(AP) Eight people will face pre-trial custody hearings later Thursday, after “some 20 people” suspected of involvement in plotting Islamist extremist violence were arrested in a series of raids across Denmark. They are six men and two women, according to Danish media. […]
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(Yle) The Foreign Ministry took the lead in planning an operation to repatriate Finnish nationals who wanted to return to Finland from the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria, according to official documents seen by Yle. The material indicated that the draft plan […]
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(BBC) A man has been arrested in the West Midlands on suspicion of terrorism offences. The 49-year-old was detained at an address in Solihull on suspicion of funding/supporting terrorism. West Midlands Police said the arrest was pre-planned and intelligence-led and there was […]
(WGBH) On Thursday, lawyers representing convicted 26-year-old Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will go before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals to argue that their client did not receive a fair trial in 2015. They will also ask that […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Council Chamber on Wednesday extended the preventive detention of Osama Krayem (also spelled Ossama Krayem), Monir Ahmed Alaaj aka Sofien Ayari, and Mohamed Abrini by two months, under the investigation into the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, […]
(Dallas Morning News) Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim lived a comfortable life in North Texas, where he operated his own convenience store. But he wanted more, prosecutors say: war, murder and jihad. As a result, the 43-year-old Richardson man will spend the next […]
(National-UAE) A major European counterterrorism politician has warned that France’s monitoring of extremists is still failing a year after a terror attack in Strasbourg. ISIS extremist Cherif Chekatt killed five people and wounded 11 others during a shooting and stabbing spree at […]
(Reuters) Danish police arrested about 20 people on Wednesday after carrying out raids throughout the country to thwart what they suspected were preparations for an Islamist militant attack, police and security officials said. The detainees had tried to obtain explosives and firearms, […]
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(Anadolu) Turkey has deported two German citizens over links to the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, Turkish officials announced on Wednesday. An Interior Ministry statement said the extradition process continues for other foreign terrorist fighters in Turkey. The issue of the handling of Daesh/ISIS […]
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(BBC) A man has been arrested in Bristol on suspicion of Islamist-related terrorism offences, police have said. The 33-year-old was detained at 23:00 GMT on Monday as part of a planned operation at a flat in Tyndale Court, Imperial Road, in Clifton. […]
(National-UAE) A leading Islamic school in Sweden accused of appointing teachers who had recently returned from fighting for ISIS abroad has been shut down amid fears students were at risk of being radicalised. Abdel Nasser El Nadi, former principal of Vetenskapsskolan school […]
(AFP) A Bulgarian imam was jailed for eight and a half years on Tuesday for spreading the ideas of the Islamic State group and propagating hatred and war on religious grounds. The regional court in the southern city of Pazardzhik also handed […]
(Reuters) The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a base in Florida. […]
(Dutch News) The national terror threat level has been reduced for the first time in six years in response to the falling number of attacks in Europe. The national counter-terrorism co-ordinator (NCTV) brought the official assessment down from level four (“substantial”) to […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium is reshuffling and expanding its terrorism database in order to better equip law enforcement authorities to monitor and share information about “potentially dangerous people,” particularly behind bars. Justice Minister Koen Geens announced in a press release that the common […]
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(Anadolu) Turkey deported 11 French citizens over links to the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday. The ministry statement said that 71 foreign Daesh/ISIS members were sent to their home countries from Nov. 11 to Dec. 9. They include […]
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(AP) The Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim, a U.S. official said Sunday as the FBI […]
(CBS) National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said that Friday’s shooting at a naval base in Florida “appears to be a terrorist attack.” The gunman was a member of the Saudi Air Force and an aviation student at the base. “To me, it […]
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(BBC) A man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences relating to Syria, said police. The pair were arrested in Dover on Saturday as part of an “intelligence-led” operation and there was no risk to the public, West Midlands […]
(Breitbart) French former anti-terrorist judge Marc Trévidic has warned that there is a substantial danger posed to the public by terrorism convicts set for release in the next two years. Mr Trévidic said that starting in 2020 and 2021, prisoners convicted for joining the […]
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(AP) The Saudi student who fatally shot three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told the Associated Press on […]
(NY Post) A wannabe ISIS decapitator who called himself “The Dentist” while stockpiling tactical knives and a pocket chainsaw in his Bronx pad landed 22 years behind bars Friday. “You are a ticking time bomb,” Manhattan federal Judge Paul Engelmayer told Sajmir […]
(NY Times) A member of the Saudi Air Force armed with a handgun fatally shot three people and injured eight others on Friday morning during a bloody rampage in a classroom building at the prestigious Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., where […]
(AFP) A Saudi military student reportedly condemned America as a “nation of evil” in an online manifesto prior to opening fire Friday at a US naval base, killing three people before being shot dead by police. The shooting, which took place in […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany has deported 90 “Gefährder” and other “relevant persons” since the 2016 attack on a Berlin Christmas market, according to German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, which cited a government response to a parliamentary inquiry on Friday. In Germany a “Gefährder” (lit. “endangerer”) […]
(AP) U.S. law enforcement officials were digging into the background of the suspected Florida naval station shooter Friday, to determine the Saudi Air Force officer’s motive and whether it was connected to terrorism. As questions swirled about the shooting, which left four […]
(AP) An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, killing three people in an attack the Saudi government quickly condemned and that U.S. officials were investigating for possible links to […]
(CBC) A Canadian man detained in Turkey this past summer and accused of having ISIS propaganda on his phone was charged by RCMP Friday with terror-related offences. Ikar Mao, 22, of Guelph, Ont., faces one count of participation in activity of a terrorist […]
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(CBC) Turkish authorities alleged a Canadian man had ISIS propaganda on his phone when he and his wife were arrested near the Syrian border this summer, CBC News has learned. The newlywed couple were held for three months before being released and returning […]
(Global News) A Lebanese mechanic who fixed vehicles for ISIS before arriving in Canada and making a refugee claim is complicit in the terror group’s crimes against humanity, the Federal Court has ruled. In its decision, the court found that Boutros Massroua, […]
(Breitbart) Denmark has announced that another Islamic State member will have their passport and citizenship revoked in what has become the third case in just over a week. The first case involved a 25-year-old Kurdish man who had joined Islamic State as […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian court has given the government 75 days to begin organising the repatriation of a Belgian woman affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and her child from the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. Belgium is expected to appeal the […]
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(Hill) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) knocked French President Emmanuel Macron for “cavalier” comments about ISIS fighters who traveled from Europe to join the terrorist group. “Very disturbed by the cavalier remarks made by President Macron about how the number of European ISIS […]
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