(Age) Terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika will remain in prison after a Victorian Supreme Court judge extended his detention order but said Benbrika had made progress towards deradicalisation while in prison. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth on Thursday extended Benbrika’s detention […]
(Radio NZ) The government is looking into whether it will change the law to make it possible to send would-be terrorists, or refugees who have been serious offenders, back to their home countries. And former justice minister Andrew Little has defended how […]
(Radio NZ) The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat. Ahamed Aathill Samsudeen stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket […]
(Radio NZ) Government agencies which battled to detain and deport the LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen are remaining silent on why they did not agree to his request to lose New Zealand residence. Officials were moving to cancel Samsudeen’s refugee status and detain […]
(Radio NZ) Security services briefings show the LynnMall attacker was highly likely to carry out a terrorist attack in New Zealand only if he was prevented from leaving the country. They show Ahamed Samsudeen believed he had been set up and that […]
(NCA NewsWire) One of the men who helped plot a Christmas Day terror attack to behead and bomb people at Melbourne’s Federation Square has had his appeal dismissed after trying to argue the jury verdict was “unsafe and unsatisfactory.” Hamza Abbas was […]
(Age) A Victorian Supreme Court judge has labelled the conduct of Australia’s national security agency a “disgrace” for missing deadlines and disregarding court orders over the ongoing detention of terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth chided lawyers […]
(Daily Telegraph) The self-described “baby terrorist” has been jailed yet again, after she sent a barrage of threatening texts to her brother while off her psychiatric medications. Jihadi bride Alo-Bridget Namoa was jailed for at least seven months by Magistrate Peter Feather, […]
(Age) The principal of Victoria’s largest Islamic school is being sued by a female teacher for sexual harassment and assault. Omar Hallak, the founder and principal of Al-Taqwa College in Truganina in Melbourne’s outer west, allegedly sexually assaulted or harassed the then-25-year-old […]
(AP) The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Tuesday setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The resolution, adopted by consensus by the 193-member world body and cosponsored by 55 mainly Muslim countries, emphasizes the right to freedom of […]
(Reuters) Australia on Friday listed the entire Palestinian Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, calling the move a deterrent to political and religious violence and bringing Australia in line with the United States, the European Union and Britain. Australia had for […]
(AAP) A Melbourne man made a jihadi video in which he brandished a knife, talked of spilling blood, and pledged allegiance to Islamic State, a court has heard. Two brothers, Aran Sherani, 21, and Ari Sherani, aged 20, have been charged with […]
(Brisbane Times) An Australian citizen accused of helping three men enter Syria and alleged to have shot at armed forces overseas has been granted bail, as his lawyer criticised the attitude of high-ranking Australian Federal Police members. Counterterrorism teams from Queensland and […]
(Brisbane Times) A Supreme Court judge has granted bail to an Australian man accused of terrorism-related offences while criticising the federal case for its “prejudiced” handling of religious defendants. In July last year, Omar Saghir was arrested by Australian Federal Police when […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) The entirety of Palestinian group Hamas has been listed as a terrorist organisation by the federal government as Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the Coalition has no higher priority than national security. Reaction to the decision has been […]
(NCA NewsWire) One of the men who helped plot a Christmas Day terror attack to behead and bomb people at an iconic Melbourne location is arguing the jury verdict was “unsafe and unsatisfactory.” Hamza Abbas was found guilty of committing an act […]
(AAP) A South Australian woman jailed for taking steps to join the terror group Islamic State has not fully acknowledged her offending and remains a “vulnerable person, susceptible to adverse and destructive influences,” a court has ruled. In December, the Federal Court […]
(NCA NewsWire) A woman dubbed the “baby terrorist” is back in police custody after allegedly sending text messages to a relative threatening to kill. Alo-Bridget Namoa, 24, was arrested at her western Sydney home on Sunday night and charged with using a […]
(NCA NewsWire) The Australian government feared terrorists would strike on our shores in the days after September 11 — and that the Defence Force was not equipped to fight back. Two decades since the attack on the United States that changed the […]
(NCA NewsWire) An alleged member of Islamic State has refused to appear in court on Saturday, as the magistrate labelled the case disturbing. Police will allege that 34-year-old Caringbah resident Daniel Greenfield had been plotting a terrorist attack to be carried out […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Counter-terror police say that alleged aspiring jihadist Daniel Greenfield was allegedly well into planning a terror attack when they arrested him in Sutherland on Christmas Eve. The 34-year-old had planned to attack police officers, government officials and other Muslims […]
(AAP) A South Australian woman convicted of taking steps to join the terror group Islamic State will be subject to an ongoing control order which limits her movements and activities. The Federal Court on Wednesday ruled an interim order previously imposed on […]
(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]
(WA Today) A Victorian woman accused of forcefully marrying off her daughter to a stranger in Western Australia who later murdered the young bride has pleaded not guilty to coercing her daughter into the marriage. Sakina Muhammad Jan, 45, will appear at […]
(Daily Telegraph) Australia’s most dangerous terrorist, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, will appear in court on Thursday, as authorities review the continuing detention order which is keeping him in jail despite him completing his 15-year jail term. The automatic review of his order, the […]
(WA Today) A Victorian woman who allegedly forcibly married off her daughter to a stranger in WA told her to stay with her husband, saying “we will only take back your dead body.” Maryiam Khan, a high school friend of slain student […]
(WA Today) A Victorian woman has appeared in court accused of forcefully marrying off her daughter to the West Australian stranger who later murdered the young bride. If the matter is sent to trial and the woman is convicted, she would become […]
(Age) A self-described “soldier of Islamic State” who stabbed another woman in prison has been sentenced for a second terrorist act and had her jail term increased to 48 years. Momena Shoma was less than three years into a marathon stretch at […]
(ABC-Australia) Police have told a court a 21-year-old Adelaide woman was ambushed and stabbed by members of her own family because she was dating someone outside her faith. Five people — three men and two women — have now been charged with […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) The black and white flag of terrorist group Islamic State has been displayed 305 times in NSW since 2015, according to internal police data on incidents and reports. The number of recorded displays of the flag peaked at 142 […]
(Stuff) A convicted murderer is seeking $7500 damages from the Corrections Department because he alleges restrictions have been put on his religious rights. Sainey Marong is … serving a life sentence with a non-parole term of 18 years for the 2016 murder […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia will list white supremacist group The Base and all of Hezbollah as terrorist organisations, making it a criminal offence to be a member. Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews described The Base, a group that began in the United […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man convicted of plotting to commit terrorist acts — some of which included killing police, attacking government buildings and engaging in “guerrilla warfare” — has had his jail term reduced. Jibryl Almaouie had pleaded guilty in 2017 to multiple […]
(NCA NewsWire) A terrorist who once professed admiration for Osama bin Laden failed to overturn a court decision keeping him behind bars for longer. Abdul Nacer Benbrika has spent 15 years behind bars after he was found guilty and jailed for being […]
(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man who was jailed for 12 years for compiling a terrorist textbook is fighting to be freed from prison after being rearrested for allegedly attempting to communicate with a convicted ISIS financier. Belal Saadallah Khazaal, 51, on Monday […]
(ABC-Australia) A Victorian schoolboy who had a “fixation” with the so-called Islamic State and allegedly threatened to hurt female students at his school has been charged with terror offences. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named, was arrested early last month. He was […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Intelligence officials have travelled to Syria in a secret operation to gather information about the Australian families of Islamic State fighters living in a refugee camp in the country’s north as the federal government weighs up a rescue mission. […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man charged with threatening to kill “non-Muslims” faces six new charges of possessing objectionable material. The 19-year-old, who has interim name suppression, also faces two charges of distributing objectionable publications between July and September 2021. He appeared at the […]
(AAP) Undeterred by a string of recent court failures, a terror cell leader convicted for encouraging a bomb plot targeting the MCG is again fighting for his freedom. Abdul Nacer Benbrika was the first Australian convicted of leading a terror organisation and […]
(Age) A “soldier of Islamic State” jailed for 42 years for a frenzied stabbing attack faces more jail time after she attacked a Canadian fellow inmate with garden shears in the hope of generating international headlines. Momena Shoma was less than three […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) has cancelled a planned online forum featuring senior Taliban representatives after a community backlash. The federation, which describes itself as the peak group representing Muslims in Australia, organised the event for Saturday […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Muslim Australians have raised concerns about an online forum being promoted by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils that will include two senior Taliban representatives. The federation, which describes itself as the peak group representing Muslims in Australia, is […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A Sydney man has been jailed for more than five years for preparing for a terror attack in Bangladesh, after he was stopped at Sydney Airport and found with camouflage gear, tactical boots and an electronic copy of the […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A Sydney man who had “grandiose” plans to commit a terrorist act in Australia before attempting to travel to Pakistan to join Islamic State fighters on the front lines has been sentenced to just over seven years’ jail for […]
(AAP) A Sydney man who [was] stopped at the airport on the way to engage in extremist violence is set to be sentenced on Monday. Nowroz Rayed Amin, 30, was on his way to Bangladesh, where he admits he planned to engage […]
(AAP) A woman serving a decades-long jail sentence has pleaded guilty to engaging in a terrorist act in prison. Momena Shoma is serving a 42-year prison sentence in Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost women’s prison. Shoma, 28, on Monday faced the Victorian Supreme […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man who admitted to plotting a violent terror attack spoke of “recipes” and “cooking class” in veiled references to making bombs in messages with a fellow extremist. Sydney man Nowroz Amin was asked to explain his past words at […]
(NZ Herald) A teenager accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims has been granted name suppression after a lawyer argued the young man had a chance of being deradicalised. The 19-year-old Auckland man first appeared in the North Shore District Court on September […]
(AAP) A Sydney Islamic State member whose online martyrdom posts included Canberra’s Parliament House flying a black flag says he was naive and brainwashed. “I have completely renounced my membership of IS and any other terrorist organisation,” Youssef Uweinat told the NSW […]
(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 […]
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