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(AL.com) The 29-year-old sister of a Hoover woman who left her family to join ISIS in 2014 was arrested Wednesday in New Jersey as she and her husband prepared to board a cargo ship to go and fight for the terrorist group, […]
(AP) A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should spend the rest of his life behind bars for a “premeditated and vicious” terror attack committed on behalf of Islamic […]
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(CBC) An Ontario woman facing terror-related charges with her husband after they allegedly tried to cross the Turkish border to Syria two years ago has been granted bail. Haleema Mustafa, 23, appeared Wednesday morning via Zoom in Ontario Superior Court in Brampton from […]
(AFP) In a Syrian detention camp for people linked to the Islamic State group, French mother-of-five Emilie Konig has swapped her all-engulfing black robe for a sweatshirt and baseball cap. The 36-year-old widow — who is on UN and US blacklists of […]
(AP) A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a challenge to the constitutionality of the government’s terrorist watchlist, ruling that the government deserves wide latitude in establishing programs designed to protect national security. A group of two dozen Muslim plaintiffs sued in […]
(Copenhagen Post) PM Mette Frederiksen and her government remain opposed to six Danish women, who voluntarily travelled to the Islamic State’s terrorist caliphate in the mid-2010s to be with their IS warrior partners, returning home from two camps in the north of […]
(Kathimerini) Legal procedures have been launched for the extradition to Belgium of three Iraqi nationals who were arrested in Athens last week on European arrest warrants. All three are accused of participating in a ring based in Belgium that trafficked migrants and […]
(BBC) A police fixation with getting armed units to the Manchester Arena after it was bombed impacted the wider emergency response, an inquiry has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told the former police control room manager accepted his staff did not […]
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(BBC) The on-duty fire service commander got lost en route to Manchester on the night the city’s arena was bombed, the inquiry into the attack has heard. John Cooper QC told the Manchester Arena inquiry station manager Andy Berry was “at times […]
(AFP) The children of European jihadists left trapped in a Syrian camp after their fathers’ defeat on the battlefield now face radicalisation in their turn, a Belgian expert warns. Heidi De Pauw, director of the association Child Focus, has visited orphans and […]
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(Age) Two Melbourne brothers and their friend have pleaded guilty to terror offences after planning to buy a firearm with the intention of gunning down members of the public. Ertunc Eriklioglu, 33, Samed Eriklioglu, 28, and Hanifi Halis, 23, all pleaded guilty […]
(AP) A woman who worked as a contract linguist for the U.S. military in Iraq pleaded guilty Friday to sharing classified information with a romantic interest linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Mariam Taha Thompson was arrested last year in an […]
(NCA NewsWire) A sophisticated terror network funding violent extremists has allegedly been uncovered in southeast Queensland, with two men arrested by federal police. The pair were taken into custody on Thursday following a co-ordinated operation in Queensland and Victoria, and charged with […]
(CBC) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it’s “absolutely essential” countries such as Canada repatriate Canadian women and children currently being held in prison camps in Syria. Guterres made the remarks to chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton when asked if the Liberal government’s […]
(AP) A Bangladeshi immigrant who set off a pipe bomb attached to his chest in New York City’s busiest subway station should face no more than the 35-year mandatory prison sentence for his crime because his attack was an aberration from an […]
(AFP) Spanish police said Thursday they had dismantled a ring suspected of financing Al-Qaeda and arrested three men, including the top representative of Spain’s Muslim community. Those detained were suspected of having “exploited an NGO to finance the activities of terrorist fighters,” […]
(Reuters) EU lawmakers should reject a proposed law that forces Google, Facebook and Twitter to remove terrorist content within an hour of publication because of the risks to fundamental rights, 61 civil rights groups said on Thursday. The European Commission drafted the […]
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(BBC) A teenager has pleaded not guilty to 20 terror-related charges. Nuh Raheel denied 10 counts of possession of an article for terrorist purposes, relating to documents including one named 39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad. Appearing via video-link at […]
(BBC) Only seven ambulances were free to treat people when the Manchester Arena explosion took place, the public inquiry into the attack has heard. Dr Edward Tunn, associate medical director for North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), said there was a delay in […]
(AFP) A Pakistani man who attacked the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine last September was radicalised by videos of preachers in his home country and anti-France demonstrations at the time, a report said Wednesday. The 26-year-old had spent the days […]
(KCRA) It was a headline few could forget: A leader of the Islamic State group found in Sacramento. The Iraqi government wanted Omar Ameen arrested and extradited immediately to face trial for murder. That push for hurried extradition, though, turned into a […]
(AP) A German woman accused of taking her son to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and fighting for the extremist group there was arrested Wednesday after landing in Berlin. The woman, identified only as Stefanie A. in line with German privacy rules, […]
(BBC) A paramedic has described the “chaos and confusion” at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing and said initially there were not enough medics. Helen Mottram from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) was triaging patients at Victoria railway station 46 minutes […]
(AFP) Police briefly detained and questioned the top representative of Spain’s Muslim community as part of an investigation into the funding of jihadist organisations, police and government sources said Wednesday. Mohammed Ayman Adlbi, who heads the Islamic Commission of Spain, was arrested […]
(CBC) Kurdish authorities responsible for the prisons and detention camps holding ISIS militants and their family members in northern Syria have accused Canada of shirking its responsibility by failing to bring Canadian women and children home, despite offers of assistance. “Let’s leave […]
(Christian Science Monitor) As Imam Husamuddin Meyer walks through this old city of cobblestone streets and classical architecture in central Germany, many young people pass by and wave to him as though he were a YouTube star. Clad in a turban, the […]
(BBC) Critically ill casualties were “waiting for hours” to be taken to hospital in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has heard. Senior paramedic Joanne Hedges was one of the triage officers overseeing patients who were being treated on […]
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(AP) The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Joe Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment. The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed by […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium is being taken to court by 19 victims of the terror attacks on Brussels Airport and Maelbeek metro station on 22 March 2016. “We accuse the government of a lack of information, a lack of help and inadequate legislation,” […]
(BBC) A paramedic who helped those injured in the Manchester Arena bombing has told the inquiry into the attack about how she struggled to cope afterwards. Lea Vaughan was one of three paramedics who entered the City Room, where the bomb exploded, […]
(AFP) “Aline, Patricia, Leopold, Gilles, Johanna, Loubna …” Five years on, the 32 victims of the Brussels bomb attacks were the focus of Monday’s national day of commemoration. The March 22, 2016, bombings were the worst massacre in the country’s modern peacetime […]
(AP) A top federal appeals court has upheld the terrorism conviction of the wife of a German-born rapper who joined the Islamic State extremist group in Syria and likely died in an airstrike, authorities said Monday. In a decision from March 9, […]
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported a total of 2,764 foreign [terrorist] fighters (FTFs) of 67 different nationalities since 2019, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the FTFs had left their home countries to join ranks of […]
(AFP) It has been five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 32 people in the Belgian capital Brussels, in an attack then-prime minister Charles Michel says changed the country forever. In an AFP interview, Michel — now the president of the European Council […]
(Algemeiner) French Jews commemorated on Friday victims of the horrific 2012 shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, which took place during a days-long killing spree that claimed the lives of seven people. On March 19, 2012, Islamist terrorist Mohamed […]
(Brussels Times) Next Monday, 22 March, sees the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks at Brussels Airport and on the Brussels metro at Maelbeek. But even five years after that shock, the country’s intelligence and security services are unable to work together […]
(BBC) A sergeant who tended to the injured in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing has told of his desperation and frustration at the lack of paramedics. Greater Manchester Police Sgt Kam Hare was in charge of a team of officers […]
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(CBC) They are four young women you might meet in any average Canadian setting: at a university lecture, in an elevator at work or picking their kids up from school. But they’re also being held in a detention camp for the families […]
(NCA NewsWire) A convicted terrorist sympathiser … allegedly began looking up material about executions, beheadings and torture just a day after he was released from jail, a court has heard. Radwan Dakkak, who supports views held by Islamic State, has this week […]
(Age) Two brothers with no criminal history have fronted a court in Melbourne, charged with attempting to plan a terrorist act. Ari Sherani, 20, and Aran Sherani, 19, from the Melbourne suburb of Epping, fronted the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday after […]
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