(ANSA) Italian police on Thursday arrested a prison imam at Alessandria for allegedly hailing jihad and calling for the destruction of the Vatican. The man, a Moroccan detainee, allegedly praised terrorist attacks like those on the offices of Paris satirical weekly Charlie […]
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(NY Post) A Brooklyn man who pledged allegiance to ISIS and uploaded instructional manuals online about how to carry out lone-wolf terror attacks in New York was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Wednesday. The suspect, 42-year-old Zachary Clark, pleaded guilty last […]
(Canadian Press) The crown is seeking a life sentence for a teenager who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges including possession of explosive material and counselling someone to detonate a bomb. The youth admitted to the charges, as well as violating his bail […]
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(BBC) A firearms officer tasked with “eliminating” any further terrorist threat after the Manchester Arena blast said it was the “worst feeling” not being able to help casualties. PC Lee Moore and PC James Simkin were the first armed officers to arrive […]
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(BBC) One of the first police officers to arrive at the scene of the Manchester Arena attack has told a public inquiry he was desperate to get emergency responders in to treat the injured. PC Edward Richardson said the incident should have […]
(VOA) Nearly 200 jihadists imprisoned in France are due to be released over the next two years and French security officials are pressing French lawmakers to approve fresh antiterrorist measures to impose enhanced restrictions on those freed and to give police new […]
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(AP) Serene, stark and seemingly in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service memorial to the people who died on United Airlines Flight 93 is hard to find on a map — as the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack […]
(Breitbart) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is “acting as the press secretary for Hamas,” the Palestinian terror organization, after she tweeted false information about recent clashes in Gaza. Omar, who is staunchly anti-Israel, and has a […]
(Jewish Journal) Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) accused the Israeli government of committing an “act of terrorism” with its airstrikes into the Gaza Strip on May 10. The Israeli strikes were in response to Hamas bombarding Israel with rockets earlier in the day. […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge Monday refused to release on bond an accused Islamic State soldier captured on a Syrian battlefield three years ago, saying there is a risk the Dearborn man could flee the state. U.S. District Judge David Lawson said […]
(BBC) A radio operator felt “overwhelmed” and “sick” when he was given a key control room role after the Manchester Arena bombing for which he had no experience or training, an inquiry heard. David Myerscough, a civilian staff member at Greater Manchester […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) An Australian man accused of supporting and recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Syria has faced court in Melbourne after being deported from Turkey where he had been jailed for links to the terrorist group. Mohamed Zuhbi, 30, had […]
(NCA NewsWire) Accused Islamic State facilitator Mohamed Zuhbi is back on Australian shores after being deported from Turkey. Zuhbi was wanted here and in the US for his alleged role with the terrorist group after leaving Australia eight years ago, bound for […]
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(Detroit News) An accused Islamic State soldier from Dearborn has threatened to kill his lawyer if released on bond, federal prosecutors say, but his legal team is trying to free him anyway. The alleged threat, Ibraheem Musaibli’s support of violent extremism and contempt for the United […]
(AFP) The United States will join an international bid to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House said Friday, some two years after the Trump administration declined to do so. Biden administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington “will join the Christchurch […]
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(AFP) An Italian court has approved the extradition to France of a man implicated in the deadly Bastille Day attack in Nice in 2016, the AGI news agency reported. Endri Elezi, a 28-year-old Albanian, was arrested on April 21 on a warrant […]
(BBC) A police chief who broke policy on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing “to save lives” said he would do it again if a similar attack happened. Ch Insp Dale Sexton declared Operation Plato, a pre-arranged terrorist plan, within minutes […]
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(Breitbart) Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris. The more than 2,000 text messages sent during Brahim Aouissaoui’s voyage from […]
(BBC) The emergency services’ response to the Manchester Arena attack was “commendable” and “almost faultless,” a police chief has said. Ch Insp Dale Sexton, from Greater Manchester Police (GMP), was the force duty officer in the control room. He told the inquiry […]
(AP) A German man has been extradited from Senegal to face allegations of membership in an al-Qaida-linked extremist group, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Marius A., whose last name was not provided in line with German privacy laws, was arrested upon his arrival […]
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(Reuters) An Iranian diplomat sentenced to 20 years in prison for planning a bomb attack in France has dropped an appeal in Belgium and will serve his sentence, his representative said on Wednesday. Belgian authorities have said they will oppose any potential […]
(BBC) A police chief told the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena attack he deliberately broke policy on the night of the 2017 bombing “to save lives.” Ch Insp Dale Sexton from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was the force duty officer in […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Wednesday that Germany has banned the Islamist organization Ansaar International and several of its sub-organizations. “The network finances terrorism worldwide with donations,” Seehofer’s spokesman Steve Alter tweeted on Wednesday. Alter quoted Seehofer as saying: “If you want to […]
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(MPR) A New Brighton, Minn., man who admitted being part of the far-right Boogaloo Bois militia group on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge. Michael Robert Solomon, 31, got on the FBI’s radar last year, when he was seen carrying […]
(Swiss Info) Despite multiple pleas from international bodies, Switzerland refuses to repatriate adult detainees from Syrian camps, a policy that effectively leaves seven Swiss children stranded in the war-torn country. They were just four and nine years old, when in 2016 their […]
(AFP) A Norwegian court on Tuesday sentenced a woman who lived as a housewife in Syria to prison for being a member of the Islamic State group (IS), despite not actively fighting herself. The Oslo court sentenced the Norwegian-Pakistani woman to three […]
(AFP) A French court on Tuesday acquitted far-right leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on charges she broke hate-speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities. Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after Islamic […]
During his April 28 speech to Congress, President Biden asserted that white supremacism is currently the most lethal terrorist threat to the country, implicitly downplaying the threat posed by Islamist terror. The Biden administration has yet to clarify its attitude toward Islamism, […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government acted lawfully when it stripped six Dutch-Moroccan dual citizens of their Netherlands nationality on allegations that they traveled to Syria to join Islamic extremist group ISIS or other terrorist groups. The Council of State issued a ruling on Friday […]
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(Brisbane Times) An Australian man accused of being an ISIS supporter claimed he received a false Venezuelan passport after someone approached him in a shopping centre five years ago, a Brisbane court has heard. Ahmed Luqman Talib, 31, from Doncaster East in […]
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(CBC) Hamilton native Kimberly Polman is among former ISIS brides featured in The Return: Life After ISIS by Alba Sotorra Clua and her Barcelona-based production company, and the filmmaker hopes the new documentary will give insight into the issues surrounding repatriation. Sotorra Clua said the documentary, currently […]
(Reuters) French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute in a nationally televised ceremony on Friday to an administrative police worker stabbed to death last week at a police station, saying she was [a] victim of “Islamist terrorism.” The killing of Stephanie Monferme, […]
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