Second terror suspect returned to prison as officers begin working through list of 69 suspects (LINK ONLY)
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(AP) A U.S. citizen on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List has been charged with additional crimes involving ties to Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebel group, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. Jehad Serwan Mostafa, 37, a former San Diego resident, was indicted […]
(JNS) As many as 1,050 Hezbollah members and supporters reside in Germany, and the organization uses the country as a major hub for its activities, German daily Tagesspiegel reported last week, citing security sources. The Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist group’s operations in Europe […]
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(BBC) Boris Johnson has said the “grim reality” is that “some people can’t be rehabilitated” in prison. The PM called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people on London Bridge on Friday. […]
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(Sky News) Jeremy Corbyn has told Sky News that convicted terrorists should “not necessarily” automatically serve their full prison sentences. The Labour leader’s comment comes in the wake of Friday’s London Bridge terror attack, which left two people dead. The attacker, 28-year-old […]
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(BBC) Boris Johnson has told the BBC that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed. The Ministry of Justice launched the urgent review after convicted terrorist Usman Khan, who had served half of his […]
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(Brussels Times) Two Belgian IS women originally from Antwerp were repatriated from Turkey on Friday and placed under detention in Antwerp and Bruges, the spokesperson of the Directorate of Prisons confirmed on Saturday. The two sisters, Fatima and Rahma Benmezian, were sentenced […]
(BBC) Speaking to the BBC in 2008 the man who carried out Friday’s London Bridge attack denied being a terrorist. Usman Khan was speaking after his address was raided by anti-terror police in 2008. He later admitted being involved in a terrorist […]
(Reuters) Islamic State said the London Bridge attack on Friday was carried out by one of its fighters, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday. The group did not provide any evidence. It added that the attack was made in response […]
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(Age) In an unassuming family home in the heart of Werribee, a 16-year-old boy watched the atrocities of Islamic State with his brother for up to three hours each night. Videos of beheadings and bloody executions in the Middle East consumed his […]
(Brussels Times) Turkey has sent the first two Belgian IS women, Fatima (24) and Rahma (31) Benmezian, to Belgium by plane on Friday. When the plane lands at Brussels Airport Zaventem on Friday evening, the two sisters will immediately be arrested and […]
(AFP) French prosecutors called Friday for 20 suspects to go on trial over the massacre of 130 people by suicide bombers and gunmen in Paris four years ago. In a 562-page indictment, the office of the national anti-terror prosecutor (PNAT) charged 14 […]
(BBC) The man who carried out the stab attack at London Bridge on Friday, named by police as Usman Khan, had previously been jailed for terrorism offences. Khan, 28, was wearing a GPS police tag and was out of prison on licence […]
(BBC) Two members of the public have died and another three people were injured in a stabbing attack at London Bridge, the Met Police’s commissioner has said. Cressida Dick told a press conference the stabbing attack, which has been declared a terrorist […]
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(Age) A failed Melbourne terrorist says the death of his terrorist brother in the Bourke Street attack was the “icing on the cake” in realising his plan to kill innocent people at Federation Square was wrong all along. New Year’s Eve terror […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A convert to Islam who said he was “gearing up for martyrdom” weeks after he approached police with a knife and threatened to behead them has told a court he recently requested the Jewish holy book in prison and […]
(Anadolu) German authorities are currently investigating 116 returnees to Germany from areas previously controlled by the Daesh/ISIS terror group, according to local reports. The return of suspected Daesh supporters to Germany has been pre-occupying German security officials for weeks as Turkey recently […]
(Anadolu) As part of Turkey’s policy of repatriating foreign Daesh/ISIS members to their home countries, next month 11 French national members of the terror group will be sent back to France, said Turkish officials on Thursday. “This week we will carry out […]
(NL Times) The parents of a 20-year-old man arrested on Monday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in the Netherlands [are] shocked by the accusations against their son. “We never expected this. If it is true, we strongly reject it. But […]
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(AP) A Brooklyn man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group, in part by encouraging attacks on New York’s subway system. Zachary Clark, 40, was detained after an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court, where […]
(Local) The Danish government has withdrawn the citizenship of a man who is wanted for suspected terrorism, applying a hotly-debated new law. The man’s lawyer, Mette Grith Stage, confirmed to newspaper Berlingske that his citizenship had been revoked. A 25-year-old Danish-Turkish citizen […]
(Reuters) Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of preparing an Islamist militant attack with “bomb vests or one or more car bombs” in the Netherlands. Police conducting a raid on one suspect’s house seized a dagger, […]
(Anadolu) Turkish anti-terror police teams arrested a French woman who was allegedly trying to join [the] Daesh/ISIS terror group in southern Adana province, according to security sources on Tuesday. Anissa L., 21, who reportedly flew from France to Istanbul and then arrived […]
(Times of Northwest Indiana) An Elkhart, Indiana, woman who gained national attention as the widow of an ISIS sniper pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to a reduced terrorism charge. Samantha “Sally” Elhassani, 33, of Elkhart, Indiana, gave up her right to a jury […]
(Miami Herald) A North Miami Beach man who wanted the “establishment of Islamic law” plotted to bomb deans at two of his former colleges, federal authorities said Monday. Salman Rashid, 23, appeared in Miami federal court on Monday charged with soliciting another […]
(Reuters) European police agencies have knocked out several internet servers used by Islamic State in a significant blow to the armed group’s ability to spread propaganda online, the Europol police agency said on Monday. The move shut down a large number of […]
(Swiss Info) A man is in deportation custody following his arrest at the federal asylum centre in Kreuzlingen in northern Switzerland. He was initially suspected of being a member of a terrorist organization. Having consulted with the Office of the Attorney General […]
(Brussels Times) Two Belgian jihadist widows, Tatiana Wielandt (27) and Bouchra Abouallal (26), have been arrested by Turkish police, reports VRT NWS. They fled Syria to go to Turkey with their six children on Wednesday. De Standaard claimed they handed themselves in […]
(Sky News) British Islamic State detainees will be brought back from Syria if they can be prosecuted in the UK and there is no better place to try their case, the national security adviser has said. Sir Mark Sedwill’s comments are the […]
(AFP) Syria’s Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. After years of leading the battle against the Islamic State group in […]
(AFP) A Paris court on Friday sentenced a jailed Islamist radical to 28 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of two prison wardens in September 2016, the first jihadist attack in a French prison. Bilal Taghi was serving a five-year sentence for […]
(Radio France) A 38-year-old French woman, who took four children to Syria to join ISIS, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on terrorism and child abduction charges. The accused is Jihane Makhzoumi. Since Monday, the 38-year-old has been appearing before a […]
(Reuters) The Dutch state is not obliged to actively help repatriate the young children of women who left the Netherlands and joined Islamic State in Syria, an appeals court in The Hague said on Friday, overturning an earlier ruling. A lower court […]
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(Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to shield FBI agents from a lawsuit by three American Muslim men who said they were placed on the government’s “no-fly list” for refusing to […]
(AFP) The celebrated Christmas market in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg opened for another festive season on Friday, with shopkeepers and visitors vowing not to be cowed by an attack last year by a radical Islamist gunman that killed five people. The […]
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