(Charleston Post and Courier) A South Carolina man will serve the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State terror group, a federal judge in Charleston ruled Monday. Prior to the sentence being issued, Zakaryia Abdel […]
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(National-UAE) Iraq and France have been negotiating for months on a deal to commute the death sentences of 11 French citizens and a French resident convicted of joining ISIS in exchange for millions of euros, a security official told the National. “There […]
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(Politico) John Walker Lindh walked out of prison last month and returned to American life, having served 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. But another American who pleaded guilty in a high-profile terrorism case after the Sept. 11 attacks is […]
(AP) A 16-year-old was arrested after Bulgarian police found explosive devices, an Islamic State group flag and other items in the boy’s home that could have been used in a mass attack, a prosecutor said Saturday. Police in Bulgaria’s second-biggest city, Plovdiv, […]
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(AP) A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, and feared being known as the “Looney […]
(AFP) A Tunisian man and his German wife went on trial Friday, charged with planning a foiled biological bomb attack in Germany with the deadly poison ricin. Sief Allah H., 30, and his wife Yasmin, 43, were arrested a year ago by […]
(AFP) Fourteen suspects will go on trial before a special court in Paris in April 2020 charged over attacks around the French capital in January 2015, including the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, legal sources said on Friday. […]
(Chicago Tribune) Over objections by the Chicago Tribune, a federal judge on Thursday ordered her courtroom cleared of spectators and the media for the testimony of an undercover operative in the trial of two north suburban men accused of lending material support […]
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(VOA) Once al-Qaida’s chief American propagandist, Jesse Morton is now propagandizing for peace. In 2009, Morton, then part of a group of Muslim extremists in New York, helped launch Jihad Recollections, the first in a line of online glossy magazines that captured […]
(Global News) The RCMP is looking into whether war crimes laws can be used to prosecute Canadians detained in Syria over their alleged involvement in the so-called Islamic State, Global News has learned. National security investigators are exploring not only whether terrorism […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian terrorist suspect in the Brussels and Paris terror attacks carried out months apart from each other has been extradited to France, Belgian federal prosecutors confirmed Wednesday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, wanted for his suspected involvement in the November […]
(AAP) Roger Singaravelu opened his heart and home to a young woman who had left her native Bangladesh to study in Melbourne. Less than 48 hours later, while napping with his five-year-old daughter, the woman plunged a knife into his neck with […]
(AAP) An “unequivocally committed terrorist” who repeatedly stabbed a Sydney stranger in a “violent, ferocious and inhumane attack” after seeing him wearing an American flag t-shirt has been jailed for at least 27 years. Ihsas Khan had planned to attack Wayne Greenhalgh […]
(AP) Kurdish authorities in northern Syria have transferred eight U.S. women and children who were captured with the Islamic State group back to America, Kurdish officials said Wednesday. Abdulkarim Omar, a senior official in the Kurdish self-rule administration, said the group includes […]
(Jerusalem Post) A new German intelligence report asserts the number of Hezbollah members and supporters has climbed from 950 in 2017 to 1,050 in 2018 amid rising Jew-hatred in the federal republic. The Jerusalem Post reviewed the hair-raising new numbers from the […]
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(AAP) NSW Police has apologised for using headscarves on two officers playing the part of terrorists during a training exercise after it was found it racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs. The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in May said it was unreasonable […]
(AFP) A Iraqi court Monday sentenced to death two more French nationals for joining the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows and potentially opening the door for other cases. Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, […]
(AFP) The execution of nine French jihadists on death row in Iraq would be a disgrace for France and leave an “indelible stain” on the mandate of President Emmanuel Macron, a group of prominent French lawyers said Monday. With controversy growing in […]
(AFP) Nine French jihadists are now on death row in Iraq after a court sentenced two more to death on Sunday for joining the Islamic State group, rejecting a claim of torture. Fodil Tahar Aouidate and Vianney Ouraghi were among 11 French […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death an eighth Frenchman for joining the Islamic State group, rejecting his claims he was tortured into confessing. Fodil Tahar Aouidate, 32, first appeared in court on May 27 but a judge delayed his […]
(Morocco World News) French authorities have stripped a defendant of Moroccan origin convicted for conspiring to join terrorists in Afghanistan, of his French nationality. AFP reported that the dual national was sentenced in 2014 to five years in prison for planning to […]
(BBC) There were “opportunities galore” to identify that the London Bridge extremists were plotting an attack, an inquest has heard. Gareth Patterson, the lawyer representing several victims’ families, said there was evidence the attackers had been in contact since January 2017. Eight […]
(AFP) A man suspected of planting a parcel bomb that wounded 14 people in Lyon, central France, was charged Friday with “attempted terrorist murder,” a prosecutor said. He was also charged … with criminal association and building an explosive for terrorist purposes, […]
(LA Times) A man charged with planning a terrorist attack in Southern California pleaded not guilty Friday morning and is scheduled to return to federal court in Los Angeles on July 23. Mark Steven Domingo, 26, was planning to detonate a bomb at a Long […]
(BBC) The lawyer representing Shamima Begum’s family has written to the home secretary accusing UK authorities of failing to protect the east London girl from being “groomed” by Islamic State. The letter accuses police and her local council of failing to safeguard […]
(National-UAE) A group which organises the annual Al Quds Day march in London should be investigated by Britain’s counter-terror police, according to a recommendation by a leading think tank. A report published on Thursday by the Henry Jackson Society investigating the Islamic […]
(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 roundtable discussion at the American Jewish Committee’s annual global forum in Washington, D.C., which will take place […]
(AFP) An Algerian suspected of setting off a package bomb in southeast France last week has told investigators that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said Thursday. The 24-year-old man, identified as Mohamed Hichem M., was […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Yazidi Women’s Council has filed a lawsuit against Germany’s justice and interior ministers, alleging obstruction of justice, according to German media reports. The interest group accuses the government of failing to prosecute German supporters of the “Islamic State” (IS) militia […]
(ITV) A British jihadist known as “the White Widow” was killed, along with her son, three days after the Manchester attack, ITV News has been told. Former punk rocker and L’Oreal saleswoman Sally Jones from Kent and her 12-year-old son Jojo died […]
(AFP) A Baghdad court sentenced a Frenchman to death on Wednesday for joining the Islamic State group, bringing to seven the number of French jihadists on death row in Iraq. Yassin Sakkam was among 12 French citizens transferred to Iraqi authorities in […]
(FrontPage) Rasha Mubarak leads an extremist life. She organizes anti-Israel rallies, she affiliates with terror-related groups, she posts photos of Hamas celebrations on her social media, and she attacks those who believe Israel has a right to defend herself. Mubarak’s extremist existence, […]
(ITV) A London-born “hostage-keeper” has for the first time admitted the role he played in the so-called Islamic State. Alexanda Kotey, who has been detained by Kurdish forces for the past 16 months, has now given a public confession about his part […]
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(AFP) A Baghdad court sentenced two more Frenchmen to death Tuesday for joining the Islamic State jihadist group, raising the number of French IS members on death row in Iraq to six. Brahim Nejara and Karam El Harchaoui, both in their 30s, […]
(AFP) French police arrested four people Monday over a package bomb explosion in the heart of the southeastern city of Lyon last week which injured 13 people, authorities said. A police raid was under way in a building in the Oullins suburb […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Monday condemned a fourth French citizen to death for joining the Islamic State group, a day after handing capital punishments to three other Frenchmen. Mustapha Merzoughi, 37, was sentenced to death by hanging, according to an AFP […]
(Local) A Swedish woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iraqi court on Sunday for her involvement with the terror group Isis. The woman has been imprisoned in Iraq since autumn when she was convicted of entering the country […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said. Captured in Syria by a US-backed force fighting the jihadists, they are the first French […]
(AFP) French police were on Saturday pulling out all the stops to locate a suspect following a blast in the heart of Lyon that wounded 13 people. “All means have been activated to identify and detain the person who committed this act,” […]
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