(National-UAE) Almost 120 terrorist plots were uncovered across Europe last year, resulting in more than 1,000 arrests. ISIS was responsible for all but one of the 10 people killed. The latest figures covering terrorist incidents in 2019 have been revealed in Europol’s […]
(Democrat and Chronicle) The upper echelons of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security paint Adham Amin Hassoun as a terrorist so dangerous he should not be set free on American soil. That said, federal officials have a dilemma with Hassoun, […]
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(AP) France’s counter-terrorism prosecutors made a formal request Tuesday for nine suspects to face trial in connection with the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead. In a statement following the end of a judicial investigation, the […]
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(AFP) A US soldier with links to neo-Nazis plotted to have Islamic extremists attack his unit in Turkey in hopes of sparking a new “10-year war” in the Middle East, the Justice Department charged Monday. An indictment unsealed in New York said […]
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(AFP) The government said Monday it had brought home 10 French children of jihadist fighters overnight from a refugee camp in Syria, the latest in a piecemeal repatriation process since the Islamic State group was ousted from its Syrian base in March […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Jerusalem Post can reveal that the domestic intelligence agency for Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia tracked a rise of Hezbollah members last year. According to the June report, the number of Hezbollah members increased from 110 in 2018 […]
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(BBC) Three people have died and three more have been seriously injured after stabbings in a park in Reading, police confirmed. A 25-year-old man from Reading has been arrested on suspicion of murder after being detained at the scene. The attack happened […]
(Helsinki Times) A task force at the Ministry of Justice is recommending that the anti-terrorism legislation be amended by criminalising the performance of tasks crucial for the criminal activities of terrorist organisations, writes Helsingin Sanomat. Public incitement to terrorism should similarly be […]
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(AP) A former Chicago businessman imprisoned for aiding terrorist groups has been arrested in Los Angeles to face murder charges in India for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed more than 160 people, U.S. prosecutors said Friday. Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-born […]
(Brussels Times) A police officer in Brussels has been jailed for four years after prosecutors found he had acted as an informant for the brother of a man seen as the mastermind of the Brussels and Paris attacks. The 53-year-old officer with […]
(Swiss Info) The House of Representatives has approved new anti-terrorism legislation aimed at preventing extremist violence. But it didn’t approve preventive detention of potential terror offenders. The Swiss government has proposed new legislation aimed at preventing extremist violence and forcing people deemed […]
(NL Times) Police in the Netherlands arrested a 24-year-old Syrian man on Tuesday at a reception center for people seeking asylum in the country. The man was accused of involvement in a terrorist organization, and was taken into custody in Balk, a […]
(Democrat and Chronicle) A federal courtroom in Rochester next week will be the battleground for a constitutional tug-of-war as authorities try to keep jailed a man once imprisoned for terrorism crimes and who is now facing deportation. The hearing will test the […]
(Jerusalem Post) The number of Hezbollah members and supporters in the German state of Lower Saxony increased from 150 in 2018 to 160 in 2019, according to a damning new intelligence report released in late May. The report said that in “Lower […]
(National-UAE) The UK’s counter-extremism tsar is calling on the government to overhaul urgently its terror legislation to ensure extremists are not exploiting gaps in the law. The head of the Commission for Countering Extremism, Sara Khan, has launched a legal review into […]
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(Global News) Alleged ISIS recruiter Awso Peshdary has become the “don” of his Ottawa jail and was behind the assault of another inmate, according to allegations contained in court records obtained by Global News. The allegations surfaced in court after Peshdary, arrested […]
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(Dhaka Tribune) British citizen Shamima Begum, who left the United Kingdom at the age of 15 to join the Islamic State (IS), will not be allowed to enter Bangladesh, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. At the same time, it reiterated that […]
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(Global News) Canadians detained at a sprawling camp for ISIS families in northern Syria have been photographed and fingerprinted in recent days as part of an operation to register them so they can be sent home. The Syrian Democratic Forces entered the […]
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(Tirana Times) The District Court of Tirana decided the extradition of Takijistani national Komron Zukhurov to Germany on Friday, who is accused of being part of a terrorist cell in the country. Albanian authorities arrested a 24-year-old Tajikistani national in April, after […]
(AP) A court in western Germany has convicted a 39-year-old man of providing support to Islamist groups in Syria. The Duesseldorf regional court on Friday sentenced the German-Tunisian defendant, whose name wasn’t released for privacy reasons, to five years in prison. Judges […]
(NL Times) Amsterdam Pride was one of the targets of a terrorist attack foiled when the authorities arrested six men from Arnhem in September [2018], according to an email read in the trial against the six suspects on Friday, De Gelderlander reports. […]
(AP) A ceremony commemorating the fourth anniversary of a massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida was being held virtually Friday because of the coronavirus, instead of members of the public gathering outside the club to remember the victims as in years […]
(Breitbart) Former Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement Friday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Pulse night club shooting in Orlando, Florida, leaving out the fact that the perpetrator was a radical Islamist loyal to the so-called “Islamic State.” Omar […]
(Global News) An Ontario man accused of leaving Canada with his wife a year ago to join the Islamic State terrorist group was denied bail in a decision handed down by Thursday. Ikar Mao, a 22-year-old from Guelph, Ont., was charged on […]
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(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide woman acquitted of being an Islamic State member has never trained with the terror group, can no longer travel to IS-controlled strongholds in Syria and wants to use her second chance “wisely,” the Federal Court has heard. Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, […]
(Dutch News) The trial of six men said to have been planning a major terrorist attack in the Netherlands began in Rotterdam on Wednesday. The six were arrested after a major police undercover operation in September 2018 but the man police claim […]
(AFP) The Saudi ambassador was summoned to the Danish foreign ministry on Wednesday after terrorism charges were laid against three leaders of an Iranian Arab separatist group based in Denmark. They are suspected of having received funds from Saudi Arabia. Danish police […]
(AFP) Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall. The work was an image of a girl in mourning painted […]
(ABC-Australia) An Adelaide woman who was acquitted of being a member of Islamic State believed she had an “influence” over the timing of a terror attack at a Kenyan police station in 2016, the Federal Court has heard. Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, 25, spent […]
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(BBC) Survivors of the Manchester Arena attack are taking legal action after losing their bid to be represented at the public inquiry into the bombing. More than 40 people who were injured in the 2017 attack are calling for the decision to […]
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