(ITV) An east London man — who is suspected of involvement in the kidnap of a British journalist in Syria — has been transferred to Iraq by American forces where he could face trial and the death penalty. Nero Saraiva, a Portuguese […]
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(Brussels Times) Pressure from terrorists and radicals in Belgian prisons is gradually decreasing, according to a report on the fight against radicalisation in Belgian prisons written by Egmont Institute researcher Thomas Renard. At the end of May, there were 165 inmates linked […]
(Novinite) A Bulgarian national of Syrian descent as well as 15 of his associates were arrested on July 1 for suspected terrorism. The operation took place in Bulgaria’s coastal city of Bourgas and was conducted jointly by the State Agency for National […]
(BBC) The man accused of stabbing three men to death in a park in a suspected terror attack has appeared at the Old Bailey. Khairi Saadallah, 25, appeared by video link from Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, flanked by two guards. He […]
(Brussels Times) Three wives of IS fighters and six of their children are on their way to Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office confirmed on Wednesday. Tatiana Wielandt, Bouchra Abouallal and Nadia Baghouri are being repatriated with six of their children, according to […]
(Democrat and Chronicle) A federal judge has ruled that a man once convicted of terrorism-related crimes must be released, and the government’s case to jail him indefinitely has been constructed on slipshod evidence and informants’ lies. On Monday, Rochester-based U.S. District Judge […]
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(CBC) The Canadian government is flouting its international human rights obligations by failing to repatriate and provide adequate consular assistance to 47 citizens who are currently detained in northeast Syria because of alleged ties to the Islamic State, a new report from […]
(National-UAE) British police are investigating whether the founder of a human rights group broke terrorism laws by praising Iranian general Qassem Suleimani after his death in a US drone strike. The National reported last week that charity regulators censured an Islamic centre […]
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(BBC) A man has been charged with the murder of three men who were stabbed to death in a public park in Reading. Khairi Saadallah is accused of killing James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, on 20 June. […]
(BBC) An Islamic State terror group supporter who planned to “blow up St Paul’s Cathedral” was getting “cold feet” about the attack, a court has heard. Muslim convert Safiyya Shaikh, 37, went on a reconnaissance trip to scope out the London landmark […]
(AFP) The wife of an Islamist convicted of planning a biological bomb attack in Germany with the deadly poison ricin was jailed for eight years on Friday for helping him to plan the atrocity. A court in Duesseldorf found the 44-year-old German […]
(Hill) Bipartisan lawmakers in the House and Senate on Friday issued a call for the European Union to designate all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization and ban its activities on the continent. In a letter led by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Criminal Court has reduced a sentence for a man who spread propaganda from the banned Islamic State (IS) group from a suspended prison sentence to a CHF2,500 ($2,635) fine. The 35-year-old had originally been handed a 180-day suspended […]
(Brussels Times) An Antwerp court has stripped an Islamic State supporter of her Belgian nationality and sentenced her to five years in prison. The 32-year-old woman, identified as Rahma B., was also fined €8,000 as part of her conviction for participating in […]
(NL Times) The Dutch state does not have to repatriate women and children currently trapped in camps in Syria or Iraq, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a cassation case filed by 23 Dutch women who went to areas controlled by […]
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(Jewish Journal) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) retweeted a Rutgers University assistant professor who alleged that Israeli Border Police unjustifiably killed a Palestinian driver in what appeared to be a car-ramming attack. On June 23, a car rammed into a tower at the […]
(Radio France) French jihadist Tyler Vilus appeared before the Paris criminal court on [Thursday] for the start of a week-long trial into his role within the Islamic State armed group where he is accused of serving as an “emir.” He faces life […]
(National-UAE) France did not break the law when it stripped five dual nationals of their French nationality over their ties to an Al Qaeda-affiliated group linked to attacks that have killed hundreds, a top European court has ruled. The European Court of […]
(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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