(Jewish News) The 7 October Hamas attack was praised as “just so beautiful” at a “peace and unity” festival at one of the UK’s top exhibition centres. Iranian Press TV presenter Latifa Abouchakra also described the atrocities in which Hamas terrorists killed […]
(Sky News) A soldier was only arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran after he twice emailed MI6 and then rang MI5 twice offering to be a double agent, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, from Kingston, southwest London, is accused […]
(Assahifa) The Spanish police, based on Moroccan intelligence, arrested two individuals in the city of Melilla on Tuesday, suspected of belonging to the terrorist organization “ISIS,” through the recruitment and training of jihadists to carry out attacks. According to Spanish media reports, […]
(Sky News) Two survivors of the Manchester Arena attack have won their harassment case against a conspiracy theorist who claims the bombing was “staged.” Former television producer Richard Hall has claimed without evidence that the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in […]
(Washington Examiner) A coalition of pro-Israel watchdogs is pressing the Biden-Harris administration to sanction a network of groups that the coalition warns are fronts for Palestinian terrorist factions, according to a letter. The letter, sent on Wednesday to the Treasury Department and […]
(BBC) A Metropolitan Police officer who posted abusive tweets about Jewish and non-Muslim people has been dismissed without notice. Ruby Begum, 29, admitted to a police misconduct hearing she used language such as “dirty Zionists” while serving as a special constable but […]
(BBC) A “misguided” father-of-two who sent US dollars to a nephew who was fighting for an Islamist terrorist group in Syria has been given a community sentence. Restaurant worker Farhad Mohammad, [46], from Colchester, made payments totalling $350 (£270) suspecting his relative […]
(BBC) A jury has seen CCTV footage of a former soldier reading newspaper articles about his breakout from prison while allegedly on the run. Video shown at the Woolwich Crown Court trial of Daniel Khalife showed him in a west London newsagent […]
(Swiss Info) A Swiss parliamentary committee has voted in favour of banning both Hamas and Lebanon’s militia Hezbollah in Switzerland. The Security Policy Committee of the Swiss House of Representatives, along with its counterpart in the Senate, voted 20 to 2, with […]
(AP) German prosecutors said Tuesday they have filed an indictment against a man who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and planned to carry out an attack in Germany on its behalf. The Iraqi national, identified only as Mahmoud A. […]
(Sky News) A soldier accused of escaping from Wandsworth prison had earlier spent more than three weeks on the run after leaving a fake bomb on his desk at an army barracks, a court heard. Following his arrest after he went absent […]
(BBC) A man who shared online material “glorifying acts of terrorism” in support of the Islamic State group (IS) has been given a community order. Ryan Scuffil, from Somerset, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in London on Monday following an […]
(Sky News) A soldier boasted about stealing “crypto” shortly after a USB stick containing secret material went missing, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, from Kingston, south-west London, is accused of spending two years collecting secrets while serving with the Royal […]
(Jewish News) A Metropolitan Police officer has apologised for posting offensive tweets about Jewish people and non-Muslims, but denied they warranted her dismissal. Pc Ruby Begum, 29, admitted during a police misconduct hearing on Monday that she used offensive language such as […]
(Townhall) Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) only has a few months left in office, but the Squad member is being lauded in other ways for his anti-Israel narratives. While Bowman lost his primary to Westchester County Executive George Latimer in June, he’ll be […]
(European Conservative) Mohammed Khatib, a leading figure in the Islamist Samidoun group, has been announced as the main speaker at a seminar hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), scheduled for the end of October, reports the NieuwRechts website. While the Islamist outfit […]
(Patch) Several New Jersey residents have been linked to a “persistent terror threat” to America from foreign jihadist networks and home-grown violent extremists, according to a new U.S. House report. The House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence released a “Terror […]
(Daily Caller) The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ), which serves as the fiscal sponsor for a group the U.S. government recently determined is an arm of a Palestinian terrorist organization, has received nearly $20 million from liberal American philanthropies since 2020. Left-of-center […]
(NBC) The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has ramped up its recruitment efforts in the past year, American officials and analysts say, rolling out a sophisticated propaganda campaign designed to persuade disaffected Muslims to carry out terrorist plots in the U.S. and […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Libyan man with alleged ties to the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group was set to appear before Germany’s highest court on Sunday, charged with planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin. The man was detained on Saturday in […]
(Sky News) Islamist terrorism may get a “further boost” from recent unrest in the Middle East, including the killing of the leader of Hamas, a former head of MI6 has warned. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the 7 October attack, was killed […]
(Morocco World News) The Spanish National Police, in collaboration with Morocco’s Directorate General for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), arrested two individuals in northern Spain suspected of being linked to the terrorist organization Daesh. The arrests took place on Friday in the towns of […]
(National Post) It was September 2000, and Charlotte Kates was in college when violence erupted in the West Bank and Gaza. It was the beginning of what would become known as the second intifada — a violent uprising whose Arabic name means […]
(AP) An appellate court on Friday denied a request to move the trial of the New Jersey man charged with attacking author Salman Rushdie with a knife in 2022, clearing the way for the trial to move forward in the western New […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of escaping prison “congratulated” a police officer on catching him after he was stopped on a west London canal towpath, a court has heard. The plain-clothes detective sergeant, who was not named in court, said he […]
(GB News) A Muslim police officer, praised as a role model for confronting anti-lockdown protesters while wearing a hijab, is now facing dismissal from Scotland Yard due to alleged connections with a female jihadist in Syria. PC Ruby Begum, 29, allegedly posted […]
(Free Beacon) A nonprofit in Dearborn, Mich., that has received $24 million in taxpayer funds under the Biden-Harris administration will host dozens of physicians, government officials, and activists at an “Arab health summit” next week to address “health amidst conflict and crisis” […]
(BBC) The 13-year-old boy should have been in school last Thursday, instead of sitting in a police station in central Gothenburg. But police say he fired shots outside the offices of Israeli tech firm Elbit Systems. “He was basically caught in the […]
(BBC) A teenager from Birmingham has been charged with terrorism offences. Adam Mahmood, 19, has been accused of disseminating terrorism material, West Midlands Police confirmed. A force spokesperson said he was arrested at a residential address in April this year during a […]
(Jewish News) Police have interviewed two people under caution who are alleged to have been holding placards showing support for the proscribed Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah at a pro-Palestine demo in London earlier this month. Earlier this month Jewish News exclusively revealed […]
(AP) An Afghan man who is accused of plotting an Election Day attack in the U.S. was ordered Thursday to remain in custody as officials disclosed that he had previously worked as a security guard for an American military installation in Afghanistan. […]
(LBC) The contents of notebooks purportedly belonging to Daniel Khalife, the former soldier accused of spying for Iran, have been released for the first time. The black notebooks, released on Wednesday during Khalife’s spying trial, appear to show his plans to distribute […]
(Courthouse News) Two women kept as slaves by members of the Islamic State militant group described their experiences in captivity, including losing children, in a Dutch court on Wednesday. The women, referred to by the court as Z. and S. for privacy […]
(Fox) The Biden-Harris administration now admits that an Afghan national accused of plotting an Election Day terror attack did not undergo certain vetting they previously claimed he passed. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was never vetted or approved by the State Department for […]
(VOA) Recent arrests in the United States and in Europe have law enforcement and intelligence agencies on alert, bolstering concerns about a reinvigorated Islamic State terror group bent on lashing out against the West. FBI officials Wednesday confirmed the bureau shared information […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of spying has claimed he made up much of the information he sent to the Iranians. Daniel Khalife, 23, is on trial at Woolwich Crown Court on charges of collecting sensitive military information for Iran as […]
(Vancouver Sun) The provincial government has not laid criminal charges against the director of a terrorist organization almost six months after being asked to by Vancouver police. On Wednesday, the B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed it was still reviewing a report from the […]
(Philenews) Police have begun proceedings to issue detention and deportation orders for eight Syrian nationals arrested last week on suspicion of terrorism offences. The five-day detention order for the suspects expires at midnight, with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, which led […]
(Toronto Sun) Wednesday’s joint declaration of Vancouver-based Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a terrorist entity by both Canada and the United States was a long time coming, says one prominent terror watchdog. Gerald Steinberg, president of the Jerusalem-based research institute NGO […]
(Free Beacon) The U.S. Department of Treasury, in a joint action with the Canadian government, sanctioned the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and one of its leaders for providing material support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a […]
(Sky News) A man has been jailed for terror offences after sending high-tech rifle parts abroad for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Muhammad Choudhary, 41, from east London, was sentenced to seven years in prison at the Old Bailey on Tuesday after previously […]
(Brussels Times) Today marks one year since the terror attacks which killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels. On 16 October 2023, Tunisian national Abdesalem Lassoued shot and killed two Swedish football fans who were in Brussels to attend a match at […]
(AFP) A Syrian man went on trial in Germany Tuesday accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for Hezbollah on the side of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The defendant, identified by the court in Stuttgart only as 32-year-old Ammar […]
(NBC) ISIS-K, the Afghan branch of the Islamic State, directed an Afghan man’s foiled U.S. Election Day terror plot, according to two senior U.S. officials briefed on the matter. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested by the FBI last week in Oklahoma […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of spying for Iran first tried to make contact with the Iranians by sending a Facebook message, a trial has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, is on trial on charges of collecting sensitive military information for Iran […]
(NBC) A pro-Hamas organization that has helped organize protests on American college campuses is a “sham charity” that fundraises for a terrorist group, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. In a joint action by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner […]
(National Post) Samidoun, a Vancouver-based anti-Israel organization, has been designated as a terror group in both Canada and the United States. “The listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code sends a strong message that Canada will not tolerate […]
(Jewish News) The Guardian has admitted “collective failure” led to the publication of a review of a Channel 4 documentary about 7 October that criticised the negative portrayal of Hamas terrorists. A statement to Jewish News on Tuesday morning: “A review of […]
(National-UAE) Iran has turned to gang criminals in Germany to help it pursue and threaten regime critics living abroad, a spy chief said on Monday. Thomas Haldenwang, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, named Iran and Turkey as two of four […]
(LBC) “Jaw-dropping” footage shows that Met Police officers working at a recent London march were unaware that Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist group. The officers, who were policing a march in central London last month, told a concerned bystander who informed them […]
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