(Reuters) The European Union must do more to protect its borders and to halt the departure of migrant boats from north Africa, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday. Meloni was speaking to the Italian parliament ahead of an EU summit […]
(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 […]
(National-UAE) Britain is facing growing interference, threats and influence from state actors including Iran, security minister Tom Tugendhat has warned. Since 10 Iranian plots were revealed in November more incidents have come to light. Foreign meddling of this nature, he said, poses […]
(Anadolu) A prominent politician in Sweden is pushing for the passage of a bill that would ban headscarves in the Swedish police force. The proposed law may also be extended to all public employees, Richard Jomshof, the chairman of parliament’s Justice Committee, […]
(Hungary Today) In 2015, Salah Abdeslam, one of the perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks and its sole survivor, brought several migrants from Hungary to Western Europe, where they were all involved in terrorist attacks. As revealed in a recent article in […]
(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 […]
(BBC) Fewer than 100 people who crossed the English Channel in small boats have been arrested for arriving illegally in the UK under a new power to deter them. The figure represents 0.3% of those who have crossed since the law was […]
(National-UAE) A leading British MP has spoken out against a concerted campaign to cover up efforts by extremists to take over UK schools and radicalise pupils. Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and the longest serving Muslim in the […]
(BBC) Recent disorder in Leicester showed why “robust strategies that support integration” were needed, the city’s bishop has said in the House of Lords. Making his maiden speech on Friday during a debate on immigration, Bishop Martyn Snow said more support was […]
(Breitbart) Over half of French teachers practice self-censorship when discussing issues of secularism, according to a newly released poll, in order to avoid possible religious backlash and protests. The poll, taken by the French firm Ifop, revealed that 52 per cent of […]
(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 […]
(Breitbart) French authorities in the city of Strasbourg arrested seven radicalised people and have indicted two of them over allegations of preparing to carry out a terrorist attack. The arrests took place on November 18th but were only publicly revealed on Thursday […]
(Deutsche Welle) Following Morocco’s World Cup win over Belgium, some Morocco supporters turned violent on the streets of Belgian cities. In Brussels, a car was set ablaze and at least one person was injured. Parts of the capital were sealed off. Police […]
(Local) Sweden’s Supreme Court has reversed the schoolgirl headscarf ban passed by the Moderate-led municipality of Staffanstorp in Skåne back in 2019, saying it breaks freedom of expression laws. Staffanstorp, where the Moderates rule in coalition with the far-right Sweden Democrats, wanted […]
(Algemeiner) Austria’s education minister has ordered an investigation into a mosque in Vienna exposed as a hotbed of antisemitic and Islamist incitement. Education Minister Susanne Raab said on Friday that the investigation of the Al-Hidaya Mosque in the Leopoldstadt neighborhood of the […]
(Reuters) Ministers from Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday agreed plans to step up co-operation to tackle irregular immigration across Europe and try to stop people smugglers working in the English Channel. Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman met her […]
(Press Release) A west London barber has been found guilty of sending thousands of pounds to fund terrorist activity in Syria, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Tarek Namouz, 43 (01.09.79) of west London, was arrested in May 2021 […]
(Breitbart) An Algerian illegal migrant has been arrested in Vigneux-Sur-Seine after allegedly murdering a 65-year-old French man who let him live in his home. The 65-year-old was found dead early Tuesday morning in his home and is said to have been beaten to […]
(Politico) Belgium’s highest court on Thursday suspended a controversial treaty on prisoner exchanges which could allow an Iranian diplomat convicted of terrorism in Belgium to be sent back to Tehran. “Belgium knows or must know that Iran will not effectively execute the […]
(National-UAE) The presiding judge of the Brussels bombing trial on Thursday intervened to call for improved relations between the parties involved after one of the defendants accused a policeman of strangling him. The incident was said to have been in retaliation for […]
(Anadolu) Greece does not recognize the Turkish community living in Western Thrace as an ethnic minority, thus violating a major international treaty, Türkiye’s top diplomat said on Thursday. “Greece persistently continues to violate the Lausanne Treaty and basic human rights of Turkish […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man sentenced to life in prison for an attempted terror attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 that was foiled by passengers had his appeal rejected Thursday by a French court. Their heroics were later immortalised in the Clint […]
(Euronews) French police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling Middle Eastern migrants across the English Channel. The criminal gang had allegedly organised the transportation of Afghan and Pakistani migrants to the United Kingdom. According to police sources, the […]
(Brussels Times) Bilal El Makhoukhi, a defendant in the Brussels bombing trial, knew where a cache of weapons of the terrorist cell was located, according to State Security wiretaps in June 2016, transmitted to the federal prosecutor. This information is included in […]
(BBC) A group of 28 people have escaped from a plane after it made an emergency landing in Barcelona’s El Prat airport in Spain, officials say. The emergency was caused by a pregnant woman on board the Morocco-Turkey flight faking labour, they […]
(Brussels Times) The third day of the 2016 Brussels terror attack trial was marred in controversy on Wednesday as five suspects left the courtroom to protest the conditions of their transfer. The Ministry of Justice has already dismissed the plea to relax […]
(BBC) An alleged firebomb attack at the office of an Iranian resistance group in north-west London is being investigated by police. The London Fire Brigade was called to the blaze in Cricklewood on Monday. The office is occupied by the People’s Mojahedin […]
(Dutch News) Education minister Dennis Wiersma has been accused of breaking the constitutional ban on discrimination with his plan to target Islamic weekend schools suspected of fostering radicalism. An organisation representing Islamic institutions in the Rotterdam area, SPIOR, has filed a police […]
(Euronews) Muslim leaders in Spain called for calm ahead of Tuesday’s crunch World Cup decider between Spain and Morocco amid fears of a repeat of crowd trouble in Belgium last week. Photographs and videos showed cars being smashed and upturned, and fires […]
(Brussels Times) The Conseil du Contentieux des Étrangers (CCE — Foreigners Litigation Council) has rejected an appeal by Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan preacher fighting to avoid deportation, according to a ruling published on Monday. The imam wanted his order to leave […]
(AP) Bulgaria rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October after a video released Monday showed a man being fired at on [the] European country’s border with Turkey. The footage of an asylum-seeker being hit with live ammunition […]
(AFP) A defendant on trial over the 2016 bombings in Brussels on Monday charged in court that the suspects were being “humiliated” by draconian security measures and threatened to remain silent unless conditions improved. Ten men are on trial accused of directing […]
(AP) More than six years after the deadliest peacetime attack on Belgian soil, the trial of 10 men accused over the suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station started in earnest under high security on Monday. Among the accused is […]
(Swiss Info) Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will have to stand trial in the Swiss city of Geneva next year accused of rape and sexual coercion. Justice officials and lawyers of the parties confirmed that the 60-year-old will be tried following four years […]
(Arab News) A former British Daesh bride detained in a prison camp in northeast Syria will die without medical intervention, with the UK government’s inaction amounting to “barbarism,” a neurologist told the Times. The woman in her 40s, who is known by […]
(AP) Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels’ European Union quarter. She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived — 32 other people did not. It’s […]
(Breitbart) A Libyan refugee faces trial in Paris this week after allegedly raping a woman at knifepoint after she hosted him in her home for several weeks. The trial of Libyan refugee Samir L., said to be in his late thirties, began this […]
(BBC) An annual campaign challenging Islamophobia is not being taken seriously enough by wider society, a Bradford Muslim author has said. While Islamophobia Awareness Month had just marked its 10th year, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan said it attracted limited interest beyond Muslim communities. Tackling […]
(Brussels Times) As part of Belgium’s strategy against extremism and terrorism, priority monitoring is being carried out on 624 jihadists, 64 right-wing extremists and 14 left-wing extremists, said Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) in a statement on Friday. According to […]
(Arab News) The husband of Daesh bride Shamima Begum has insisted his marriage to the British schoolgirl was a happy one, the Daily Mail reported. Yago Riedijk, who was 23 when he married Begum, then 15, said the couple enjoyed a good […]
(AP) An Austrian court has convicted three Afghan men for the rape and death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found dumped next to a tree in Vienna last year in a case that shocked the Alpine nation. The Austria Press […]
(Jerusalem Post) German state security sources on Wednesday accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of contracting state-sponsored terrorism against German synagogues in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and spying on the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. According to […]
(AFP) From the white cliffs above Dover, on England’s south coast, it’s possible to watch as migrants who have attempted to cross from northern France in small boats are brought ashore. On Monday, 426 were intercepted, according to government figures. On Tuesday, […]
(AP) Ethnically divided Cyprus ranks first among European Union member nations in the number of migrants it repatriates relative to its population of just over a million people, the country’s interior minister said Thursday. Nearly 7,000 migrants were sent back to their […]
(AFP) UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his counterpart in Tirana Edi Rama on Thursday agreed to do more to stem the flow of Albanians making small-boat crossings of the Channel. Albanians are now the largest single group among record numbers of migrants […]
(Reuters) A migrant paraglided from Morocco over a border fence into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla and eluded authorities, officials said on Thursday. Two witnesses saw the paraglider drifting overhead while they were driving along the ring road surrounding the enclave […]
(AFP) Many hundreds of those who survived the 2016 jihadist attacks on Brussels’ metro and airport were left maimed, traumatised or bereaved. As the trial begins for defendants accused of plotting Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre — which left 32 dead — some […]
(AP) The European Union’s asylum agency said Wednesday that the number of people seeking asylum in Europe has hit a six-year high, with Syrian nationals once again seeking international protection more than people from any other country. The agency said that around […]
(Breitbart) “Hatred of the West” largely inspired rioting Moroccans who flipped cars and set fire to property in Brussels after a World Cup game last Sunday, an expert has claimed. Professor Ruud Koopmans, an expert in migration, integration and transnationalization at the […]
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