(Brussels Times) Victims of the jihadist attacks that left 35 dead and hundreds injured in Brussels on 22 March 2016 want to meet the convicted culprits to get answers to questions left pending at the end of their trial. “Around ten victims […]
(Bergen Record) A New Jersey mayor who was abruptly disinvited from a White House Eid celebration in May was not on the federal terrorism watchlist at the time when the U.S. Secret Service denied his security clearance, his attorneys said in a […]
(Politico) A Muslim Democratic mayor from New Jersey plans to sue the Biden administration seeking to end a federal terrorism watchlist which he has previously said unfairly targets Muslims — including himself this spring at the White House. More details of the […]
(AFP) A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, ending the country’s largest-ever criminal trial. The suicide bombings on March 22, 2016, at Brussels’ main airport […]
(Daily Telegraph) A convicted terror plotter has been charged with gun offences by police as part of their investigations into Sydney’s ongoing gang war. Alo-Bridget Namoa, who called herself the “baby terrorist,” spent three years in prison for plotting a terror attack […]
(NBC) This year U.S. border agents have encountered a “growing number of individuals” on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist trying to enter the country via the southern border, according to the Homeland Threat Assessment released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security. As […]
(AP) Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Thursday it had brought charges of murder, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm against a Syrian citizen in connection with two “Islamist-motivated” knife attacks. The suspect is accused of stabbing a man to death in the […]
(NL Times) Muslim Rights Watch Nederland is suing the Dutch state over a Tilburg man who has been in custody in Spain for over six weeks on terrorism accusations. According to the organization, the state has taken no action to get the […]
(National-UAE) A Belgian court on Wednesday rejected French terrorist Salah Abdeslam’s request not to be extradited to France, saying that his claim that it would be a breach of his human rights was not “sufficiently substantiated.” Abdeslam, 33, was transferred to Belgium […]
(NY Times) The State Department is working to repatriate a family of 10 American citizens stranded in Syria, where they are among the tens of thousands of people effectively imprisoned in desert camps and detention centers from the war against the Islamic […]
(Breitbart) During an interview with CBS New York released on Monday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that there are people “who would exploit even this migrant issue coming through our southern border. They see this as an opportunity to […]
(Washington Examiner) The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security Committee are pushing the federal government to reveal unredacted documents related to Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, urging officials on the 22nd anniversary to turn the materials over to lawmakers […]
(Sky News) Daniel Khalife has appeared in court accused of using bedsheets to strap himself under a food truck to escape from Wandsworth prison. The 21-year-old terror suspect allegedly broke out on Wednesday before being arrested in a London suburb on Saturday […]
(Daily Caller) The Biden administration applauded Saudi Arabia for its involvement in a global infrastructure deal on the anniversary of 9/11, a mass terrorist attack that Saudi Arabia has long been accused of organizing. National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said the […]
(Military Times) A top military court delivered a unanimous decision to uphold the death penalty conviction of ex-Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others at then-Fort Hood, Texas. On Nov. 5, 2009, Hasan walked into a […]
(ITV) An inquest into the death of the Manchester Arena bomber is to be held, it has been confirmed. Salman Abedi died when he exploded a home-made device in the Manchester Arena foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in […]
(AP) Americans looked back Monday on 9/11 with moments of silence, tearful words and appeals to teach younger generations about the terror attacks 22 years ago. “For those of us who lost people on that day, that day is still happening. Everybody […]
(Brussels Times) The court and the jury have started their deliberations on the sentences of the eight convicted men in the next phase of the trial for the March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels. An important legal-technical question is also being discussed […]
(National-UAE) Terrorists found guilty of the Brussels attacks in which 32 people were killed expressed regret for their actions in court on Monday. The suicide attacks in the Belgian capital’s main airport and metro system on March 22, 2016, were claimed by […]
(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam insisted on Monday that he was unfairly tried and a victim of the media during his final remarks to the court in charge of trying the men accused of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels. Abdeslam, […]
(BBC) Daniel Khalife has been charged with escaping from Wandsworth prison, after his four days on the run came to an end on Saturday. The 21-year-old former soldier is due to appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday. He was arrested on […]
(BBC) Terror suspect Daniel Khalife has been arrested in north-west London after a four-day search, police have said. Scotland Yard said the 21-year-old ex-soldier was detained at 10:41 BST after being pulled from a bicycle on a canal towpath in the Northolt […]
(Anadolu) An unidentified person threw a copy of the Muslims’ holy book, the Quran, to the ground and kicked it outside of the Turkish House in New York on Friday morning. The Quran was desecrated at 10:46 a.m. local time (1446 GMT), […]
(Euro Weekly) A 19-year-old Moroccan man has been arrested by National Police officers in the city of Pamplona, accused of his alleged participation in terrorist collaboration crimes. The suspected jihadist, who allegedly aligned himself with the postulates of Daesh, was detained during […]
(AFP) A Dane who claims he was jailed due to work spying on IS group jihadists wraps up his court case Friday aimed at forcing Danish authorities to confirm his story — or not. A ruling in favour of Ahmed Samsam could […]
(Daily Telegraph) A father charged with plotting a terrorist attack against police has renounced his “reckless” and “crazy” actions after he was busted with pro-Islamic State material on how to make a bomb so police stations could be targeted, a court has […]
(VOA) Canadian officials have so far shown little interest in repatriating any of the Canadian nationals still imprisoned among the former Islamic State fighters in Kurdish-run prisons in Syria, illustrating the wider problem confronting their U.S.-backed captors. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]
(Daily Caller) Top Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday demanding information regarding an ISIS-tied smuggler that crossed the southern border. The members […]
(AP) Two Syrian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of membership in extremist groups, and one of them is suspected of involvement in a 2013 attack in eastern Syria in which more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians were killed, […]
(BBC) A nationwide manhunt has been launched for a former soldier suspected of terror offences who escaped from prison on Wednesday morning. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was awaiting trial at HMP Wandsworth in London after being accused of leaving fake bombs at […]
(NY Times) President Biden has rejected a list of proposed conditions sought by the five men who are accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in exchange for pleading guilty and receiving a maximum punishment of life in prison, […]
(NL Times) Around 300 Netherlands residents left for Syria and Iraq in recent years with jihadist intentions. About 90 of them have returned to the Netherlands. About 80 minors have also returned, the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) reported in its […]
(National-UAE) A Belgian prosecutor on Tuesday asked a jury to sentence French terrorist Salah Abdeslam to life in prison for his role in ISIS-claimed suicide attacks against Brussels that killed 35 people and wounded hundreds. “After terrorising France, he decided to continue […]
(AP) Austrian security officials said Tuesday they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman. One suspect was detained. The investigations and interrogations carried out so far show […]
(National-UAE) French terrorist Salah Abdeslam, 33, told a Belgian court on Monday that his upcoming transfer to France would violate his human rights. “My future is in Belgium. Sending me back to France is like sending me to my death,” said Abdeslam, […]
(Brussels Times) The trial of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks, adjourned on 25 July after the guilty verdict, resumed on Monday morning for the closing arguments. The terror attacks trial began at the Justitia in Haren last December and at the […]
(San Antonio Express-News) As he sits in a military prison, condemned to die for killing 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, you might think the state of his beard wouldn’t be Nidal Hasan’s top concern. But just as […]
(Semafor) The investigation into last year’s near-fatal attack on the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie has expanded to examine potential international involvement in the crime, the district attorney overseeing the case in rural New York told Semafor. Jason Schmidt said his office in […]
(BBC) A Bradford man has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with a series of terrorism and fraud offences. Muhammed Saeed Ahmed, 31, was arrested in June 2021 as part of a pre-planned operation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East, and was […]
(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam (33), who faces a life sentence for his part in the March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, does not want to return to France after the trial and instead wants to serve his sentence in a Belgian prison, […]
(CTV) A humanitarian delegation was able to get proof of life from some Canadians who have been held without charge for years in prisons and detention camps in northeast Syria. In a news conference, Senator Kim Pate, who led the delegation, told […]
(National-UAE) Sweden’s counter-terrorism chief warned on Thursday that the country will have to live with a changed image abroad after the repeated burning of the Quran in Stockholm. The country was warned that security threats are likely to remain high for some […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Munich state court on Tuesday imposed a new, extended 14-year prison sentence on former “Islamic State” member Jennifer W. for her role in allowing a young Yazidi girl, named only as Rania, to die of thirst in Iraq in […]
(CNN) The FBI is investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with […]
(BBC) A PhD student accused of plotting to make a drone capable of delivering a bomb was “fascinated” by the Islamic State group because he wanted to argue against their views, a court has heard. At Birmingham Crown Court, prosecutors have alleged […]
(Canadian Press) A 20-year-old Calgary man facing four terrorism-related charges stemming from a TikTok video has retained a new lawyer. Zakarya Rida Hussein was charged in June with two counts of facilitating terrorist activity and two counts of participating in or contributing […]
(NY Times) A military medical board has concluded that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who is accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks, has a mental illness that makes him incompetent to either face trial or plead guilty in the death penalty case, […]
(AP) A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator who sought to join the Islamic State terrorist group to fight in Syria and expressed interest in carrying out attacks on U.S. soil was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison. Muhammad […]
(AFP) Denmark’s spy agencies went on trial on Thursday in a unique lawsuit brought by a Dane who claims he was an undercover informant for Denmark in Syria but wound up in prison over alleged IS group ties. In a case that […]
(NY Post) A bipartisan group of House representatives are demanding the Biden administration abandon a potential plea deal for the accused 9/11 terrorists, which would spare the death penalty for alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other defendants. “If true, this would […]
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