(ITV) The brother of a man accused of plotting to kill Jewish people at a mass gathering in Manchester has told a jury that he thought he was being “abducted or kidnapped” when police came to arrest him. Bilel Saadaoui claimed six […]
(CBC) A Calgary man who travelled to Syria with his cousin more than 12 years ago has been found guilty of terrorism offences after a judge ruled that the evidence shows he was fighting for ISIS. Jamal Taan Borhot, 35, was convicted […]
(AFP) Two minors, including a Russian national, have been placed in custody in Paris on suspicion of plotting an antisemitic attack, according to judicial and press sources. The Russian, a Chechen 16-year-old who came to France with his mother four years ago, […]
(BBC) A Green Party councillor and chair of one of the region’s biggest mosques faces a possible three-year charity suspension imposed by the Charity Commission after sharing a social media post about the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel. Abdul Malik was […]
(Dutch News) An Amersfoort man who stabbed another man to death on the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam last September and seriously injured a second should be jailed for 20 years, followed by psychiatric prison, the public prosecution department said at his trial […]
(NL Times) The trial against Ayoub M. from Amersfoort, the man suspected of a fatal knife attack at [Erasmus] Bridge in Rotterdam in September last year, starts in the high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport on Monday. The now 23-year-old man is facing […]
(BBC) Police have been given more time to question a 31-year-old man arrested in connection with the attack on a synagogue in Manchester earlier this year. He was arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism after arriving […]
(Deutsche Welle) In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the “Islamic State” (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as […]
(ITV) A woman in Jersey is facing terrorism charges, accused of using social media to invite support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Both groups are proscribed terrorist organisations, which means it is an offence to promote them. The case against Natalie Strecker, 50, […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court said Friday it had ordered psychiatric internment for a Moroccan man who murdered a church official in a 2023 machete attack that horrified the country. Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court dismissed terrorism charges for the attacks at two […]
(NL Times) Authorities failed to fully monitor Ayoub M., the suspect in the fatal stabbing at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge, in the months leading up to the attack, according to a joint report from the Dutch Inspectorate of Justice and Security and the […]
(Iran International) Canada told Iran International on Thursday it does not automatically reject Iranian men’s permanent residency applications solely for compulsory IRGC service, after a conscript said he was ruled inadmissible for his involuntary service. In a written response via email, Immigration, […]
(BBC) A man has been arrested at Manchester Airport on suspicion of terror offences over the synagogue attack in the city earlier this year, police have said. Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz died at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on 2 October […]
(Juno News) Canada is dangerously unprepared for the growing threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a national security analyst. The expert is demanding Ottawa launch its own probe into groups tied to the Islamist ideology, warning that the danger to […]
(European Conservative) France’s domestic intelligence service has warned of a growing threat to Christian communities, according to a confidential report obtained by Le Figaro that links recent attacks in Europe to decades of jihadist propaganda. The warning comes in the wake of […]
(Jewish News) A British-Palestinian doctor who has become infamous for her rants about “Jewish supremacy” in the UK has had her licence to practice medicine suspended for 15 months while the General Medical Council (GMC) investigates her conduct. The decision, announced by […]
(Juno News) A propaganda account promoting the Iranian regime and terrorism has been exposed as likely operating right here in Canada, thanks to a new location feature on the X platform. Former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Goldie Ghamari, a refugee from Iran, […]
(ANSA) Turin imam and Egyptian citizen Mohamed Shahin has been served an expulsion order from Italy to Egypt because he is an alleged anti-Semitic fundamentalist who has allegedly legitimised the extermination of the Israeli people, according to the decree issued by the […]
(Iran International) A Canadian federal judge has upheld an immigration officer’s decision to deny permanent residency to an Iranian asylum seeker because of his mandatory military service in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In a decision issued on Monday, Justice Anne […]
(Brussels Times) A 27-year-old man from Menen, West Flanders, was sentenced again on Wednesday to 15 years in prison by the Ghent Court of Appeal for attempting a terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIL). Abubakar S., of Chechen origin, […]
(CBC) A youth in the Greater Toronto Area has been charged with terrorism-related offences after allegedly editing and posting ISIS propaganda videos, say the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a news release Tuesday, the RCMP said its Central Ontario team and GTA […]
(Toronto Sun) As the United States prepares to declare a contentious Islamic group a terrorist entity, pressure is growing here at home for Canada to follow suit. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated his administration’s intention to declare the Muslim Brotherhood […]
(Philenews) The Supreme Court of Cyprus has ruled as lawful the arrest of an Azeri national detained since June 2025 on suspicion of terrorism against the British bases at Akrotiri and espionage targeting the Andreas Papandreou Air Base in Paphos. The court […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Criminal Court has sentenced two men from the Balkans, the so-called “Frères de Genève” [the Geneva Brothers], to 30 and 53 months in prison for their support of the Islamic State group. However, the court on Monday acquitted […]
(Philenews) A high-profile case in Cyprus that was presented as a terrorism plot and drew the attention of then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has ended with a conspiracy-to-murder conviction. The Nicosia Criminal Court sentenced 42-year-old Orhan Asadov to six and a half […]
(Jewish News) The deputy leader of the Greens has stated that a councillor under Charity Commission investigation for sharing a Hamas press conference on social media has the “full backing” of the party. Cllr Abdul Malik has been suspended as chair of […]
(National Post) A Canadian Jewish advocacy group is demanding answers after an anti-Israel tribunal was held at the Senate of Canada over the weekend. “It is completely unacceptable that the Senate provided its space to speakers with documented histories of promoting antisemitism […]
(AFP) A 19-year-old Syrian went on trial in Berlin on Thursday over a knife attack on a Spanish tourist at the German capital’s Holocaust memorial days before February’s general election. The suspect, partially named as Wassim Al M., is accused of being […]
(BBC) A former restaurant owner accused of plotting a terror atrocity against Jews has denied he is a “shameless liar.” Walid Saadaoui, 38, is said to have wanted to cause “untold harm” and kill as many people as he could in a […]
(AFP) Sweden on Thursday charged a 23-year-old Swedish-Syrian man with several “terrorist crimes,” including attempts to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State (IS) group, prosecutors said. He is also accused of both financing and attempting to finance IS through cryptocurrencies, […]
(Reuters) Germany’s interior minister on Wednesday backed Berlin’s decision to strip a man of his citizenship for supporting Hamas, saying naturalised citizens should forfeit their nationality when they are found not to uphold German values. The decision comes as Germany tightens immigration […]
(Times of Israel) Recently foiled Hamas terrorist plots in Europe were planned in Qatar and possibly Turkey, the Mossad intelligence agency said Wednesday, detailing results of a lengthy probe into the busted schemes. The spy agency said in a statement that it […]
(Global News) Usama Ali is an alleged Hamas operative, leader and financier. He is also Canadian. And so are others in the Palestinian terrorist group that killed 1,200 and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, Global News has learned. […]
(Sky News) Violent extremists are using AI to evade social media moderation, according to the leader of one of Europe’s leading violence prevention task forces. Speaking at TikTok’s Trust and Safety Forum in Dublin, Judy Korn, managing director of the Violence Prevention […]
(ITV) A man accused of hatching a terrorist attack to “kill as many Jewish people as possible” only pretended to go along with the plot so he could “sabotage it” and “take the evidence to the police,” a jury has heard. Walid […]
(GB News) A High Court judge has ruled the segregation of a convicted terrorist from other prisoners following an attack breached his human rights. Sahayb Abu received a life sentence for terrorism offences with a minimum term of 19 years in 2021 […]
(Jerusalem Post) An 18-year-old from south London appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism after officers arrested him at Gatwick Airport as he tried to board a flight to Istanbul; prosecutors said he planned […]
(BBC) A Lebanese man has gone on trial in Celle, northern Germany, accused of being a member of Hezbollah — a Shia Muslim group whose military wing is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the EU. The 35-year-old man, named only as […]
(AFP) An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said. The man, who holds dual Swedish and Syrian citizenship, had sworn loyalty to the […]
(ITV) A man accused of a terror plot was “very happy” running an Italian restaurant in Norfolk before he moved to the north-west of England, where he allegedly planned to target a mass gathering of Jews, a court has heard. Tunisian national […]
(Western Standard) A Conservative MP is introducing a bill that would criminalize the promotion of terrorism. Roman Baber, MP for York Centre, announced a motion in the House to criminalize its willful promotion. Baber states in the clip, “Colleagues, we need a […]
(National Post) Zachareah Quraishi of Airdrie, Alta., was released from the Canadian Armed Forces reserves on July 10, last summer. Within 12 days, he’d bought a plane ticket to Israel, rented a car, and obtained a large kitchen knife. Israeli authorities say […]
(Politics Home) A secretive Home Office department funded a little-known boyband to travel around Muslim areas of the UK and sing songs with anti-radicalisation themes during the height of ISIS terror attacks, PoliticsHome can reveal. Mr Meanor, a pop trio featuring singers […]
(Jerusalem Post) Germany has filed charges against a Syrian national on allegations of ISIS membership, Germany’s public prosecutor general at the Federal Court of Justice stated on Friday. “The accused is sufficiently suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization,” the public […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Belgian state has paid former al-Qaeda terrorist Nizar Trabelsi €350,000, allegedly in relation to his detention conditions and an “illegal” extradition to the US. Trabelsi — formerly a Tunisian professional footballer — was arrested in September 2001 for his […]
(Jewish News) Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced an independent review of the UK’s public order and hate crime legislation in the wake of last month’s terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue. The review, to be led by Lord Macdonald of River […]
(European Conservative) Belgium’s ongoing evacuation of people from the Gaza Strip has triggered a political storm after footage emerged of two young boys arriving at Ostend Airport wearing black sweatshirts printed with large images of an M16 rifle. The pair was among […]
(Sky News) A man accused of buying knives and testing chemicals for an attack on soldiers at Windsor Castle barracks has pleaded guilty to a string of terror charges. Ilyas Akhtar, 20, from Slough, Berkshire, appeared at the Old Bailey by video […]
(Brussels Times) Belgian IS fighter Sammy Djedou, who is believed to be dead, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday by the Brussels Assize Court for genocide and crimes against humanity. Djedou left for Syria in 2012 and committed serious crimes against […]
(Sky News) A sixth suspected member of Hamas has been arrested in Germany accused of being part of a plot to attack Jewish targets. Lebanese-born Mahmoud Z was detained on a train in northern Germany on Thursday morning after crossing the border […]
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