(Free Beacon) The Biden White House and Senate Democrats have touted their funding for an anti-terrorism initiative they say “has been critical to the security of Jewish institutions.” But the program has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months to […]
(National Post) Hassan Diab, the Ottawa sociology professor who was convicted in absentia in 2023 of a deadly synagogue bombing in France, is “not currently employed” at Carleton University, the school says. In the fall, Diab taught a course at Carleton called […]
(AP) The Islamic State group-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Year’s Day in New Orleans fired at police from inside his vehicle before officers fatally shot him, police bodycam footage released Friday shows. “They killed the […]
(Politico) Shamima Begum, who left the U.K. to join ISIS while at school, will not be allowed to leave Syria and return to Britain, the government’s top diplomat confirmed Thursday — despite urging from Donald Trump’s incoming team. Foreign Secretary David Lammy […]
(LBC) Sebastian Gorka told LBC that he isn’t “telling the UK what to do,” but that any “serious ally of the US” should be committed to counter-terrorism to protect the so-called special relationship between the UK and US. The incoming counter-terrorism chief […]
(Radio France) French Jewish leaders joined politicians, rights campaigners and some 200 people in eastern Paris on Thursday to mark 10 years since four people were killed in a terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket. The ceremony took place outside the Hypercacher […]
(LBC) The world’s most wanted ISIS woman terrorist is alive and living freely in Syria, 10 years after taking part in a notorious attack in Paris. Hayat [Boumedienne], 36, and her lover Amedy Coulibaly, then 32, were also part of the Charlie […]
(Fox) A federal appeals court has delayed Friday’s scheduled military court hearing where suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-conspirators were expected to plead guilty as part of a deal negotiated with prosecutors. The pause, though welcomed by the many […]
(AP) After his only child was killed on 9/11, Ken Fairben looked for justice in a far-off military courtroom on the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba. He traveled there multiple times to observe hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh […]
(Arab News) The UAE designated 19 individuals and entities as terrorists on Wednesday due to their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as a terror group in the UAE. Abu Dhabi placed 11 individuals and eight entities on the country’s […]
(National Post) An Islamic group facing a withering reception to plans for a conference dedicated to overthrowing governments to start a Muslim caliphate has issued a rare media statement denying it poses a security risk, and accusing critics of creating fake news. […]
(Fox) Top Republicans in Congress are introducing a new bill to stop the White House from offering plea deals to suspected 9/11 terrorists. A pretrial agreement between the 9/11 defendants and the government removed the death penalty as a possibility for punishment, […]
(AP) After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is reaching a pivotal moment this month. Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the future of many of those last […]
(NBC) The New Orleans truck attacker built two bombs using what investigators believe was an explosive so powerful that they could have sprayed shrapnel hundreds of yards and potentially killed or wounded hundreds of people. The bombs did not detonate on New […]
(Global News) The terrorist threat in Canada “has rarely been higher,” according to a report released on Wednesday in the aftermath of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. “The bottom line: Terrorism in Canada is on the rise,” said the […]
(CBC) The Mounties are asking Canadians to come forward with any information that can help U.S. authorities probe the attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Early that morning a man drove a pickup truck along a […]
(Radio France) The attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on 7 January 2015 triggered a wave of violence against Muslims across France and called into question the country’s approach to freedom of expression. The 2015 attack by the Paris-born Kouachi brothers, of Algerian descent, was […]
(AP) A decade after Islamic extremist gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core and ignited a global outcry in defense of freedom of speech, the nation paused on Tuesday […]
(Radio France) A decade after jihadists stormed its Paris newsroom killing eight staff members, satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is charting an ambitious course for its next 10 years. Chief editor [Gérard] Biard tells RFI the paper remains resolute in its mission to […]
(BBC) A 25-year-old man has denied helping former soldier Daniel Khalife after his escape from Wandsworth Prison in September 2023. Imran Chowdhury of Chingford in north-east London pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to a charge of assisting an escaped prisoner. […]
(AP) The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the […]
(NBC) A common chemical used for explosives was discovered in a Texas storage locker linked to the Army veteran who killed 14 people and injured more than two dozen others when he plowed into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, law enforcement […]
(Belga) Belgian-Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah plans to take legal action over threatening social media posts from an Israeli minister, who referred to Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah. The threat comes shortly after Abou Jahjah and his organisation Hind Rajab Foundation filed […]
(Jerusalem Post) Dyab Abou Jahjah, the man behind the Hind Rajab Foundation, which has been doxxing Israeli soldiers and seeking legal action against them in foreign states, admitted to joining Hezbollah as a youth and implied that he was returning to Lebanon […]
(AFP) French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Monday ordered increased security at major gatherings following vehicle ramming attacks in Germany and the United States. Retailleau sought “optimal security conditions” in a memo to officials seen by AFP. “Given the high level of […]
(Euro Weekly) 81 people in Spain were detained for jihadism-related crimes in 2024, making this the highest number of jihad terrorism arrests for the second consecutive year, since 2004. The arrests of the four Moroccan-born teenagers from Elche just before Christmas who […]
(NY Times) The U.S. military sent 11 Yemeni prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to Oman to restart their lives, the Pentagon said on Monday, leaving just 15 men in the prison in a bold push at [the] end of the Biden administration that […]
(LBC) A man has been charged with aiding ex-British Army officer Daniel Khalife after he escaped from a south London prison. Imran Chowdury, 25, from Chingford in east London, is accused of helping the 23-year-old former soldier after he busted out of […]
(National Post) A controversial Canadian Islamic group is resurrecting its annual conference calling for the return of an Islamic caliphate and imposition of Shariah law that was abruptly cancelled last year after its sister organization was declared a terrorist entity in Britain. […]
(BBC) Exactly 10 years after the jihadist gun attack that killed most of its editorial staff, France’s Charlie Hebdo has put out a special issue to show its cause is still kicking. Things changed for France on 7 January 2015, marking in […]
(ABC) Investigators continue to uncover more details about the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans and the suspect’s apparent plot to detonate explosives in addition to the deadly truck-ramming incident. ABC News has obtained never-before-seen images of the IEDs discovered after […]
(CNN) It is the deadliest attack by an ISIS supporter on the West in several years. But still, almost a week later, the group also known as Islamic State has yet to issue its trademark claim of responsibility for the horrific New […]
(BBC) A woman who applied to be a teacher at an Islamic Sunday school has been found guilty of possessing a terrorist document. Dzhamilya Timaeva, 20, from Windsor, Berkshire, had an Islamic State group video that encouraged viewers to carry out arson […]
(Radio France) Ten years after the 2015 terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, the trial of the man who was behind an attack outside the magazine’s former offices in 2020 opened at a special juvenile court in Paris Monday. Zaheer Mahmood […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint last week against an IDF soldier vacationing in Brazil, accusing him of “participating in massive demolitions of civilian homes in Gaza during a systematic campaign of destruction.” Subsequently, the Brazilian Federal Court […]
(Daily Wire) Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) said during an interview over the weekend that dozens of illegal aliens smuggled into the U.S. by an ISIS-affiliated network have gone missing. Banks made the remarks during a Sunday CNN interview on “State of the […]
(Canadian Press) Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says the Canada Border Services Agency has confirmed that the man behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans travelled to Ontario in July 2023. The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it’s […]
(AP) The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with Meta smart glasses, an FBI official said Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar […]
(AFP) French authorities on Sunday held three Algerians suspected of inciting violence in TikTok videos, with at least two of them facing terror-related charges. The arrests come amid growing political tensions between Paris and its former North African colony. A video blogger […]
(Swiss Info) The number of active terrorism investigations in Switzerland has doubled since 2022, according to the country’s top prosecutor. There are 120 cases of suspected terrorism currently being conducted in Switzerland, Attorney General Stefan Blättler said in an interview with the […]
(NY Times) His electric truck was already headed toward New Orleans, traveling from his trailer home outside Houston and past the twinkling oil refineries to the east, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar began capturing a video on his phone in the dark. “I wanted […]
(Morocco World News) French authorities have arrested two Algerian social media influencers on Friday, for allegedly making terrorist threats and inciting violence through TikTok videos. The second arrest came just hours after the first one, as announced by French Interior Minister Bruno […]
(AFP) An Algerian online influencer will stand trial in France next month, accused of inciting terrorism on TikTok, prosecutors said Saturday. The 25-year-old suspect was remanded in custody on Friday in the western city of Brest, prosecutor Camille Miansoni said in a […]
(DPA) The suspect in the deadly car-ramming incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg had appeared in seven investigative proceedings in the two years prior to the attack, dpa has learned from security sources. According to the information, […]
(Western Standard) Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish has responded following revelations that an Islamic extremist group designated a terrorist entity across the world is set to host a conference in her city on January 18. She vowed to “try to track down” the […]
(Daily Wire) Another imam of a mosque near the home of the suspected ISIS member behind the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans went on an anti-Semitic rant this summer where he accused Jews of “creating havoc everywhere.” Fifteen people […]
(ABC) The suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year’s had traveled to Egypt in 2023 for about a month, his half-brother told ABC News. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran and U.S.-born […]
(Reuters) U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are concerned about copycat vehicle-ramming attacks following the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans by a U.S. Army veteran, according to a U.S. law enforcement intelligence bulletin published on Friday. The bulletin was issued […]
(AP) The man who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the vehicle used in the deadly attack more than six weeks earlier, law enforcement officials […]
(European Conservative) Just a few days before the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, the French authorities have arrested an Algerian TikToker based in Brittany, who was using his TikTok account to invite his […]
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