(NL Times) A Syrian man arrested two weeks ago in Vlissingen was under investigation for several crimes related to terrorism, including a possible plot to launch an attack around Christmastime, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) said on Tuesday. The 29-year-old “may […]
(ANSA) Lawyers for Italy’s Palestinian Association president Mohammad Hannoun, accused of being the kingpin in a scam for allegedly siphoning charitable donations to Hamas, said Monday their arrested client had always operated in a traceable manner. A meeting between Hannoun, a Jordanian […]
(ANSA) The president of the Association of Palestinians in Italy has been arrested on suspicion of siphoning off charitable donations to Gaza and diverting them to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The man, Mohammad Hannoun, was among nine people named on arrest […]
(Euronews) Italian police arrested nine people accused of financing Hamas through charitable associations that investigators said raised at least €7.3 million for the Palestinian militant group. Police and the Guardia di Finanza executed arrest warrants and seized more than €8 million in […]
(Yle) Helsinki District Court has released three men suspected of financing a terrorist group. Two of the suspects were released last Friday and the third on Tuesday this week. However, the District Court has imposed an enhanced travel ban on the men, who […]
(BBC) Two men who plotted to attack Jews in Greater Manchester in what could have been “the UK’s most deadly terrorist attack” were caught by an undercover operative who put himself in “significant danger,” police said. Walid Saadaoui, 38, arranged to smuggle […]
(Sky News) Two Islamic State extremists have been found guilty of plotting a deadly gun attack on Manchester’s Jewish community. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday. They had bought […]
(BBC) A 23-year-old man has been charged with being a member of the Islamic State group. Abdullah Yousef, of Galapagos Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, was arrested on 16 December and charged with a string of terrorism offences on Monday. Mr Yousef […]
(GB News) A Palestinian migrant who arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel on a small boat has been released from prison after calling for the “death to all Jews.” Abu Wadee, 34, was jailed for nine months for attempting to enter […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government has proposed legislation that would make it illegal to glorify terrorism or publicly support terrorist organizations, citing the growing threat such acts pose to national security and the democratic rule of law. The bill, which has completed […]
(Jewish News) A pro-Palestinian activist who allegedly chanted “I love 7 October” during an anti-Israel protest has been charged by the Metropolitan police after the CPS repeatedly declined to take the case further. Police arrested Mohamed Hassn, of Unwin Way, Stanmore, on […]
(NL Times) A 23-year-old man who killed a German man and injured another in a stabbing attack at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge on September 19, 2024, will receive treatment under forced psychiatric supervision (TBS with involuntary care), the court ruled Friday, concluding that […]
(European Conservative) Three of the five men arrested in Bavaria over an alleged Islamist plot to attack a Christmas market entered Germany on skilled-worker visas, according to a report by Bild. German authorities last week detained the five suspects over plans to […]
(AFP) The second Frenchwoman to be repatriated from Syrian camps holding Islamic State (IS) members and displaced people was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in prison. Carole Sun, 30, was found guilty of participating in a terrorist criminal conspiracy by a […]
(TVP) Poland’s recent arrest of a 19-year-old university student accused of plotting a bomb attack on a Christmas market has reignited concerns about how radicalization can take root far from traditional conflict zones and often beyond the immediate view of security services. […]
(NL Times) A 33-year-old man seeking asylum in the Netherlands was taken into custody by Dutch authorities on allegations he was plotting a terrorist attack. The Syrian man was arrested in Dronten, Flevoland, on Nov. 28 at the facility for asylum seekers […]
(Deutsche Welle) Authorities in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt say they are preparing to deport a 21-year-old Central Asian man on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Germany. State criminal police say the man, who arrived in Germany in June 2024, […]
(European Conservative) An Italian appeal court has ordered the release of a Turin-based imam who had praised the October 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel, ruling that his remarks did not pose an immediate threat to public security. Mohamed Shahin, a 46-year-old Egyptian […]
(Notes from Poland) Poland has detained a man who was allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a Christmas market as an act of support for Islamic State. Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesman for the security services, announced on Tuesday morning that the suspect […]
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have searched the home of a suspected supporter of the “Islamic State” militant group in the state of Baden-Württemberg amid concerns about possible attack planning. Prosecutors and state police said on Tuesday that officers searched the apartment of […]
(Deutsche Welle) The trial against Farhad N., a 25-year-old Afghan man accused of driving a car into a crowd of people in Munich this February, began at the city’s Higher Regional Court on Tuesday. The defendant faces two counts of murder and […]
(National-UAE) A 38-year-old French woman repatriated from Syria in 2022 after joining ISIS in Syria has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Details of the life of the woman, known as Lucie C, were discussed during a three-day trial at the […]
(Reuters) Two British-Lebanese men appeared in a London court on Tuesday, charged with belonging to the banned Iran-backed group Hezbollah and attending terrorism training camps, with one of the two accused of helping procure parts for drones. Annis Makki, 40, is charged […]
(BBC) A 22-year-old man who promoted “violent jihad” by sharing online content has been jailed. A mobile phone found at Cameron Gloria De Almeida’s home in Leeds linked him to a cloud-based storage account he had used “to share electronic libraries of […]
(AFP) A Syrian man who was arrested at the scene of a stabbing that killed a teen and wounded five others in Austria has admitted terror offences, prosecutors said on Monday. The 23-year-old suspect was detained in February in the southern city […]
(Swiss Info) A 25-year-old man was detained ahead of last May’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel after allegedly making violent threats against Jewish people. He was later deported to France by the Swiss authorities. The event was intended as a celebration of […]
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have arrested five men suspected of planning an attack on a Christmas market, the Munich public prosecutor’s office said Saturday. What do we know so far? The foiled plot was targeting a Christmas market in the area of Dingolfing in the […]
(BBC) An alleged associate of Manchester synagogue attacker Jihad Al-Shamie is to face trial accused of driving him to survey the UK’s Defence Academy to carry out hostile reconnaissance. Mohammad Bashir, 31, of Shaftsbury Road, Manchester, appeared by videolink at the Old […]
(Jewish News) An independent MP elected on a pro-Gaza platform has shared a social media post alleging that Israel was responsible for the deaths of the Bibas family, who were taken hostage in Gaza. The post shared by Iqbal Mohamed, MP for […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands remains at a “substantial” risk of terrorism, with the national threat level held at 4, the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) reported in its December 2025 threat assessment. The NCTV said the current threat reflects […]
(Algemeiner) Hamas operatives have pushed far beyond Gaza, embedding themselves across Europe — and now posing a growing threat inside the United Kingdom, where covert arms caches and active attack plots have put intelligence services on high alert, according to a new […]
(NL Times) The Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security is warning that terrorist attacks in the Netherlands are increasingly committed by individuals acting alone, a shift that authorities say makes plots harder to detect and stop. The new warning appears in […]
(Breitbart) The wife and children of a Somalian ISIS leader are reportedly living in taxpayer-funded accommodation in Britain. The purported global leader of the so-called Islamic State terrorist network, Abdul Qadir Mumin, has a wife and three children living in a council apartment […]
(Jerusalem Post) A Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker who seemingly praised the October 7 Hamas attack was selected to design the biggest and most visible space in Oslo’s new Government Quarter, which will open in 2026. Jumana Manna, who was raised in […]
(BBC) A man who allegedly drove the Manchester synagogue attacker to survey a UK defence site has appeared in court. Mohammad Asim Bashir, 31, is accused of driving Jihad Al-Shamie to UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on 14 August for a […]
(Sky News) A convicted terrorist from Iraq who entered the UK illegally has been sentenced to more than two years in jail. Rebwar Hamad, 48, from Iraq, arrived with other migrants on 19 September and later pleaded guilty to entering the country […]
(National-UAE) The British government has put the Muslim Brotherhood under “close review,” with the prospect that it could be banned from the UK. The prime minister’s official spokesman has confirmed to the National that the extremist group, which seeks close ties to […]
(BBC) A man has been charged with terror offences after allegations he drove the Manchester synagogue attacker to survey a UK defence facility. Mohammad Asim Bashir, 31, who lives in Cheetham Hill, north Manchester, has been charged with one count of preparation […]
(BBC) On the morning of 2 October, father-of-four Yoni Finlay was nervous as he prepared to help lead Yom Kippur prayers at his synagogue for the first time. But not long after the service began, 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie launched a deadly attack […]
(Euronews) Germany arrested two Iraqi nationals suspected of membership in the so-called Islamic State group (IS) on Tuesday in coordinated raids across five cities, the federal public prosecutor announced on Wednesday. Muthana S and Kais S J were detained in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, […]
(Brussels Times) The federal prosecutor has demanded a ten-year prison sentence for a man being prosecuted for attempted murder with a terrorist motive, among other charges. On the evening of 17 January, a 35-year-old man from Borgerhout recklessly drove his car at […]
(ITV) The brother of a man accused of plotting to kill Jewish people at a mass gathering in Manchester has told a jury that he thought he was being “abducted or kidnapped” when police came to arrest him. Bilel Saadaoui claimed six […]
(AFP) Two minors, including a Russian national, have been placed in custody in Paris on suspicion of plotting an antisemitic attack, according to judicial and press sources. The Russian, a Chechen 16-year-old who came to France with his mother four years ago, […]
(BBC) A Green Party councillor and chair of one of the region’s biggest mosques faces a possible three-year charity suspension imposed by the Charity Commission after sharing a social media post about the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel. Abdul Malik was […]
(Dutch News) An Amersfoort man who stabbed another man to death on the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam last September and seriously injured a second should be jailed for 20 years, followed by psychiatric prison, the public prosecution department said at his trial […]
(NL Times) The trial against Ayoub M. from Amersfoort, the man suspected of a fatal knife attack at [Erasmus] Bridge in Rotterdam in September last year, starts in the high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport on Monday. The now 23-year-old man is facing […]
(BBC) Police have been given more time to question a 31-year-old man arrested in connection with the attack on a synagogue in Manchester earlier this year. He was arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism after arriving […]
(Deutsche Welle) In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the “Islamic State” (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as […]
(ITV) A woman in Jersey is facing terrorism charges, accused of using social media to invite support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Both groups are proscribed terrorist organisations, which means it is an offence to promote them. The case against Natalie Strecker, 50, […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court said Friday it had ordered psychiatric internment for a Moroccan man who murdered a church official in a 2023 machete attack that horrified the country. Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court dismissed terrorism charges for the attacks at two […]
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