(Arab News) Andrew Drury, a documentary filmmaker who met Shamima Begum in a Syrian refugee camp, describes her as a “narcissist” who sees herself as a “celebrity” after the recent media attention, the Times reported. Drury has traveled to Syria several times […]
(AFP) Sweden’s prime minister has condemned as “deeply disrespectful” the weekend burning of a Koran in Stockholm, which has raised tensions with Turkey as the Nordic country courts Ankara over its NATO bid. Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan set fire to a copy […]
(i24) Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has an outreach center in London, located in a historically Jewish district of the British capital, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Friday. Tory lawmaker Alicia Kearns urged Downing Street to shutter the Islamic Centre […]
(AFP) Turkey on Saturday cancelled a visit by the Swedish defence minister over a demonstration by an anti-Islamic extremist in Stockholm, sparking a fresh crisis as Sweden tries to convince Ankara not to block its bid to join the NATO military alliance. […]
(AP) Greece prevented around 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers, an official said Saturday. Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos was speaking to ambassadors from other European Union countries plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom as he guided […]
(BBC) A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected firearm and suspicious package at a hospital maternity ward. The Gledhow wing of St James’s Hospital in Leeds was evacuated after […]
(AFP) Greek police said Friday that they had broken up a network trafficking illegal migrants on the Turkish border, making seven arrests. Police said the suspects were due to appear later Friday before the public prosecutor in the city of Thessaloniki, where […]
(ITV) A teenage Islamic State fanatic has admitted a plot to attack police officers or soldiers on home soil. Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to “torture, mutilate and kill military personnel” as he prepared to stake out a British Army barracks […]
(AP) Sweden is bracing for demonstrations Saturday that could complicate its efforts to persuade Turkey to approve its NATO accession, which has already drawn Turkey’s ire. A far-right activist from Denmark has received permission from police to stage a protest outside the […]
(Local) Sweden’s foreign minister has said that it would be “extremely improper” for him to call for the Danish extremist Rasmus Paludan not to be allowed to burn the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. Swedish police on Friday granted the […]
(Brussels Times) One of the accused in the trial of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Salah Abdeslam, stated that he would remain in his cell until the verdict is passed following an earlier complaint in which he claimed he […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court accused of keeping instructions on how to make a 3D-printed gun. Abdiwahid Abdulkadir Mohamed, 31, from north London, is facing terrorism charges for allegedly possessing the information. He is accused of six counts of possessing […]
(AFP) Italy is prepared to allow more Tunisians to reach its shores legally in exchange for greater efforts to cut irregular migration from its North African neighbour, Rome’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Rome wants to cooperate with Tunis to “reduce irregular immigration […]
(AFP) The leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats has attacked Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as an “Islamist dictator” as Ankara maintains its objections to approving Stockholm’s bid for NATO membership. Jimmie Akesson, whose party is currently propping up the Swedish government, […]
(Brussels Times) One of the terror suspects currently standing trial for the 2016 Brussels bombings, Salah Abdeslam stated on Wednesday that he was beaten by police officers during his transfer to the courtroom. His lawyer revealed that the inside of her client’s […]
(AP) A Muslim religious leader’s instruction to women to dutifully accept a husband’s “invitation to bed” to procreate has sparked outrage among many Turkish Cypriots, who saw the remarks as an imported encroachment of fundamentalist Islam on their secular community. “We don’t […]
(Anadolu) Greece’s Turkish minority sent a letter Tuesday to the UN’s special rapporteur on minority issues about problems it is facing. The letter was sent by the Friendship and Equality Party (DEB) and was supported by numerous minority religious, educational, and civil […]
(National-UAE) Britain cannot afford to underestimate the threat Islamist terrorism continues to pose to its security, an expert has warned, amid growing emphasis on the rise of far-right ideology among prisoners. Dr Paul Stott, head of security and extremism at Policy Exchange, […]
(Reuters) Youth riots that erupted in Berlin on New Year’s Eve have rekindled a debate over immigration just as Germany is preparing reforms to lure a new wave of skilled foreign workers to Europe’s largest economy. Dozens of police officers, firefighters, rescue […]
(NL Times) A 37-year-old man suspected of holding a senior leadership role in the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra was arrested in Arkel, Zuid-Holland, on Tuesday. The Syrian man was believed to be in a top position in the security services of […]
(Radio France) Frenchman Jonathan Geffroy is accused of terrorist offences in Syria, as are his wife and mother. [Geffroy] has provided valuable information for French anti-terrorism investigators. Geffroy, 40, sits alone in the prisoner’s box at the Paris Special Criminal Court. His […]
(AP) Greece’s migration minister says the number of migrants arriving in Greece has dropped dramatically over the past two years, while the number of asylum-seekers living in the country has also fallen. Speaking Tuesday at an event marking the third anniversary of […]
(AFP) The hanging of an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showing him dangling by his legs from a rope in Stockholm does not warrant a criminal investigation, prosecutors said Monday. “A decision has been taken not to initiate a preliminary […]
(AFP) A French jihadist has been killed fighting Syrian regime forces in northwestern Syria, his faction announced on Monday. The extremist used the pseudonym Abu Hamza, but his real name could not be verified. Firqatul Ghuraba, a group of foreign jihadists in […]
(BBC) Migrants facing potential removal to Rwanda under the Home Office’s relocation scheme have won permission to challenge the policy. Last month the High Court ruled that the scheme was lawful. Today’s ruling means there is no prospect of flights leaving immediately […]
(AFP) A man has been charged with attempted murder in France after seven people were wounded with a metal hook at Paris’s Gare du Nord station last week, prosecutors said Sunday. Investigators still do not know the motivation for attack, prosecutor Laure […]
(JNS) Born in Tunisia in 1972, Hassen Chalghoumi received his undergraduate degree from a university in Damascus before studying theology in Pakistan. The father of five children, he arrived in 1996 in France, where he became the imam of the Drancy mosque […]
(Breitbart) A 21-year-old Tunisian suspected of drug dealing was arrested this week in the city of Toulon after attacking French police officers, injuring two. The incident took place at a known drug dealing area in Toulon last Saturday during the evening after […]
(Anadolu) A conservative lawmaker sparked criticism by suggesting that immigrant children must only speak German in schoolrooms, corridors and in the playground. Mario Czaja, secretary general of the Christian Democratic Union, claimed that many immigrants are poorly integrated into society due to […]
(Brussels Times) Hassan Iquioussen, the Moroccan imam accused by French authorities of spreading hate, was sent back to Morocco on Friday, Belgium’s state secretary for asylum and migration, Nicole de Moor, reported. Iquioussen had fled to Belgium in summer after France decided […]
(AP) The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday. Almost half of the 2022 attempts were made over […]
(AFP) The Union of Mosques in France is suing the controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq for discrimination, hate speech and inciting violence in remarks to an interviewer, the organisation told AFP on Friday. Houellebecq, whose books sell in big numbers, penned the […]
(BBC) A man has been given a conditional discharge after he was arrested as police tried to prevent violence between groups in a Leicester street. Arslan Ibrahim was detained during a confrontation in Harrison Road, Belgrave, on 7 September. The 28-year-old, of […]
(BBC) A coroner has said he will “fearlessly” examine whether the state could have prevented the murders of three men during a terrorist attack in a park. James Furlong, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and David Wails died within minutes of being stabbed by Khairi […]
(Iran International) Reports say schoolchildren in some mosques in the UK were taught special lessons in praise of Iranian IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. At least six mosques across the country organised events to honour the former commander of IRGC Quds […]
(Deutsche Welle) The most recent arrest of two terror suspects in Germany has raised the specter of Islamist terror in Germany — despite intensified efforts to prevent such an attack in recent years. Two men had intended to kill “an unspecified number of people” […]
(Local) The man who launched an attack at Paris Gare du Nord station on Wednesday was a foreigner with a long criminal record who was under an order to leave the country, authorities have revealed. The man launched his attack at around […]
(Breitbart) A group of around a dozen people in the French department of Essonne are accused of beheading animals in a home to ward off “demons” on Christmas Day, with one man arrested. The group, said to be of Turkish origin, are […]
(AP) More than 244,000 people applied for asylum in Germany last year, and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees came to the country looking for shelter from Russia’s war, the government said Wednesday. The No. 1 country of origin for asylum-seekers was […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum has said she accepts that she joined a terror group when she fled Britain as a schoolgirl for Islamic State (IS) — and said she understands the public anger towards her. In interviews spanning more than a year, Ms […]
(AFP) Moroccan and Spanish authorities have broken up a jihadist cell linked to the Islamic State group and arrested its three members in a joint operation, Morocco’s security services said Wednesday. One of the “extremist elements” was arrested by special forces from […]
(Deutsche Welle) A court in the western German city of Koblenz on Wednesday began the proceedings against a German national accused of assisting the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist group in Syria and Iraq. What do we know so far about the […]
(AFP) A Madrid court ordered two Spanish women who married Islamic State (IS) fighters remanded in custody Wednesday on terror-related charges after they were flown back from Syrian detention camps with 13 children, legal documents showed. They arrived at Torrejon de Ardoz […]
(AP) The Paris prosecutor said investigators haven’t yet been able to identify the attacker who wounded six people with a sharp metallic hook in the French capital’s Gare du Nord train station on Wednesday before being shot and wounded by police. The […]
(Brussels Times) A 29-year-old Belgian woman convicted of terrorism and released on parole was arrested on 4 January in Budapest while on her way to Turkey, according to a report in Het Laatste Nieuws, confirmed by the federal prosecutor’s office. One of […]
(AFP) French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran’s religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies. “The mullahs aren’t happy. The caricatures of their supreme […]
(AFP) A Turkish-Swiss dual national who stabbed a passer-by to death in a rare jihadist attack in Switzerland was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in a psychiatric institution. Named only as Omer A., the 29-year-old was found guilty of murder, attempted murder, […]
(AFP) Madrid has repatriated two Spanish women who were married to Islamic State group fighters, flying them home from jihadist camps in Syria with 13 children, the government said on Tuesday. They arrived at Torrejon de Ardoz military airport near Madrid late […]
(National-UAE) Austrian intelligence agents should have raised the alarm about a known ISIS supporter before he killed four people in a 2020 terrorist attack in Vienna, an inquiry has found. A counter-terrorism team failed to pass on evidence that Kujtim Fejzulai was […]
(AP) An appeals court in Greece has ordered the release of a Somali migrant who had been sentenced to life in prison for people smuggling, in a case that has drawn international attention to draconian border protection laws in the European Union […]
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