(AP) A German court on Thursday convicted a Palestinian man from Syria of a war crime and murder for launching a grenade into a crowd of civilians waiting for food in Damascus in 2014. He was sentenced to life in prison. The […]
(National-UAE) The Home Office plans to fast-track thousands of asylum cases from a handful of countries, including Syria and Yemen, as the backlog of people waiting for an initial decision climbs to almost 161,000. About 12,000 asylum seekers from nations that have […]
(AP) Nearly 1 million people applied for international protection in the European Union in 2022, according to data published Wednesday, bringing the number of asylum requests to a level not seen since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016. The EU Agency for Asylum […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum has lost her challenge over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship despite a “credible” case she was trafficked. Mr Justice Jay told the semi-secret court dealing with her case that her appeal had been fully dismissed. The […]
(AFP) Police on Wednesday arrested the father of two Pakistani sisters living in Spain who were lured back to their homeland last year and killed by family members in a suspected honour killing. The man, whose identity was not given, was arrested […]
(NL Times) A Rotterdam court acquitted 33-year-old Annas A. on Wednesday for his alleged role in the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015. A., who is from Amsterdam, was suspected of being a middleman who helped supply weapons that were used in […]
(Arab News) Scotland’s Health Minister Humza Yousaf has emerged as a front-runner in the contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the Scottish National Party and the country’s first minister. Sturgeon, 52, shocked many in British politics last week when she […]
(Reuters) French appeal court judges made errors when overturning an anti-Muslim hate conviction against former French far-right presidential challenger Eric Zemmour and the trial should be held again, the country’s highest court ruled on Tuesday. Zemmour, who won 7% in the first […]
(BBC) A university professor falsely accused of Islamophobia said the experience had been “terrifying.” A student society complained about Professor Steven Greer when he worked at the University of Bristol. In October 2021 the university said its investigation into a module taught […]
(Middle East Eye) An immigration court in London will rule this week on whether Shamima Begum, who fled Britain to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria aged 15, has won her appeal against the UK government who revoked her British citizenship. […]
(Breitbart) A Swedish court has reduced the sentence for an Afghan migrant found guilty of slashing the throat of a Russian prostitute in a hotel room and leaving the woman for dead. An appeals court has ruled to reduce the 16-year prison […]
(Brussels Times) The daily body searches that defendants had to undergo at the 22 March 2016 terror trial are now banned, the Brussels interim relief judge has ruled. The information, shared by VRT Nieuws, was confirmed to Belga News Agency on Thursday […]
(National-UAE) Britain summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat on Monday to make clear that threats to journalists on UK soil “will never go unchallenged” after a Persian-language TV channel was forced to close its London newsroom. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he was […]
(AP) Bulgarian police discovered 43 migrants, including ten children, hidden in a van in the west of the country, officials said Monday, just days after authorities found the bodies of 18 migrants concealed in a lumber truck. Prosecutor Natalia Nikolova said the […]
(BBC) More than 1,000 staff in Manchester have taken counter-terrorism training ahead of new legislation to tighten venue security after the Arena bomb. The Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) course aims to equip staff to identify, mitigate and respond to terror attacks. It […]
(National-UAE) Refugee charities that work with migrants in northern France are “just as bad as people smugglers” who ferry people across the English Channel in search of new lives, the new Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson has said. The MP, who was […]
(Kathimerini) The 35-kilometer extension of the border fence between Greece and Turkey at Evros will be completed in the next 10 months, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos told Skai on Sunday. The contractor for the extension has already been selected and the […]
(Arab News) The mother of a Daesh extremist known as “Jihadi Jack” has said that she has “guilty thoughts” about whether his “chaotic” childhood led him to join the terrorists as a teenager. In an autobiography, Sally Lane says her “over-liberal” parenting […]
(Arab News) Currently, 200 children who arrived in Britain as asylum-seekers are missing from hotels run by the Home Office. Some of the refugees abducted from outside hotels on the south coast have been trafficked and coerced into organized crime groups 260 […]
(Breitbart) A Syrian asylum seeker appeared in an appeals court in Belgium this week after being convicted of raping an eight-year-old and getting her pregnant, forcing the girl to have an abortion. The 27-year-old Syrian, who was indicted for raping his eight-year-old […]
(AFP) Bulgarian prosecutors indicted six people on Saturday over the deaths of 18 Afghans who suffocated in a truck later left abandoned outside the capital Sofia. The discovery Friday was the deadliest incident linked to people smuggling in Bulgaria as the country […]
(BBC) Independent TV network Iran International is suspending its operations in the UK because of threats against its London-based journalists. The Persian-language TV channel said that the decision was due to a “significant escalation in state-backed threats from Iran.” “Threats had grown […]
(Euractiv) An application to burn a Quran outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm has been processed and refused by the police on Thursday as tensions with Turkey over Sweden’s NATO applications are still high. Stockholm police have, for the second time in […]
(AFP) Bulgarian authorities on Friday found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country. Bulgaria’s deadliest such incident comes as the Balkan nation struggles with an increase in illicit border crossings. The truck was transporting […]
(BBC) A man has pleaded not guilty to plotting a terror attack at Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park. Edward Little is accused of researching intended targets to attack, including a Christian preacher, on or before his arrest on 23 September 2022. […]
(Brussels Times) The questioning of investigators at the Brussels Assise Court, charged with judging the attacks of 22 March 2016, came to a close on Thursday evening with a single question from Mr. Xavier Carrette, attorney for Ibrahim Farisi. Earlier, investigation coordinator […]
(National-UAE) The number of investigations by UK counter-terrorism police into state threats has quadrupled in the past two years, with several “close calls,” a senior officer has said. Matt Jukes, head of counter-terrorism policing, described the workload as “unprecedented” and said it […]
(Brussels Times) Sebastien Courtoy, lawyer for Smail Farisi, argued in the Brussels Court of Assizes on Thursday that Oussama Atar, who led the terrorist cell responsible for the 22 March 2016 attacks from Syria, had been released by the authorities to become […]
(Arab News) A man believed to be involved in smuggling migrants across the English Channel from France is in critical condition in the hospital after being shot. The man, thought to be Kurdish and in his 30s, is believed to have been […]
(AP) A court in Germany convicted two Afghan men Thursday of killing their 34-year-old elder sister because they didn’t agree with her lifestyle. The Berlin regional court found the men, aged 28 and 24, guilty of murder for killing the mother of […]
(BBC) A man accused of posting a link to a video of suicide bombings on Instagram has appeared in court. Shafi Saleem, 32, is alleged to have shared terrorist material via the app last year. He was arrested on Tuesday at Heathrow […]
(Breitbart) A 30-year-old suspected Islamic radical has been arrested in Sweden after allegedly carrying out at least five rapes at a care home while working at the facility last autumn. The man is said to have been employed at the care home, […]
(Brussels Times) The defence team of Salah Abdeslam took the floor at the Brussels Assise Court on Tuesday afternoon to question investigators and examining magistrates about their investigation into the Brussels attacks of 22 March 2016. In her first questions to the […]
(Breitbart) A migrant accused of a stabbing spree which saw two killed in Germany should have already been deported by authorities, a minister in the country has admitted. Nancy Faeser, Germany’s Antifa-linked interior minister, has admitted that the migrant thought to be […]
(Slovak Spectator) A Slovak woman linked to Islamic terrorist group ISIS has been charged with terror offences after she was secretly transported back to Slovakia from Kurdistan. The woman, who has been identified as 44-year-old Renáta D., arrived in Slovakia on a […]
(Iran International) A man arrested in the vicinity of Iran International’s headquarters and charged with a terrorism offence pleaded not guilty in a court session on Tuesday. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev (Mohammad-Hussein Dovtaev), 30, an Austrian national, was detained at Chiswick Business Park on […]
(Swiss Info) Geneva’s city council has amended its regulations for public sports facilities to allow people to wear burkinis in the city’s swimming pools. The change had been pushed by the political left. In the end, 38 votes were in favour of […]
(Jewish News) The founder of a grant-making foundation sponsoring Muslim students through university has appealed to the Jewish community to help persuade the government to recognise the UN’s annual Day to Combat Islamophobia on 15 March. Asif Aziz, a businessman who established […]
(College Fix) A professor in England who was accused of Islamophobia — but cleared of any wrongdoing by the university — has claimed that he has worn a disguise and carried a weapon due to threats against him and that the investigation […]
(AP) More than 8,400 Europe-bound migrants perished at sea while attempting to cross the Mediterranean over the past four years, a charity said Tuesday. Save the Children said in a report that about a half million people crossed or attempted to cross […]
(Iran International) The London police has charged a man with a terrorism offence on Monday after he was arrested two days ago in the vicinity of Iran International’s headquarters. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev (Mohammad-Hussein Dovtaev), 30, an Austrian national, was charged with collecting information […]
(Arab News) Four teenage Afghan boys have been arrested in the UK in connection with the alleged rape of a schoolgirl. One, a 15-year-old, was arrested on suspicion of rape, while the other three — aged 13, 15 and 16 — were […]
(Arab News) A controversial review into the UK’s counterterrorism strategy has been slammed due to its author only witnessing half a dozen meetings of its deradicalization program, the Observer reported on Sunday. William Shawcross, who was appointed to review the British government’s […]
(Breitbart) The head of a mosque in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has called for a law to ban the destruction of holy books and texts in the aftermath of the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an. Faraj Semmo, CEO of the Gothenburg […]
(BBC) Fifteen people, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested after violent clashes outside a Merseyside hotel accommodating asylum seekers. A police officer and two members of the public suffered minor injuries during the disorder in Knowsley on Friday. A police van […]
(BBC) A religious chief criticised in a damning review of the UK’s scheme to prevent terrorism has hit back after being singled out in the report. The report commissioned by the Home Office suggests the Prevent strategy, which aims to identify potential […]
(BBC) There are “grave concerns” about the deportation of Abu Hamza’s son to Turkey, the BBC has been told. Sufyan Mustafa, from London, was stripped of his British citizenship in 2016 after he travelled to fight in Syria. The 28-year-old is due […]
(BBC) A man is facing trial accused of having an instruction manual on how to make a 3D-printed gun following an investigation into Islamist extremism. Abdiwahid Abdulkadir Mohamed has been charged with six counts of possessing documents useful for committing or preparing […]
(Reuters) Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Friday announced they plan to put a Dutch woman who joined Islamic State on trial for crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015. The woman, identified by Dutch media as Hasna […]
(ITV) Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats” means a “dramatic reduction” in the number of illegal Channel crossings, the home secretary has told ITV News, but she would not put a timescale on the commitment. The policy has become one of […]
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