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(NY Post) The Kazakhstan-born Brooklyn man who the feds say betrayed America — by becoming a top ISIS sniper in Syria — had come to the US through the diversity lottery, the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed in an […]
(National Post) A federal labour board has upheld the 2015 firing of a Canada Revenue Agency employee who worked next to the Calgary airport and wrote frequent Twitter and Facebook posts that “appeared to glorify the Boston Marathon terror bombing, celebrate the […]
(National-UAE) While much has been made of the apparent security threat emanating from beyond America’s southern border by the White House and elsewhere, recent events show that it may actually be Canada that presents a greater terror concern to US soil. During […]
(NY Post) A Kazakhstan-born Brooklyn man who the feds say moved to Syria six years ago to join ISIS — rising to become one of the terror group’s top snipers — was ordered held without bail Friday as it emerged that a […]
(AFP) Tania Joya has devoted her life to “reprogramming” extremists and reintroducing them into society — a process she understands well as a “former Islamic jihadist” herself. “My aim is for them to feel a sense of remorse and to train them […]
(Breitbart) A female asylum seeker is on trial in Germany after being accused of actively recruiting new members for Islamic State. The 37-year-old woman has been accused by a Dresden court of campaigning for the terrorist group in order to secure new […]
(AP) A U.S. citizen from Kazakhstan facing terrorism charges after he became a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group once boasted that he supports “the worst terrorist organization in the world,” authorities said as they announced his arrest Friday. […]
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) A federal grand jury indicted a 21-year-old Syrian refugee on charges he concocted plans to blow up a Pittsburgh church in the name of the terrorist organization ISIS, according to court records unsealed Thursday. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, who lived with […]
(Breitbart) Stockholm terror attacker Rakhmat Akilov has complained about his treatment in prison, claiming the food is substandard and that he feels lonely. The Uzbek migrant wrote complaints to the justice ombudsman (JO) stating that no-one among the prison staff can have any […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police in Germany’s western state of North Rhine-Westphalia carried out raids against suspected Islamist extremists on Thursday. Officers were searching for “concrete indications” of a planned attack, authorities said. Sniffer dogs were present as the police searched for explosives, but […]
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(RTÉ) The Irish woman who travelled to Islamic State-controlled territory and who is now being detained in a Syrian camp has said she does not think she will ever be coming back to Ireland. In an interview with journalist Norma Costello for […]
(CNN) The US has transported an American citizen who is alleged to have been an ISIS fighter back to American soil from Syria in order to face trial for his alleged involvement with the terror group, according to two US officials familiar […]
(RTÉ) “It wasn’t worth it. We failed,” says Lisa Smith of her decision to leave Ireland and join the caliphate in Syria around three years ago. “What we believed; we actually thought it was going to be an Islamic State … and we would […]
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(AFP) Norway on Wednesday provisionally jailed controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar, following a conviction in Italy for “terrorist conspiracy,” his lawyer told AFP. Norwegian intelligence (PST) had arrested Krekar, 63, on Monday in Oslo under an international search warrant as […]
(Morocco World News) A Spanish judge at the National Court sentenced, on Monday, July 15, Moroccan national Allal El Mourabit to prison for allegedly “glorifying terrorism.” The judge sentenced the Moroccan national after considering evidence concerning charges of promoting terrorism. The arrest […]
(AP) Democratic Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has submitted legislation that would force President Donald Trump’s administration to disclose details about how it shares the FBI’s watchlist of more than 1 million known or suspected terrorists with foreign countries. The legislation from Omar […]
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(IPT) A pending New Jersey bill banning anti-Israel rhetoric and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activities on college campuses and in public schools in the state unfairly links such activities with anti-Semitism, officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) say. CAIR’s partners […]
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(Jerusalem Post) Muslim organizations across the US reacted Monday night to US President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about a group of four progressive congresswomen. “President Trump’s remarks today are a dangerous new low that will lead to more death threats on Congresswoman […]
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(AFP) Norway has arrested controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar after he was convicted in Italy of “terrorist” conspiracy, the PST intelligence service said Tuesday. A refugee in Norway since 1991, 63-year-old Krekar — whose real name is Najumuddin Ahmad Faraj […]
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(JNS) An imam of an organization affiliated with an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case is scheduled to be part of a panel on Wednesday at the U.S. State Department’s second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, […]
(PolitiFact) President Donald Trump drew wide criticism July 14 for a tweet that told “‘progressive’ Democrat congresswomen” to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Some commentators said Trump’s tweet was racist. It […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario’s top court has upheld a decision allowing a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre to eventually take college classes on his own. The appeal court says the Ontario Review Board […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar said she would not dignify with a response President Trump’s assertion that she is pro-al Qaeda. “I will not dignify it with an answer because I know that every single Islamophobe, every single person who is hateful, […]
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(AFP) Suspects charged in connection with the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings will be tried next year in the former NATO headquarters in the city, Justice Minister Koen Geens said Friday. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed 32 […]
(IPT) A Gaza-based charity that ostensibly receives humanitarian funds from U.S. and Western Islamist benefactors has close ties to a designated terrorist group, a new report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) finds. Board members for the Generosity […]
(BBC) A man has been found guilty of trying to make a bomb to be used in a driverless car. Farhad Salah was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of preparing to commit acts of terrorism. He “posed a very real risk to […]
(Reuters) A Berlin court has ruled that Germany’s foreign ministry should repatriate from Syria the German wife and three children of a suspected Islamic State fighter, in what a court spokesman said was the first such ruling against the government. The man’s […]
(Fox) Some 30 mosques and cultural centers in Germany have ties to the U.S.-classified terrorist organization Hezbollah, according to a Hamburg intelligence agency report. The U.S. government and a bipartisan group of American lawmakers have urged Berlin to outlaw the Lebanese terrorist […]
(National-UAE) Few people have defined America’s post-9/11 homegrown terrorist threat like John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.” On May 23, having served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for aiding a terrorist organisation, Walker Lindh walked free from a high-security prison […]
(Indianapolis Star) Two brothers from Fishers accused of trying to sell manufactured firearms and ship the weapons overseas to the Islamic State group are facing federal charges, authorities said. A federal grand jury indicted Moyad Dannon, 21, and Mahde Dannon, 20, with […]
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(Reuters) A 65-year-old Moroccan citizen was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after being convicted by a Portuguese court of recruiting young people to fight in Syria. Abdesselam Tazi was also found guilty by the court in Lisbon of financing […]
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(Houston Chronicle) A Houston native described by his lawyer as a youth engaging in “dangerous fantasy” pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to providing aid to ISIS by offering to be a martyr and spreading bomb-making knowledge. Kaan Serclan Damlarkaya, 20, has […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) Like many a 20-year-old, Greenacre youth Isaak el Matari harboured big ambitions. But if allegations made against him in court this week prove correct, his dreams were far from the run-of-the-mill variety shared by most young men his age. […]
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(Deutsche Welle) A 32-year-old German woman on Friday was sentenced to five years in prison for being a member of the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist organization. Sabine S. converted to Islam and moved to Syria and Iraq from the end of 2013 […]
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