requested acquittal for the other seven suspects […]
(AP) More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. […]
(National-UAE) A stand-off has enveloped the long-awaited 2016 Brussels bombing trial which has faced a rocky start as the main defendants of the triple suicide attacks that killed 32 people have refused to comply with the security procedures put in place. Six […]
(AP) A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington, the […]
(BBC) Five men have been jailed for a “ruthless” people-smuggling operation involving nearly 2,000 people. In one case nine people, including five children, were found in a distressed state in a lay-by after being brought from Europe in the back of a […]
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