(Brussels Times) Since the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, many garbage containers with compartments for sorting have been replaced by single bags for residual waste at STIB stations. “Just now that sorting is so high on the agenda, STIB does not […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders touted the endorsement of Ako Abdul-Samad, who once defended an al Qaeda propagandist and runs a Muslim-American organization so controversial that other Democrats have returned its donations. “I’m honored to have Rep. Abdul-Samad’s endorsement,” Sen. […]
(Brussels Times) The number of Islamist attacks in Europe slightly decreased in 2019, according to a report delivered by the French terrorism assessment centre (CAT) highlighting the problems Islamic State (IS) has experienced since losing its self-proclaimed caliphate. “In 2019, the threat […]
(Reuters) Police shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he attacked officers inside a police barracks in eastern France on Monday. Shortly before the knifeman struck the police facility in Dieuze, near Metz, the local police operations center received […]
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(Brussels Times) Thirteen men have been named as the main suspects of the 2016 Brussels attacks, eight of whom will appear before Belgium’s highest criminal court. Federal prosecutors want to bring eight men before the Brussels court of assizes, all identified as […]
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(Reuters) Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack in south London, without giving evidence, the group’s Amaq news agency said on Monday. “The perpetrator of the attack in Streatham district in south London yesterday is a fighter of Islamic State, […]
(Reuters) The man shot dead by police after wounding two people in a stabbing spree on a busy London street had been jailed for promoting violent Islamist material and had encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents. He had also once written […]
(AP) Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen claimed responsibility Sunday for last year’s deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia. The shooter, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was a member of the Saudi Air Force in […]
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(Breitbart) A radical Islamic extremist who plotted to massacre the staff of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2010 has been released by Swedish authorities, despite plotting more attacks while in prison. The man, who has not been identified by name, is said to […]
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(Arizona Republic) An Iraqi man who is alleged to have been the leader of a group of al-Qaida terrorists has been arrested in Phoenix, according to federal officials. Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, a 42-year-old Phoenix resident, is wanted to stand trial in […]
(AFP) A senior member of Syrian Islamist armed group Jaysh al-Islam implicated in the disappearance of a prominent activist in 2013 has been arrested in France and charged with war crimes and torture, a judicial source told AFP on Friday. The suspect, […]
(Canadian Press) The wife of a notorious Palestinian terrorist who attacked an Israeli airliner has lost out on her bid to collect on her late husband’s life insurance because he failed to mention his unsavoury past when he took out the policy […]
(Brussels Times) The state of Belgium has decided to file an appeal against a ruling by a Brussels court on 11 December ordering it to provide 10 children of IS members in Syria with consular assistance and administrative, travel and identity documents […]
(Brussels Times) A woman from Antwerp affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) in Syria risks a five-year prison sentence and being stripped of her Belgian nationality. The woman, identified as Saïda El Mimouni, was married to a member of the now-disbanded terrorist […]
(Chicago Tribune) Since 2016, documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui has been waiting for answers from the FBI to one question: Which parts of her Arab American community in Bridgeview were surveilled after 9/11? After a court hearing last week, she learned she will […]
(Global News) Foreign fighters from countries including Canada were captured during an operation against ISIS in Afghanistan last November, according to a report to the United Nations Security Council. The report said the Afghan security forces and Taliban had dealt a severe […]
(Free Beacon) A Muslim community leader accused of having financial ties to Hamas donated to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D., Mich.) campaign last month, records show. Salah Sarsour, an alleged Hamas sympathizer who once boasted about meeting a Muslim Brotherhood leader known for […]
(Brussels Times) The Belgian state will already have to pay €100,000 to ten children of IS terrorists, as they did not provide them with assistance to get back to Belgium. The government has received its first bill, via a bailiff, on Tuesday. […]
(Breitbart) A group of French jihadists have decried their treatment in an Iraqi prison, claiming that they have been subjected to “torture” and “humiliation” before their planned executions. Two French nationals, Brahim Nejara and Fodil Tahar Aouidate, currently awaiting execution for joining […]
(Radio France) A French national who was convicted for his crucial role in recruiting youths in France to fight as jihadists in Syria was handed down a 22-year prison sentence in a Paris court on Friday evening. Prosecutors named Mourad Farès, 35, […]
(Fox) An Iranian student who was denied entry to the United States on arrival and deported this week, amid objections from top Democrats and left-wing activists, has family ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah, a Department […]
(RTL) RAID and police units have been deployed in Épinal since Thursday morning, due to the suspected presence of explosive devices. A large-scale operation was carried out on rue Victor Hugo in Épinal this Thursday morning. Territorial intelligence had raised the alarm as to […]
(Radio France) Since the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq in October 2019, the threat of mass terror attacks has waned. But a new book shows home-grown French jihadists still pose a threat as they seek to reconfigure themselves […]
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) To protect against government secrets being exposed during the trial of a Helena-West Helena man accused of supporting a terrorist organization in Yemen, a federal judge agreed Thursday to the Justice Department’s request for a designated classified information security officer. […]
(AP) An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to an additional life term for a shootout with police in New Jersey as he attempted to avoid arrest in 2016. State […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Berlin court on Friday sentenced a 32-year-old Islamist to five years and four months in prison for planning a serious terror attack involving explosives. The man, identified only as Magomed-Ali C. under German privacy laws, is thought to have […]
(NL Times) The VVD and CDA want to amend the Passport Act to make sure that people whose Dutch nationality was stripped because they joined a terrorist organization can not get a new passport from the Dutch government. “This is another step […]
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(Hill) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and fellow committee members Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) asked acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for further details on the process by which a Saudi national […]
(Middle East Eye) The British government said it will continue its review of the controversial Prevent strategy amid concerns by rights groups that the Conservative Party was planning to scrap its report into the counter-terrorism scheme. Prevent is a strand of the […]
(Brussels Times) The Belgian state has seven more days to provide consular assistance to ten children of Begian IS terrorists to help them return to Belgium, before it will have to pay a €50,000 penalty per day it does not. Belgium has […]
(Reuters) With an FBI investigation underway, Navy security officer David Link still is not allowed to talk about what he saw when a Saudi gunman killed three U.S. sailors at this sprawling Florida naval base last month. But Link, one of the […]
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(AP) The Pentagon has given the Navy and other military services conditional approval to resume training of Saudi Arabian nationals in the U.S. Operational training, such as flying and other non-classroom work, for the approximately 850 Saudis at multiple U.S. bases was […]
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(AFP) In an overcrowded desert camp for families linked to the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, a French woman begged for another chance so she and her children could go home. In the same settlement, two other French women were more […]
(Brussels Times) A jihadist fighter from Brussels has been sentenced to five years in prison in absentia after sending threatening messages about “shredded bodies” to a former education minister. Brussels’ correctional court handed the maximum sentence to Soufian Defauwe and also ordered […]
(BBC) Terror offenders will face more time in jail and be monitored more closely as part of new laws being introduced within weeks, the government has said. Automatic early release from prison will be scrapped for terror offenders while a minimum jail […]
(AP) A psychologist who examined a man accused of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State group at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., found “ample evidence” that he is mentally unfit to assist in his defense, a court […]
(Brussels Times) On Monday afternoon, four more children of Belgian IS women will arrive at Brussels Airport Zaventem. The children are two 7-year-old boys and two 5-year-old boys, who are the eldest children of Tatiana Wielandt (27) and her sister-in-law Bouchra Abouallal […]
(AFP) Security forces on Monday arrested seven men believed to be planning a terror attack in France and preparing to travel to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria, sources close to the case told AFP. [They] were detained by France’s DGSI domestic […]
(Radio France) The trial opened in Paris on Monday of Mourad Farès, who is accused of running a group of jihadists as well as recruiting people to fight in Syria and financing terrorism. It’s thought the 35-year-old from Thonon-les-bains in eastern France […]
(AFP) Norway’s populist Progress Party said Monday it was leaving the right-wing coalition government over the repatriation of a suspected Islamic State member and her two children last week. “We don’t compromise with people who have voluntarily joined terror organisations. That was […]
(Newsweek) The United States has received intelligence regarding a potentially imminent attack being planned against its military personnel stationed in Germany, according to an official memo seen by Newsweek. The U.S.’s 66th Military Intelligence Brigade received what was described as “third party […]
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