(Age) Convicted terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika faces deportation from Australia if he is released from prison, after having his citizenship cancelled by the federal government. Benbrika has completed a 15-year jail term over a plot to bomb Melbourne’s Crown casino […]
(JNS) Reema Dodin, announced on Monday as a deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs for the incoming Biden administration, once praised suicide bombers during the Second Intifada. In 2002, Dodin, then a student at the University of California, […]
(AP) A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a terror charge for plotting to bomb or shoot up sites including the White House and Trump Tower in New York City in attacks inspired by the Islamic State group, federal authorities said […]
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(Global News) The first person to be convicted of trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group remains “too high a risk” a month before his scheduled release from prison, according to the Parole Board of Canada. In a decision released […]
(Reuters) A Swiss woman grabbed a woman by the neck and wounded another in the neck with a serrated knife in a department store in the southern Swiss city of Lugano on Tuesday in what federal prosecutors called a suspected terror attack. […]
(Brussels Times) A court in Antwerp has sent a 24-year-old man back to jail for two years over a fake bomb threat sent out via Twitter last year. In October of last year, a man identified as Wildi E. sent out a […]
(Kathimerini) The 27-year-old from Syria who allegedly confessed to police that he was a member of ISIS will appear before an investigative magistrate after asking for a deferral on Monday. He appeared in court on Monday morning wearing a bulletproof vest and […]
(Anadolu) As racism and discrimination against Muslims in Austria soars, particularly after a terror attack on Nov. 2, clerics in the European country warn the authorities not to associate terrorism with any religion. After a hijab and face veil ban, and ban […]
(Kathimerini) A 27-year-old Syrian man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization is due to testify to an Athens magistrate Monday, following his arrest in the Greek capital last Thursday. The unnamed suspect entered Greece in March 2018 […]
(BBC) A man who downloaded instructions on how to carry out terror attacks, and images of beheadings, has been jailed for 32 months. Zakaria Yanaouri, 21, of Congreve Road, Worthing, was arrested in a raid on his home 24 February. He pleaded […]
(BBC) Allowing runaway Shamima Begum to return to the UK to challenge her loss of British citizenship “would create significant national security risks,” the Supreme Court has been told. Ms Begum, 21, was one of three east London schoolgirls who joined the […]
(BBC) An American boy who was made to threaten President Donald Trump in an Islamic State group video says it was “sweet relief” to return to the US. Matthew, taken to Syria by his mother and stepfather, was 10 when he was […]
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(Deutsche Welle) In response to a parliamentary question by the Green Party, Germany’s BKA Federal Criminal Police Office revealed there are currently 124 “high risk” Islamists at large in the country. The agency also listed 151 people as posing a “moderate risk.” The BKA’s […]
(AP) One of three Americans acclaimed as heroes for tackling an alleged Islamic State gunman aboard a Paris-bound train testified Friday that he tried to kill the man who stormed into their passenger car with an arsenal of weapons. Alek Skarlatos, 28, […]
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(AP) A 27-year-old Syrian man accused of taking part in executions carried out by the Islamic State group was arrested Thursday at a refugee camp in Greece’s capital. Authorities said the suspect was arrested at the camp in Athens early in the […]
(Reuters) Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed train in France in 2015. The testimony was given in the […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A Pennsylvania husband and wife originally from Bangladesh pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Philadelphia to providing support to family members who joined ISIS, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Shahidul Gaffar, 40, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and his wife, […]
(Reuters) A French court has ruled that Clint Eastwood cannot testify during the trial of a suspected Islamist gunman, whose attack on a high-speed train was thwarted by three Americans, who later played themselves in a movie by the U.S. actor and […]
(BBC) A police counter-terrorism security adviser said prior to the Manchester bombing the risk of an attack on crowds leaving an event was not considered. Liz Forster, Greater Manchester Police’s principal adviser, told the public inquiry into the arena attack: “It’s changed […]
(BBC) The police emergency plan for Manchester Arena was nearly a year out of date when the venue was bombed, an officer has told the attack inquiry. Emergency planner PC Katrina Hughes said she had struggled to keep plans up to date […]
(El País) Up until January 2017, Cristina B. was like any other young woman in Cullera, a small town in the Spanish region of Valencia. On social media, the 24-year-old was seen dressed as a fallera, wearing an elaborate traditional dress used […]
(Global News) A Canadian accused by the RCMP of falsely claiming he had been an ISIS executioner in Syria appeared in Ontario court on Monday to face a terrorism hoax charge. It was the first court appearance for Shehroze Chaudhry since his […]
(AP) An Amsterdam appeals court upheld Monday the terror conviction of an Afghan asylum-seeker who stabbed two American tourists, seriously injuring them, at Amsterdam’s main railway station in 2018. The court said in a statement that judges slightly reduced the sentence of […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man and three alleged accomplices went on trial in France Monday for an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago that was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Hollywood legend […]
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(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has called the New York Times media correspondent to criticize English-language coverage of France’s stance on Islamic extremism after recent attacks, arguing it amounts to “legitimizing” violence. “When France was attacked five years ago, every nation in […]
(Olive Press) A young woman who was planning to join jihadist terrorists in Syria has been arrested in Spain. Police say the woman — born and raised in Europe — had been rapidly radicalised and now wanted to join the so-called Islamic […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man goes on trial in France on Monday accused of an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago which was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Director Clint Eastwood, 90, […]
(AP) European Union interior ministers pledged Friday to beef up border security, boost the powers of the bloc’s police agency and crack down on hate speech and online propaganda in response to a wave of extremist attacks, most recently in Austria and […]
(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who killed three people at a French church last month had a picture on his phone of the man who beheaded a teacher two weeks earlier, anti-terror prosecutors said Friday. In addition to the photograph of 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov […]
(Reuters) Five years after Islamist killers struck in postwar France’s deadliest attack, its prime minister on Friday paid tribute to the victims, with the country again on high alert following a new wave of ideologically driven violence. The Nov. 13, 2015, rampage […]
(Reuters) Austria is investigating 21 people as possible accomplices of the jihadist who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna last week, but much remains unknown, including how he got to the area of the attack, officials said on Friday. The […]
(BBC) Plans to introduce a new law to improve safety and security at public venues and spaces has been delayed due to Covid-19, an inquiry has heard. The proposed legislation was drawn up following terrorist attacks in 2017 including the Manchester Arena […]
(AFP) German federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had charged a German woman with crimes against humanity allegedly committed while she was living in Syria as a member of the Islamic State jihadist group. The suspect, identified only as Nurten J. and […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A young man who bought knives from a western Sydney gun shop in preparation for an imminent terrorist attack has been jailed for at least 12 years after a judge described him as a committed terrorist. The man continually […]
(Reuters) Austria plans to make it possible for courts to imprison those convicted of terrorism-related offences for as long as they are deemed a threat, the government said on Wednesday. The move follows a shooting rampage in Vienna last week in which […]
(Global News) An Ottawa man convicted of trying to join ISIS has been granted overnight privileges after telling the Parole Board of Canada he wanted to visit a ski resort with his girlfriend. Carlos Larmond had been required to spend nights at […]
(BBC) The head of security at Manchester Arena on the night of a terror attack there had raised concerns four months earlier that risk assessments for the venue were not “extensive enough,” an inquiry heard. Tom Rigby, who works for Showsec, also […]
(AFP) Five years after a squad of jihadist killers carried out France’s deadliest peacetime atrocity, the country is again on its highest security alert following a spate of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015, saw […]
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(AFP) Seven men and a woman will stand trial in France for alleged links to the perpetrator of the 2016 attack in Nice that killed 86 people when he rammed a truck into Bastille Day revellers. The three main suspects, Mohamed Ghraieb, […]
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) A St. Louis County woman was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison for helping supply money and equipment to a man who fought and died in Syria for the Islamic State. Sedina Hodzic also will be deported […]
(Reuters) The EU plans to tighten its rules to combat online extremism, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting this week between ministers under pressure to beef up security following deadly attacks in France and […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron has stirred controversy even beyond the Muslim world with a staunch defence of the French model for secularism and integration of minorities in the wake of a string of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The approach of Macron […]
(BBC) Staff were not expected to check an area at Manchester Arena where Salman Abedi hid for nearly an hour before the venue bombing, a security boss said. Venue operator SMG and security provider Showsec had opposing views on whose responsibility it […]
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