(DPA) The German government is not planning to bring members of the terrorist militia Islamic State with German citizenship who are imprisoned in Syria back to Germany. Following the fall of long-term ruler Bashar al-Assad, there are fears in the West of […]
(AP) Brett Holmgren got woken up early on New Year’s Day by alerts that a driver had plowed into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans. The rampage, which killed 14 people, was the deadliest attack on U.S. soil in years and […]
(WRAL) A Durham man was charged by federal authorities with supporting ISIS and later attempting to join the group, according to court documents that were unsealed on Tuesday. According to federal prosecutors, 29-year-old Alexander Justin White, who went by the name Sulaiman […]
(BBC) A Muslim convert threatened to “flatten” a mosque, plotted to attack an Islamic cleric who was an outspoken critic of terrorism and researched potential military and police targets, a jury heard. Jason Savage, 35, from Small Heath, Birmingham, denies a single […]
(Free Beacon) Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) filed a petition to compel American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) to turn over documents related to the leading anti-Israel group’s alleged terror financing. Though a judge ordered AMP to disclose its funding channels last […]
(Fox) The FBI has released a new image of New Orleans terrorist attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar along with new details about his internet search history as the investigation into the New Year’s attack continues. In a press release, the FBI said the Bourbon […]
(National Post) A planned conference by a radical Islamic group that caused outrage and security concerns has been cancelled a day after the federal government said it was considering declaring the organization a terrorist group. Late on Monday, federal Minister of Public […]
(BBC) A second man has been charged with helping former soldier Daniel Khalife after he escaped from prison. Adeel Khan, 30, from Waltham Forest, east London, is accused of assisting Khalife after he fled HMP Wandsworth in September 2023. Khalife was convicted […]
(Fox) New Orleans terrorist attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar was radicalized by ISIS online “within weeks,” according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Jabbar killed 14 civilians when he rammed a rented Ford F-150 truck through a New Year’s crowd celebrating on Bourbon Street around […]
(Hill) Federal law enforcement is asking the public to remain vigilant as they warn of possible copycat attacks similar to those seen in New Orleans. In a joint statement from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, officials asked the public […]
(NY Post) A Muslim cleric who refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has a “significant history of extremism” has been tapped to deliver a benediction at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. Husham Al-Husainy, the imam of the Karbalaa Islamic […]
(National Post) The federal government is calling on members of a controversial Islamic group to cancel their conference scheduled for this weekend while Canada’s security and intelligence agencies decide if it should be listed as an official terrorist entity. A public outcry […]
(CNN) Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was detained in Italy at the request of the United States following a drone attack that killed three Americans, has been released. Abedini, 38, was arrested in Milan in December on a warrant issued by the […]
(BBC) The government should consider repatriating British members of the Islamic State group (IS) who are being held in Syrian detention camps, the government’s independent terrorism legislation reviewer Jonathan Hall KC has said. Mr Hall’s comments come after Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism […]
(Times of Israel) A pro-Palestinian conference in Denmark has withdrawn the participation of an organization dedicated to prosecuting Israeli soldiers abroad, seemingly due to its founder’s past Hezbollah membership. The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) blamed “false information circulated by the Israeli press” […]
(Morocco World News) In a combative response that further strains diplomatic relations, Algeria rejected French accusations of “escalation” and “humiliation” on Saturday, January 11, after refusing to accept a deported Algerian social media influencer. The latest diplomatic row erupted when Algerian authorities […]
(ITV) Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said the UK government should consider allowing Shamima Begum, who left the country to join the Islamic State group in 2015, to return to the UK. “I’ve never wanted to. I’ve instinctively never wanted to. […]
(AFP) France threatened on Friday to “retaliate” if Algeria escalates a diplomatic row that has flared up over the arrests of Algerian social media influencers accused of inciting violence. Tensions between France and its former colony mounted after Algeria on Thursday sent […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden White House and Senate Democrats have touted their funding for an anti-terrorism initiative they say “has been critical to the security of Jewish institutions.” But the program has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months to […]
(National Post) Hassan Diab, the Ottawa sociology professor who was convicted in absentia in 2023 of a deadly synagogue bombing in France, is “not currently employed” at Carleton University, the school says. In the fall, Diab taught a course at Carleton called […]
(Morocco World News) Former French officials, netizens, and activists have condemned Algeria’s refusal to accept the return of an Algerian influencer, who France expelled on Thursday. French police arrested the influencer known as Doualemn on TikTok on Sunday in Montpellier, after he […]
(AP) The Islamic State group-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Year’s Day in New Orleans fired at police from inside his vehicle before officers fatally shot him, police bodycam footage released Friday shows. “They killed the […]
(Nola.com) More than a week after the vehicle attack on Bourbon Street that left 14 dead and dozens more injured, ISIS on Thursday touted the incident, writing in its newsletter that it inspired the assailant through online propaganda. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old […]
(Politico) Shamima Begum, who left the U.K. to join ISIS while at school, will not be allowed to leave Syria and return to Britain, the government’s top diplomat confirmed Thursday — despite urging from Donald Trump’s incoming team. Foreign Secretary David Lammy […]
(LBC) Sebastian Gorka told LBC that he isn’t “telling the UK what to do,” but that any “serious ally of the US” should be committed to counter-terrorism to protect the so-called special relationship between the UK and US. The incoming counter-terrorism chief […]
(Radio France) French Jewish leaders joined politicians, rights campaigners and some 200 people in eastern Paris on Thursday to mark 10 years since four people were killed in a terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket. The ceremony took place outside the Hypercacher […]
(LBC) The world’s most wanted ISIS woman terrorist is alive and living freely in Syria, 10 years after taking part in a notorious attack in Paris. Hayat [Boumeddiene], 36, and her lover Amedy Coulibaly, then 32, were also part of the Charlie […]
(Fox) A federal appeals court has delayed Friday’s scheduled military court hearing where suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-conspirators were expected to plead guilty as part of a deal negotiated with prosecutors. The pause, though welcomed by the many […]
(AP) After his only child was killed on 9/11, Ken Fairben looked for justice in a far-off military courtroom on the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba. He traveled there multiple times to observe hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh […]
(Arab News) The UAE designated 19 individuals and entities as terrorists on Wednesday due to their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as a terror group in the UAE. Abu Dhabi placed 11 individuals and eight entities on the country’s […]
(National Post) An Islamic group facing a withering reception to plans for a conference dedicated to overthrowing governments to start a Muslim caliphate has issued a rare media statement denying it poses a security risk, and accusing critics of creating fake news. […]
(Fox) Top Republicans in Congress are introducing a new bill to stop the White House from offering plea deals to suspected 9/11 terrorists. A pretrial agreement between the 9/11 defendants and the government removed the death penalty as a possibility for punishment, […]
(AP) After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is reaching a pivotal moment this month. Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the future of many of those last […]
(NBC) The New Orleans truck attacker built two bombs using what investigators believe was an explosive so powerful that they could have sprayed shrapnel hundreds of yards and potentially killed or wounded hundreds of people. The bombs did not detonate on New […]
(Global News) The terrorist threat in Canada “has rarely been higher,” according to a report released on Wednesday in the aftermath of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. “The bottom line: Terrorism in Canada is on the rise,” said the […]
(CBC) The Mounties are asking Canadians to come forward with any information that can help U.S. authorities probe the attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Early that morning a man drove a pickup truck along a […]
(Radio France) The attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on 7 January 2015 triggered a wave of violence against Muslims across France and called into question the country’s approach to freedom of expression. The 2015 attack by the Paris-born Kouachi brothers, of Algerian descent, was […]
(AP) A decade after Islamic extremist gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core and ignited a global outcry in defense of freedom of speech, the nation paused on Tuesday […]
(Radio France) A decade after jihadists stormed its Paris newsroom killing eight staff members, satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is charting an ambitious course for its next 10 years. Chief editor [Gérard] Biard tells RFI the paper remains resolute in its mission to […]
(BBC) A 25-year-old man has denied helping former soldier Daniel Khalife after his escape from Wandsworth Prison in September 2023. Imran Chowdhury of Chingford in north-east London pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to a charge of assisting an escaped prisoner. […]
(AP) The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the […]
(NBC) A common chemical used for explosives was discovered in a Texas storage locker linked to the Army veteran who killed 14 people and injured more than two dozen others when he plowed into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, law enforcement […]
(Belga) Belgian-Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah plans to take legal action over threatening social media posts from an Israeli minister, who referred to Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah. The threat comes shortly after Abou Jahjah and his organisation Hind Rajab Foundation filed […]
(Jerusalem Post) Dyab Abou Jahjah, the man behind the Hind Rajab Foundation, which has been doxxing Israeli soldiers and seeking legal action against them in foreign states, admitted to joining Hezbollah as a youth and implied that he was returning to Lebanon […]
(AFP) French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Monday ordered increased security at major gatherings following vehicle ramming attacks in Germany and the United States. Retailleau sought “optimal security conditions” in a memo to officials seen by AFP. “Given the high level of […]
(Euro Weekly) 81 people in Spain were detained for jihadism-related crimes in 2024, making this the highest number of jihad terrorism arrests for the second consecutive year, since 2004. The arrests of the four Moroccan-born teenagers from Elche just before Christmas who […]
(NY Times) The U.S. military sent 11 Yemeni prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to Oman to restart their lives, the Pentagon said on Monday, leaving just 15 men in the prison in a bold push at [the] end of the Biden administration that […]
(LBC) A man has been charged with aiding ex-British Army officer Daniel Khalife after he escaped from a south London prison. Imran Chowdury, 25, from Chingford in east London, is accused of helping the 23-year-old former soldier after he busted out of […]
(National Post) A controversial Canadian Islamic group is resurrecting its annual conference calling for the return of an Islamic caliphate and imposition of Shariah law that was abruptly cancelled last year after its sister organization was declared a terrorist entity in Britain. […]
(BBC) Exactly 10 years after the jihadist gun attack that killed most of its editorial staff, France’s Charlie Hebdo has put out a special issue to show its cause is still kicking. Things changed for France on 7 January 2015, marking in […]
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