(Sky News) A barber shop owner sent £25,000 to Islamic State (IS) fighters in Syria after claiming thousands of pounds in COVID grants, a court has heard. Tarek Namouz, 43, from west London, had received money from the government to assist his […]
(Middle East Eye) A coalition of advocacy groups have called for the release of the Holy Land Five, a group of Palestinian-American men who were convicted of funding terrorism in a case civil liberties groups say highlights the disproportionate targeting of Muslim charities […]
(BBC) Shamima Begum joined the Islamic State group “with her eyes open,” government lawyers have told a tribunal. Ms Begum’s British citizenship was removed after she travelled to IS-controlled Syria aged 15. Challenging the decision, her legal team argue she was trafficked […]
(CBC) An independent government agency is reviewing how Canada’s spy agency handles human sources after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in August to follow up on claims that an ISIS member who was also working as a CSIS operative smuggled three British teenagers into Syria in 2015. The three […]
(BBC) An 18-year-old man has been arrested … on suspicion of terrorism offences. Officers from Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command made the arrest after attending a property in Walsall on Tuesday. The teenager was held under the Terrorism Act 2006 on suspicion […]
(National-UAE) Bomb and chemical weapons instructions linked to the Manchester Arena bomber have been removed from the internet. The recent video had received more than 100 views. Suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people and injured more than 1,000 when he exploded […]
(BBC) The removal of Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship in 2019 was unlawful, her lawyers have argued. Ms Begum’s citizenship was stripped after she travelled to Islamic State group-controlled Syria when she was 15. In a hearing challenging the decision, her legal team […]
(NY Post) At least 40 individuals on the US terrorist watch list have been nabbed while trying to enter the country in the last month, according to US Customs and Border Protection. In October, nine people whose names are flagged on the terror watch […]
(Sky News) The police and her school missed opportunities to stop Shamima Begum travelling to Syria and joining ISIS and should have stopped her, according to her lawyers. There were questions about whether “key indicators” that Ms Begum and her two school […]
(NCA NewsWire) A controversial law that aims to keep terrorists behind bars after the completion of their prison sentences is under review. On Monday the independent national security legislation monitor (INSLM), Grant Donaldson SC, continued his assessment of Division 105A of the […]
(Sky News) Shamima Begum, the jihadi bride, was trafficked by ISIS for sexual exploitation, her lawyers have told a hearing to appeal against her deprivation of citizenship. She launched her main appeal against the decision, with her lawyers telling a tribunal: “Shamima […]
(AFP) Spain has decided to repatriate several Spanish wives and children of Islamic State fighters from jihadist detention camps in Syria, the government said Monday. The return of relatives of captured or killed jihadist fighters from Syria and Iraq has been a […]
(ITV) Shamima Begum “in some respects … would have known what she was doing” when she travelled to Syria as a teenager to join a terror group, an MI5 officer has told a court. Ms Begum, now 23, was 15 when she […]
(ITV) Lives are at risk because ministers are dragging their feet with a law requiring venues to improve their security, counter-terror chiefs and victims’ families have warned. Britain’s former top counter-terror officer Neil Basu joined Figen Murray, whose son died in the […]
(BBC) Terrorist offenders will face longer sentences if they commit crime while in prison, Dominic Raab has said. Currently, prisoners will usually get a maximum sentence of 42 days for offences carried out behind bars. But the justice secretary says crimes committed […]
(ITV) A former Canadian intelligence officer has called for Shamima Begum to be returned to the UK because of what she claims were failures and a cover-up involving the spy agency she once worked for. Huda Mukbil, who used to be a […]
(AFP) A 35-year-old Danish woman was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for entering Syria and promoting the Islamic State (IS) group’s activities, prosecutors in Denmark said. During the mother of five’s trial, the prosecutor had argued that wives were […]
(BBC) A man and a teenage boy from Birmingham have appeared at the Old Bailey accused of planning to join the Islamic State group in Afghanistan. Muhammad Abdul Haleem Heyder Khan, 20, and a 17-year-old who cannot be named due to his […]
(Brussels Times) Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of French-speaking liberal party MR, repeated on Wednesday his call for an independent body to oversee the justice system after the assailant who murdered a police [officer] last week was found to have already been under increased […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) An unusual terrorism case in Chicago came to a close Thursday when a federal judge handed a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence to a former DePaul University student who tried to aid the Islamic State with a computer script. Before he was […]
(Breitbart) Over the last four years, France has released 343 convicted terrorists from prison, releasing 72 so far this year, with detainees still considered threats and placed under intelligence and judicial supervision. Islamic terrorist convicts are still numerous in French prisons, with […]
(Detroit Free Press) Federal officials charged a former metro Detroit man with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device. The indictment, which […]
(Breitbart) The main suspect in an alleged terrorist attack that left one police officer dead and another injured last week in Brussels is said to have been in possession of hundreds of Islamic books. Yassine Mahi, the man arrested for the killing […]
(Global News) It would be “unprecedented and unprincipled” to help Canadian ISIS suspects detained in Syria, the federal government has argued in a court filing. Responding to a lawsuit by the families of Canadians captured during the fight against ISIS, the government […]
(Brussels Times) The deradicalisation centre for the support and care of anyone affected by violent extremism and radicalism (Caprev), which followed up on the suspect of the knife attack — Yassine M. — that killed one police officer and gravely injured another […]
(Connexion) French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is among those to have paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks of November 13, seven years after 130 died and 350 were injured. A minute of silence was observed today, November 13, 2022, […]
(Euro Weekly) The National Police in Spain say they have detailed a jihadist in Murcia who planned to martyr himself today, on Remembrance Day. The detainee, who allegedly consumed “violent and propaganda material of a jihadist nature,” had also “expressed his desire […]
(AFP) Belgian authorities faced questions Friday over how a convict on a terrorism watch list was able to stab a police officer to death, hours after making threats and demanding psychiatric treatment. Between 2016 and 2018, Belgium faced a wave of deadly […]
(AP) Belgian authorities said Friday that the lone assailant who killed one police officer and wounded another in a stabbing attack had been on a counterterrorism list of potential extremists. The Belgian suspect, who had served six years in prison for common-law […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man told a person on social media he wanted to kill “non-Muslims” and began planning a terror attack in New Zealand, Stuff can now report. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted […]
(Boston Herald) ICE agents returned a British-born member of al-Qaida, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon, to England. Haroon Rashid Aswat, 48, of Batley in West Yorkshire, England, had been at a federal […]
(AP) A lone assailant killed one police officer and wounded another Thursday in a stabbing attack that two Belgian judicial officials said was suspected to be terrorism-linked. The suspect was shot and taken to a hospital. Eric Van der Sypt, from the […]
(JTA) Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged a New Jersey teenager with extremist Islamist views with making the threat that led to a sweeping FBI warning for the state’s synagogues last week. Omar Alkattoul, 18, of Sayreville, New Jersey, is charged with […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man has admitted threatening to kill “non-Muslims” and distributing an Isis video. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted threatening to kill, two charges of distributing objectionable publications and six counts of […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant banned from entering Europe and on a French terrorist watchlist was arrested in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on Sunday. The 24-year-old Tunisian migrant named Omar J. was arrested last Sunday in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis and […]
(NCA NewsWire) The four “ISIS brides” repatriated to Australia alongside their children could be subjected to control orders, with the matter under investigation. The Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw told senate estimates there was also an active investigation into whether the […]
(Breitbart) Danish prosecutors have charged three women, all in their thirties, for promoting terrorism after travelling to Syria where they joined the Islamic State and married members of the jihadist terror organisation. The three women, aged 33, 35, and 38, have been […]
(NL Times) The 12 women suspected of terrorism who were picked up from northern Syria on Tuesday will remain in custody for two more weeks, the examining magistrate of the court in Rotterdam decided on Friday. The women and their 28 children […]
(Brussels Times) French terrorist Salah Abdeslam — who is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2015 Paris terror attacks — has married a woman he has never met, French media has reported. According to RTL France, Abdeslam, 33, […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena inquiry has published a catalogue of failings and mistakes by the emergency services following the terror attack in 2017. Chairman Sir John Saunders highlighted a number of failures of the emergency response to the suicide bombing and said […]
(AAP) The impending resettlement of more relatives of Islamic State fighters has reared as a Victorian election issue, with the state opposition objecting. A group of 17 Australian women and children who have been in the al-Roj camp in Syria since the […]
(Swiss Info) The government says it has no plans to ban the Islamist militant Hezbollah group in Switzerland as it posed no major terrorist threat. The Lebanon-based group is not very active in Switzerland and no fundraising or other financial activities are […]
(CBS) The Kansas woman who admitted she discussed an attack on an American college and trained over 100 fighters in an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria, 42-year-old Allison Fluke-Ekren, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison and 25 years of supervised […]
(NL Times) Twelve Dutch women were picked up in Syria and will be transported to the Netherlands where they will be taken into custody for crimes related to terrorism offenses, the Dutch Cabinet confirmed on Tuesday. Their 28 children were also collected, […]
(Canadian Press) A psychiatrist involved in efforts to support children of Canadian women detained in Syria after travelling to join the Islamic State is urging Ottawa to speed up repatriation efforts. Dr. Cécile Rousseau, a pediatric psychiatrist at McGill University and an […]
(NCA NewsWire) An emotional man has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren as four families returned home to Australia after being taken from a camp for Islamic State families in Syria. Seventeen people — four women and 13 children — touched […]
(Breitbart) Local government officials in England will censor the name and ethnicity of the London Bridge terrorist in an official report, to avoid “demonising” Muslims. The Safeguarding Overview and Scrutiny Committee of Staffordshire County Council produced the report on Usman Khan, who stabbed […]
(ABC-Australia) The first group of Australian women and children held in a detention camp in north-east Syria since the fall of the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 is en route to Sydney. The ABC can reveal four women and 13 children […]
(Canadian Press) A British Columbia woman who was repatriated to Canada from a detention camp in Syria this week after marrying an ISIS fighter has been granted bail pending a peace bond hearing. Kimberly Polman will be released on recognizance and will […]
(National Post) Zakaria Amara, leader of an al-Qaida-inspired terrorist plot to explode truck bombs in Ontario in 2006, recently faced two days of interrogation by RCMP national security investigators to assess what threat he might still pose as he sought release on […]
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