(National-UAE) Swedish police have been drafted in to question the daughter-in-law of a woman known as the Black Widow as European authorities ramp up efforts to track down and detain her and her ISIS accomplices. The 25-year-old woman, who has not been […]
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(Calgary Herald) Calgary terrorism suspect Jamal Taan Borhot must wait until next week to learn whether he’ll be freed from custody while his case makes its way through the courts. Provincial court Judge Catherine Skene on Wednesday reserved her decision after hearing […]
(AFP) Pakistani farmer Arshad Mehmood has been filled with pride since his son stabbed two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, in the latest attack to expose the violent consequences of blasphemy allegations. Zaheer […]
(NY Times) The United States has repatriated and charged the last Americans believed to be detained in Syria and accused of supporting the Islamic State, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. The move could give the Trump administration a stronger hand in […]
(VOA) A father and son, part of a family of seven who left the United States to join Islamic State in Syria, are back on U.S. soil, charged with supporting the terror group. Emraan Ali, 53, and his 19-year-old son Jihad appeared […]
(Global News) The RCMP investigated the content of a U.S. podcast and “other avenues of information” before charging a Toronto-area man with allegedly faking his involvement in ISIS, the police force said. In a statement to Global News, the RCMP confirmed its […]
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(AFP) A man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with “attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise,” French anti-terrorist prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. A judge also placed the man — […]
(NBC) A new report on terrorism financing shows that for most Americans who sought to join or support ISIS, the trip was cheap and the money came easily, making it harder for investigators to track would-be terrorists. “[S]ave for a few exceptions, […]
(BBC) An “obsessional” Muslim convert who downloaded videos on how to make a suicide vest has been jailed. Liam Fenn, 21, repeatedly accessed an “enormous volume” of extremist material online, Manchester Crown Court heard. He admitted eight counts of possessing a document […]
(Radio France) Twenty-nine people accused of financing jihadists in Syria via cryptocurrency were arrested by police, according to a statement put out by the French anti-terrorism prosecutor (PNAT) on Tuesday. This network has been “active since 2019 and is mainly based on […]
(National-UAE) Attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to expand into central and eastern Europe have failed, a report says. Terrorist attacks in Europe, including the 2015 Paris atrocity and the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings that killed dozens of people, have led to a […]
(Radio Free Europe) The Polish authorities have deported five Tajik nationals suspected of having links to the Islamic State group and recruiting Poles and Ukrainian citizens for terrorist acts in Poland. Radio Poland reported on September 28 that four of the Tajik […]
(BBC) The brothers who carried out the Manchester Arena attack “did not act alone” and others who knew about it are still “at large,” an inquiry has heard. Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb […]
(AP) Italian carabinieri arrested a female foreign fighter on Tuesday after returning her and her four young children to Italy from a displaced person’s camp in Kurdish-controlled territory. The woman, Alice Brignoli, traveled in 2015 with her Moroccan-born husband, Mohamed Koraichi, and […]
(Reuters) A Pakistani man accused of wounding two people with a meat cleaver in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo last Friday did not know the satirical magazine had moved and wanted to set its offices on fire, the Paris […]
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(Boston Herald) Convicted ISIS terrorist David Daoud Wright of Everett — part of a terror cell out to “kill boys in blue” — was resentenced Monday to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision. Wright, brought back to Boston, fought […]
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(AFP) There was confusion Monday over the identity of the man who injured two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week, which was condemned by the French government as an act of “Islamist terrorism.” Investigators said the assailant had […]
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(AFP) French investigators were Sunday studying a video claiming responsibility for the meat cleaver attack in Paris that targeted satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo as the government condemned an act of “Islamist terrorism.” Six people were still in custody, including the suspected perpetrator […]
(Times of Israel) France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday that he had ordered an increase in security at synagogues following a stabbing attack in Paris outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. “I have given instructions that all symbolic […]
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(AFP) A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said Saturday, with nine people now detained over what the government condemned as “Islamist terrorism.” The 18-year-old, named […]
(NCA NewsWire) A large number of terrorism offenders have been released into the community in recent years, leading to a dramatic increase in Australian Federal Police “control orders,” an inquiry has heard. Sixteen control orders related to terror offences have been applied […]
(AFP) A Norwegian court on Friday approved an extradition request from France for a suspect linked to an attack in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris in 1982 that killed six people. Friday’s ruling, which can be appealed, concerns only whether the legal […]
(Canadian Press) RCMP have charged a second Calgary man in an ongoing terrorism investigation. Jamal Taan Borhot, 30, is charged with three counts of participating in terrorist group activity. Police allege he “committed terrorist activities benefitting the terrorist group known as the […]
(Reuters) The stabbing of two people in Paris’s Rue Nicolas-Appert on Friday brought violence back to the street where, five years ago, Islamist militants killed 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two journalists were wounded in Friday’s attack […]
(AFP) A man armed with a meat cleaver wounded two in Paris Friday outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo before being arrested by police, three weeks into the trial of suspected accomplices in the 2015 massacre of the newspaper’s […]
(Global News) A Canadian whose widely-publicized account of conducting executions for ISIS fueled public outrage and debate in the House of Commons has been charged with allegedly making it up. Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, who has portrayed himself as a former ISIS member […]
(Global News) Two months after an alleged former ISIS member was taken into custody in Calgary, the RCMP has confirmed to Global News that it has made another national security arrest in the city. “I can confirm that an individual was arrested […]
(NL Times) Former member of the Hofstad group and convicted terrorist Samir A. helped at least 12 women who are on the national terrorism sanction list escape from ISIS camps in Syria, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said in the court in Rotterdam […]
(BBC) Jurors have been shown CCTV footage said to show the moment two inmates attempted to kill a prison officer. Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and Baz Hockton, 26, deny trying to kill Neil Trundle in a “terror attack” at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, on […]
(Daily Caller) Nationwide protests organized by pro-Palestine and anti-Israel groups featured anti-American rhetoric and support for known terrorist groups, videos from the protests show. Pro-Palestine protests occurred in at least 16 cities including Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Brooklyn, New York, since July 1, […]
(BBC) On 22 November this year it will be exactly eight years since the British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped by the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, along with the American journalist James Foley. Mr Foley was murdered by his captors. […]
(AFP) More than 100 French news outlets on Wednesday called on people to support satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by gunmen in 2015, after its staff received death threats. The magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed earlier this month […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss parliament has tightened measures aimed at preventing extremist violence and organised crime as part of increased international cooperation. The Senate on Wednesday followed the House of Representatives in approving a legal reform, which includes a ban on the […]
(AFP) Three men face trial at Spain’s top criminal court on November 10 over their involvement in the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort that killed 16 people, judicial sources said on Wednesday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for […]
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(KSAT) A Gonzales County man arrested by the FBI in San Antonio this week is accused of providing support to ISIS and discussed carrying out attacks in the United States and overseas on behalf of the terrorist group, federal court records reveal. […]
(WIS) An Elgin man has been named in FBI documents regarding an investigation into a conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. This criminal complaint, from the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, names Elgin […]
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(National-UAE) A senior Al Qaeda-linked leader who played chess during deradicalisation sessions has failed in his legal bid to stop attending a UK counterterrorism course. The extremist, referred to in court papers as QX, had taken his case to London’s High Court, […]
(Jewish Insider) Zoom has denied its services to San Francisco State University for a university-sponsored event scheduled for Wednesday featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled. The event, titled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice & Resistance,” was cosponsored by the university’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities […]
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(Kathimerini) An inquiry by Greek authorities refutes claims that Hezbollah has stashes of ammonium nitrate in several European countries including Greece, sources tell Kathimerini. The probe by the National Intelligence Service, the Citizens’ Protection Ministry and the Hellenic Police has not turned […]
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(WINK) The FBI says suspect Jonathan Guerra-Blanco thought he was talking to other people who could help him release ISIS propaganda videos in multiple languages. But, really, he was talking to FBI online covert employees. “To think that somebody would harm their […]
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