(AFP) German federal prosecutors said Friday they were investigating a 26-year-old Syrian man for two separate knife attacks in the western city of Duisburg, where an Islamist motive was suspected. The federal prosecutor’s office, which generally investigates cases including terrorist incidents, was […]
(BBC) London’s emergency services are facing “capacity pressures” that may impact their ability to respond to major terrorist incidents, City Hall politicians say. The warning comes in a new report published by the London Assembly’s police and crime committee. The cross-party group […]
(AFP) Belgium said Thursday it is studying a request from Iran for the transfer of one of its diplomats who is serving time on a conviction for terrorism offences. “It is true that Iran has officially requested the transfer of Mr Assadollah […]
(AP) A man arrested over last week’s stabbing attack at a gym in western Germany in which four people were wounded is now also a suspect in a fatal stabbing earlier this month, prosecutors said Thursday. The 26-year-old Syrian, whom authorities are […]
(AFP) German prosecutors on Thursday charged a stateless man of Palestinian origin with two counts of murder over a knife attack on a train in January that killed two teenagers. Having previously ruled out a “terrorist” motive in the rampage that also […]
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(Times of Israel) An alleged financier for the Hezbollah terrorist organization was arraigned in a federal court in New York City on Wednesday. Mohammad Bazzi has been accused of funneling millions of dollars to the Lebanese terror group. The US Justice Department […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium’s Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne has contradicted an announcement made by Iran that the much-discussed prisoner swap to free Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been agreed. Despite long efforts to broker an agreement that would see Vandecasteele liberated […]
(AP) A northern Virginia man who traveled to Pakistan with four friends nearly 15 years ago seeking to engage in holy war pleaded guilty Wednesday to a terrorism charge, but he is likely to receive only a 1-day jail sentence. The guilty […]
(AP) The chair of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on emerging national security threats said at a hearing Wednesday that much has been learned about enhancing emergency response and counterterrorism efforts in the decade since the Boston Marathon bombing, but more can still […]
(National-UAE) Two British women who travelled to the Middle East to join ISIS and are now detained in a camp in Syria have lost their latest round of a legal fight with the UK government. The women, both of whom have children, […]
(National-UAE) A Syrian man appeared before a Dutch court on Tuesday in a pretrial hearing after being accused of serving as an ISIS security chief in his home country between 2014 and 2018. Ayham S, 38, with a black beard, T-shirt and […]
(AP) German authorities have arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of planning to carry out an explosives attack motivated by Islamic extremism, officials said Tuesday. Federal police said officers arrested the 28-year-old man early Tuesday in the northern city of Hamburg based […]
(Breitbart) The British government will reportedly introduce mandatory age checks for illegal migrants who claim to be children as a migrant claiming to be 17 to better his chances at receiving asylum was revealed to be a 42-year-old former ISIS fighter with […]
(Global News) Almost a decade after he became the first person convicted of trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group, Mohamed Hersi is being released from prison amid concerns he remains a threat. In a decision released on Monday, the […]
(AP) A suspect has been arrested over last week’s stabbing attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg in which four people were seriously wounded, authorities said Sunday. The man, a 26-year-old Syrian citizen, was arrested shortly after midnight, […]
(Washington Post) A Virginia man who left the United States more than 14 years ago to fight alongside extremist groups in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Friday to a terrorism charge in federal court in Alexandria, but U.S. prosecutors are not seeking prison time […]
(AFP) A Paris court on Friday sentenced a Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in the French capital that left four people dead. The court followed the prosecutors’ request for the maximum […]
(AFP) A French court has sentenced four men between five and 15 years in jail for plotting an attack on Paris’s emblematic Champs Elysees avenue. A fifth walked free as he had already served his term in pre-trial custody. The five defendants […]
(Daily Caller) Border Patrol nabbed 80 individuals at the southern border whose names appeared on the terror watchlist in just six months, meaning the number of potential terrorists apprehended at the border is on pace to shatter the previous record, according to […]
(CBC) Two Canadian women and three teenage girls who were set to be repatriated from camps for family members of ISIS suspects in Syria were instead detained and mistreated by their Kurdish guards rather than being taken to their pick-up point, their […]
(AFP) Belgium on Tuesday said it had formally asked Iran to repatriate jailed aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele from Tehran, after a disputed prisoner exchange treaty entered into force. Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said she had informed her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian […]
(BBC) A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of funding terrorism. Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command detained him in Wales and then transferred him to London. His arrest relates to suspected terrorist financing and money laundering believed to be […]
(Swiss Info) A 25-year-old man, already convicted in Switzerland for supporting banned Islamic terrorist groups, is now accused of being a recruiter, propagandist and fundraiser for Islamic State and al-Qaeda. The Office for the Attorney General (OAG) announced further charges on Monday […]
(AP) With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Saturday by slowly walking together to the memorial sites near […]
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(Sky News) A former grammar school pupil has pleaded guilty to travelling to Syria to join Islamic State, despite previously claiming he had spent his time there playing computer games. Shabazz Suleman had just completed his AS-levels at a grammar school in […]
(NL Times) The Rotterdam District Court sentenced four Dutch women with ties to ISIS to prison terms ranging from 30 to 36 months, with 12 to 15 months of probation. They were found guilty of participating in the terrorist organization, and engaging […]
(Brussels Times) As the trial of the 2016 terror attacks in Brussels progresses, the accused have refused to offer their sincere apologies to the victims and provided little clarification when questioned by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and lawyers on Thursday afternoon. On […]
(ERR) Individuals involved in terrorist activities including those with links to groups such as Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood have become increasingly interested in Estonia’s e-residency program, the Internal Security Service (ISS) reports. The ISS, also known by […]
(AFP) Defendants on trial over the 2016 Brussels attacks recounted Wednesday the anger they felt at the aerial bombardments of the Islamic State group by an international coalition. Nine defendants are currently on trial over the March 22, 2016, suicide bomb attacks […]
(Global News) Two Toronto-area women were ordered released from custody on Tuesday after returning to Canada from detention camps for ISIS suspects in northeast Syria. Ammara Amjad and Dure Ahmed had been detained by the RCMP on terrorism allegations since landing in […]
(Jewish News) Controversial Muslim advocacy group CAGE has been accused of “excusing deliberate murder and inciting hatred” in a social media response to the killing of the two British-Israeli sisters Maia and Rina Dee. In an inflammatory Twitter thread posted on the […]
(NCA NewsWire) A terrorist leader who headed an organisation which was plotting attacks on a series of Sydney landmarks and events including a naval base and the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been jailed for at least 11 years and three […]
(Arab News) Nineteen people suspected of terrorist activity entered the UK via small boats in the English Channel last year, British security services have warned. The suspects, identified via routine fingerprinting, include five Iraqis, five Iranians, four Afghans, four Somalis and one […]
(Local) A 15-year-old boy is being held in connection with a suspected terror plot in Sweden. Another three men also remain in custody. Remand hearings were held at Eskilstuna District Court after five men were seized in raids in the cities of […]
(Arab News) A British Muslim woman returning home to the UK from a holiday in Turkey claimed she was detained by police because she has a similar name as Daesh bride Shamima Begum. Shamina Begum, who was returning to Manchester Airport, said […]
(WMTW) A Waterville teenager has pleaded guilty to a federal indictment that he conspired to provide material support to terrorists — Maine’s first adjudicated ISIS terrorism case. 19-year-old Xavier Pelkey entered his plea in person Friday morning in Bangor Federal Court before […]
(Canadian Press) A Canadian woman who returned to Canada from a prison camp in northeastern Syria this week has been released on bail in Edmonton pending a terrorism peace bond application, Mounties in Alberta said Friday. She was among four Canadian women […]
(Radio France) French prosecutors have called for the trial of 14 people over the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist in 2020. Two adults face the charge of complicity in a terrorist murder. Six other adults and six minors […]
(RTÉ) The British government has won an appeal against a tribunal’s conclusion that a UK entry ban could not be imposed on an Irish former soldier convicted of membership of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group. Lisa Smith, 41, [a] former […]
(Canadian Press) The RCMP says its Federal Policing Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested two women at the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport and is seeking a terrorism peace bond against them under the Criminal Code. Police say in a release Thursday that Ammara […]
(AFP) Jihadists planned a follow-up attack in France during the UEFA Euro 2016 championships, months after killing 130 people in November 2015 attacks in Paris, a defendant in a Brussels trial said Thursday. But that fell apart when a member of the […]
(Global News) The victim slashed in the neck by an alleged ISIS supporter aboard a transit bus in B.C. says the attack was unprovoked. “I wasn’t expecting it at all,” the resident of Surrey, B.C., told his family in text messages written […]
(AAP) More than seven years after the brutal murder of police accountant Curtis Cheng, the man who supplied the revolver to the teen terrorist shooter is now guilty. Mr Cheng’s death shocked the nation and led police to arrest, charge and then […]
(Brussels Times) In the trial for the March 2016 terrorist attacks, one of the suspects admitted responsibility during the interrogation on Wednesday in the Brussels Court of Assizes. The 10 defendants — one of whom is missing, and presumed dead in Syria […]
(CBC) Multiple Canadian women and their children are on their way back to Canada after spending years held in camps for ISIS suspects and their families in northeastern Syria, according to their lawyer. Ottawa lawyer Lawrence Greenspon told CBC News that some of his clients […]
(AFP) The main suspect in the trial of nine alleged jihadists accused of taking part in the March 2016 bombings in Brussels denied on Wednesday having any knowledge of the plot. Salah Abdeslam, a 33-year-old Frenchman already jailed over his role in […]
(AP) A Spanish judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a Moroccan man held in the January slaying of a church officer in the southern city of Algeciras. Authorities identified the alleged assailant in the Jan. 26 machete attack as 25-year-old Yassine […]
(AP) A northern Virginia man convicted on terrorism charges as a teenager has been sent back to prison for a year after violating conditions of his release by meeting with convicted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh and others linked to terrorism. Prosecutors […]
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