(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 […]
(Canadian Press) A Quebec woman who allegedly travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been repatriated from a detention camp in Syria and is facing terrorism charges, the RCMP said Wednesday. Oumaima Chouay faces charges of leaving Canada […]
(CBC) A provincial court judge will hold a bail hearing Thursday morning for a B.C. woman who returned to Canada this week after years spent in Syria as the bride of an ISIS fighter. Kimberly Polman made a brief appearance in Chilliwack provincial […]
(CBC) Police have arrested two Canadian women and charged one with terrorism-related offences after the federal government repatriated them from a detention camp in Syria for ISIS fighters’ family members. The RCMP said it arrested Oumaima Chouay on terrorism charges Tuesday night […]
(CBC) At least two Canadian women have left a detention camp in Syria and will be arriving in Canada on Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned. The women left the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria — which holds women allegedly tied to […]
(Euronews) A man has been jailed in France for posting online hate speech messages targeting victims of the 2016 Nice terror attack. The 21-year-old was found to have “praised” the attack on Instagram, posting that “80 fascists had disappeared.” Several videos and […]
(Breitbart) A man already subject to a deportation order from France was arrested over the weekend in the commune of Saint-Etienne after he publicly yelled “Allahu akbar” in the street while carrying a knife. The man, aged 31, was arrested on Saturday evening […]
(IPT) When U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib argued last month that true progressives cannot “back Israel’s apartheid government,” she and her supporters insisted it wasn’t an antisemitic statement covering the vast majority of American Jews. As I noted at the time, however, the […]
(AP) A Kansas native convicted of leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group had a long history of monstrous behavior that included sexual and physical abuse of her own children, family members said in court filings. Prosecutors cited the abuse […]
(AFP) A man who received orders from the jihadist Islamic State group to carry out a drone attack against a Barcelona-Real Madrid football match was sentenced Monday by a Spanish court to three years in jail. Mohammed Yassi Amrani, a former bar […]
(NY Post) Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after he was repeatedly stabbed during a literary event in upstate New York two months ago, his agent said. The 75-year-old author, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic […]
(Fox) The number of migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border climbed to a record more than 227,000 during the month of September and more than 2.3 million for fiscal year 2022, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. CBP uploaded […]
(Yle) Relatives of Finnish children living in the Al-Hol displacement camp in northern Syria are investigating the possibility of receiving compensation from the Finnish government. The move comes after the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) last week issued a severe reprimand to […]
(AAP) Nineteen jailed terrorists are due for release from custody in Australia in the next five years. The latest annual report by the Australian Federal Police noted there were 55 people serving jail time for terrorism offences. The AFP monitors what are […]
(BBC) A man accused of sharing Islamic State videos on social media has appeared in court. Mohammed Afzal, 18, allegedly shared material showing an execution and fighters in combat on Instagram between March and September. He is also accused of collecting instructions […]
(ABC-Australia) A 15-year-old Adelaide schoolboy will confess to possessing “extremely depraved” extremist material and coaching others online about how to make bombs, a court has heard. Prosecutors have asked the South Australian Youth Court to sentence the boy, who cannot be named […]
(AFP) A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadist gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in France eight years ago was given a life sentence after his appeal trial, a judicial source said Thursday. Ali […]
(AFP) France has repatriated 40 children and 15 women from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. It marked the largest such repatriation in three months and came a week after a […]
(Radio NZ) The Christchurch mosque shooter’s designation as a terrorist entity would be less likely to be revoked or automatically expire under proposed new law changes. Removal of the designation would allow people to legally provide him with support, including funding. As […]
(Arab News) A Muslim teenager in France has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison over her association with and support for the killer of schoolteacher Samuel Paty. Paty was stabbed to death in a Paris suburb after showing […]
(Press Release) A man convicted for a second time for posting a Daesh propaganda video on social media has been jailed, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Sabbir Miah, 29 (06.02.93) of east London, posted the video — which […]
(Rolling Stone) Federal prosecutors say a translator hired by the U.S. to work in Afghanistan lied about his contacts with recruiters for the terrorist group behind a notorious bombing that killed 13 American troops in August 2021. In a federal criminal complaint […]
(Courthouse News) Europe’s top rights court heard arguments on Tuesday over whether a 13-month house arrest order imposed on a French man for alleged extremist views violated his human rights. Lawyers for David Pagerie argued before the European Court of Human Rights […]
(Breitbart) French authorities have arrested a beekeeper recently expelled from Malaysia where he was allegedly using profits from honey sales to finance terror groups in Syria. The 42-year-old, nicknamed “Abu Bee,” was arrested on October 11 by officials from the French anti-terrorist […]
(Sky News) A drill rapping alleged terrorist threatened to bring “blood, terror and torment” when his girlfriend told her she was splitting up with him, a court has heard. Al Arfat Hassan, 19, had a series of arguments with a girl he […]
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