(AP) An Iraqi citizen suspected of being a “high-ranking” member of the Islamic State group has been indicted for allegedly violating a Swiss ban on extremist groups and accused of plotting attacks in Switzerland and Lebanon, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The Swiss […]
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(Jerusalem Post) The German government has issued a four-year travel ban against a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who allegedly supports terrorism and [the] Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state. The […]
(BBC) The sentencing of Hashem Abedi, who was found guilty of murdering the 22 people who died in the Manchester Arena bombing, has been postponed. The brother of bomber Salman Abedi had been due to be sentenced on 23 and 24 April […]
(Reuters) A man who killed two people in a knife attack in southeastern France at the weekend is a refugee from Sudan and has been charged with terrorism offences and murder, the French anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. Five people were […]
(East Bay Times) Three years after a high school student was accused of showing a video some claimed was racist and insensitive when he ran for student body president, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District has settled a $665,000 lawsuit and […]
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(AFP) French police have arrested three Sudanese nationals in a terror probe after a stabbing spree in the southeast left two people dead, investigators said on Sunday. The attack by a lone perpetrator took place in broad daylight Saturday, with the country […]
(AFP) A Sudanese refugee went on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France on Saturday, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack. The attack in broad daylight, which President Emmanuel Macron called “an odious act,” […]
(AAP) A terrorist will remain in jail for at least 20 years for plotting a Christmas Day attack in Melbourne’s CBD, with appeal judges ruling he got off lightly. Ibrahim Abbas is serving a maximum 24-year jail term after admitting to conspiring […]
(Global News) An Edmonton woman has been identified by intelligence officials as an alleged ISIS supporter and Al Shabaab member and who recruited a young Canadian to travel to Syria, Global News has learned. Top secret documents publicly disclosed in court, and […]
(News Now Finland) The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service Supo published its new year book on Thursday, painting a picture of the threats facing Finland from domestic extremist movements, cyber espionage and terror attacks. Supo says the threat of terrorism in Finland […]
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) A Forsyth County man accused of plotting to attack the White House pleaded guilty, the Atlanta U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Hasher Jallal Taheb, 23, was arrested in January 2019 in Gwinnett County, where he was unwittingly the target of […]
(IANS) Two Islamic charities, linked to the banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami, ran a persistent disinformation campaign against India leading to hearings and resolutions on Kashmir in the US Congress last year. As per an IANS investigation, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) […]
(FrontPage) The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is raising money, through its division ICNA Relief, in the name of “coronavirus relief.” The group claims that the funds will be used to assist low-income families, seniors, refugees and others. However, in the […]
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(BBC) A man accused of having a video on how to build a suicide vest and publishing a tape of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has appeared in court. Liam Fenn, 21, of Harrow Place, Wigan, has been charged with […]
(Clarion) Islamist activist, sharia apologist and co-founder of the Women’s March Linda Sarsour is holding a coronavirus fundraiser to benefit the people of Gaza through Baitulmaal USA, an organization with ties to the Islamist terror group Hamas. Baitulmaal is listed as a […]
(AFP) Norway announced Thursday that it had extradited a fundamentalist Islamic preacher to Italy, despite the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, where he has been sentenced to jail for leading a jihadist network. “Krekar is no longer in Norway. Krekar has today been extradited […]
(AFP) A German court sentenced a 31-year-old Tunisian to 10 years in prison Thursday for planning a biological bomb attack with the deadly poison ricin. Islamic State sympathiser Sief Allah H., 31, had ordered castor seeds, explosives and metal ball bearings on […]
(AFP) The trial of 14 people accused of helping the jihadist gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and other Paris targets in January 2015 has been postponed because of France’s coronavirus lockdown, prosecutors said Wednesday. The presiding judge for the trial, […]
(USA Today) Federal prison officials failed to monitor communications involving at least 28 prisoners linked to domestic and international terrorism, an internal Justice Department investigation concluded. The Federal Bureau of Prisons requires the communications of all high-risk inmates be tracked, but the […]
(BBC) The UK acted unlawfully by passing evidence to the US that could lead to the execution of two British members of an Islamic State murder squad. The Supreme Court said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid should not have passed information on […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia’s eSafety commissioner will be able to order internet providers to block websites hosting terrorist content under comprehensive rules developed in the wake of the livestreamed Christchurch attack last year. The new protocol will be invoked during crises where […]
(Swiss Info) Nora Illi, a controversial public figure who co-founded the Swiss Central Islamic Council (SCIS), died on Monday at the age of 35, after a long illness. Perhaps Switzerland’s most widely publicised convert to Islam, Illi often attracted attention for her […]
(ABC) A Department of Homeland Security memo sent to law enforcement officials around the country warns that violent extremists could seek to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by carrying out attacks against the U.S. “Violent extremists probably are seeking to exploit […]
(Brussels Times) Close to 1,600 victims of terror attacks have applied to the Financial Assistance Commission for compensation, according to the Justice Department. By the end of December 2019, 1,000 people had requested such assistance from the state but the number shot […]
(Brussels Times) Two widows of IS jihadists were acquitted of terrorism charges by a Turkish court on the 11th of March. Tatiana Wielandt (27) and Bouchra Abouallal (26) were immediately released, along with their children aged two and five. They are currently […]
(Brussels Times) Today is the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro station, and a subdued commemoration will take place amid scenes of another national crisis. Four years ago this morning, terrorists exploded two suitcase bombs in […]
(NL Times) The court in Utrecht found Gokmen T. guilty of opening fire on a tram in Utrecht last March, killing four people. He was sentenced to life in prison on Friday. The sentence is equal to what the public prosecutor demanded. […]
(BBC) A man has admitted plotting terrorism offences, including a plan to attack people with a meat cleaver in Germany. Fatah Mohammed Abdullah, of Newcastle, bought over 8,000 matches, fireworks and a remote control detonator with the intention of assisting two others […]
(National-UAE) Google has rejected dozens of requests from convicted terrorists and their families to delete news reports on atrocities that killed hundreds of people. Terrorists across Europe have asked the media giant to act under the EU’s “right to be forgotten” scheme […]
(Anadolu) Turkey deported another foreign terrorist fighter to his home country of Norway, [the] Turkish Interior Ministry said Thursday. The agency said Turkey continues to deport foreign terrorists to their home countries. The issue of the handling of Daesh/ISIS terrorists and their […]
(National-UAE) Britain has prosecuted just ten per cent of foreign terrorist fighters who have returned from Iraq and Syria, highlighting the difficulty of securing battlefield evidence of crimes, a UK terrorism watchdog said. The UK government estimates that a fifth of the […]
(AP) A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator was arrested Thursday in Minnesota on a terrorism charge, after prosecutors say he told paid FBI informants that he had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and wanted to carry […]
(BBC) When Hashem Abedi was found guilty of planning the Manchester Arena bombing with his brother Salman, he became the latest home-grown terrorist to be convicted in a UK court. But he was also the product of a small area dubbed a […]
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(AFP) French judges have ordered 20 people to stand trial over the coordinated attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015, including Salah Abdeslam, the only suspected assailant still alive, prosecutors said Monday. The move comes after investigators wrapped up […]
(AFP) A German-Tunisian woman who married a German rapper turned Islamic State fighter and who kept a child slave in Syria has been charged with crimes against humanity, federal prosecutors said Monday. The woman, named as Omaima A, is widely known for […]
(Global News) Every morning, Hang-Kam Annie Chiu left her basement suite in Scarborough and walked to the local Tim Hortons, where she ordered a large coffee with two creams. She would sit by the window with a group of seniors who met […]
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(Jerusalem Post) Prosecutors in the Austrian state of Carinthia have started a trial against an alleged Hezbollah commander who spent 13 years in the central European country while reportedly being involved in financing terrorism. The trial has triggered outrage, according to the […]
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(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of two Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) leaders accused of terrorist propaganda. Islamic council president Nicolas Blancho and its spokesman [Qaasim] Illi were accused of broadcasting propaganda videos in support of the […]
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