(National-UAE) Two British women who had their request for release denied by the UK government are facing indefinite detention in “appalling” conditions at a Syrian camp, the High Court has been told. The two mothers, who can only be identified as C3 […]
(Reuters) The trial of six men accused of assisting a jihadist who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna two years ago opened on Tuesday, as lawyers for the men denied they knew what the gunman was planning. The 20-year-old attacker, […]
(Courthouse News) A Canadian man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for helping six U.S. and Canadian citizens, including four of his cousins, travel to Syria and join the Islamic State group. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 37, of Edmonton, Alberta, had […]
(Radio France) As ceremonies continue on Monday commemorating the second anniversary of the death of secondary schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the French daily newspapers look back on a weekend of memorial events marked by sadness and dignity. Samuel Paty, teacher of history and […]
(Daily Telegraph) A convicted terrorist who threatened to behead a cop and once declared he was “at war” with Australia will walk free from a NSW prison this week, five years after he was jailed for an Islamic State-inspired knife attack in […]
(Washington Post) Saadiq Long was only allowed to visit his mother after FBI agents questioned her. He was strip-searched at an airport in Amsterdam and arrested when visiting Turkey. He was banned from two Persian Gulf states and fired from a trucking […]
(Globe and Mail) Canada’s spy agency informed British intelligence within 48 hours of learning, in 2015, that an operative had smuggled three British schoolgirls into Syria to join the Islamic State, two sources say. Scotland Yard was frantically searching for the missing […]
(Arab News) A British woman has been repatriated from a Syrian detention camp, becoming the first detained adult to return to the UK since the defeat of Daesh. The Foreign Office said that policy towards others still in Syria was unchanged, but […]
(Yle) The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has reacted to Wednesday’s ruling against Finland by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The committee declared that Finland had violated the rights of Finnish children in northern Syria by not repatriating them […]
(Breitbart) A teacher in a French high school was subjected to death threats after discussing freedom of expression and cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, leading to the arrest of a student and her uncle, in a case redolent of the death […]
(Arab News) Ministers in the UK government are planning to expand the country’s treason laws to prosecute people who aid a state or organization in war against Britain. The move looks to target Islamists who traveled to Syria to join Daesh during […]
(NY Post) Tania Joya, who was married to John Georgelas, once known as the highest-ranking American in ISIS, does not want to be blamed for her ex-husband’s misdeeds. “My crime was being an idiot and getting married too young and joining a […]
(Yle) Finland’s failure to repatriate Finnish children living in Syrian camps was a violation of children’s rights, according to a decision by the UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) published on Wednesday. The committee said its decision was based on a case filed […]
(Globe and Mail) An informant working for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who smuggled three British schoolgirls into Syria for the Islamic State in 2015, breached the spy service’s rules that prohibit paid recruits from engaging in illegal activities including human trafficking. […]
(National-UAE) A woman whose son was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing on Tuesday voiced an evocative “mother-to-mother” message for Prime Minister Liz Truss, as she continues to battle for a change of law five years on. Figen Murray said the killing […]
(AP) A judge began questioning Tuesday a few of the hundreds of prospective jurors summoned for the trial of a man charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path in a terror attack five years ago. Sayfullo Saipov, […]
(AP) Former French President François Hollande told a special terrorism court on Monday that the man who drove a truck into a crowded beachfront in Nice on Bastille Day six years ago, killing 86 people, was a terrorist who had gone undetected […]
(VRT) Six years after the events the Brussels attacks have claimed a further victim. Shanti De Corte, aged 23, underwent euthanasia, because of the insufferable mental pain she was in. At the time the bombs exploded at Brussels Airport Shanti was standing […]
(AFP) The trial for the 2016 Brussels attacks will resume on November 30, a Belgian court said on Friday, after being delayed to replace controversial glass boxes intended for the accused, including French jihadist Salah Abdeslam. Defence lawyers had argued that they […]
(Brussels Times) The family of one of the victims of the 2016 Brussels Airport attacks has reacted with shock to a report on “forgotten” victims, broadcast on Wednesday evening on RTBF. The reaction came from relatives of a 23-year-old woman from Kontich […]
(Brussels Times) The trial of the March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels will start again on 14 November after it was put on hold due to concerns about the defendants’ conditions during the trial. The accused were meant to sit in glass […]
(AFP) Germany on Wednesday said it had resolved “almost all known cases” of its citizens stuck in Syrian jihadist camps, after announcing the repatriation of 12 people. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock released a statement announcing that seven children and four women returned […]
(BBC) The Charity Commission has launched a probe into a Brighton mosque after a former trustee was jailed for encouraging terrorism. The body has also appointed an interim manager at the Brighton Mosque and Muslim Community Centre. Abubaker Deghayes had called for […]
(VRT) The court of first instance in Brussels has thrown out a request to stop Belgium from handing over the convicted Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi to Tehran saying the request is unfounded in law. The decision means that in principle the Belgian […]
(AFP) Moroccan and Spanish police have dismantled a jihadist cell suspected of links to the Islamic State group, officials said Tuesday. The operation led to the arrest of 11 people in raids on Tuesday morning: nine in the Spanish enclave of Melilla […]
(RTÉ) Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith has begun an appeal against the severity of her 15-month jail sentence for membership of the Islamic State terrorist organisation. Senior counsel Michael O’ Higgins submitted that the sentence was “too high” and that Smith was […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Deradicalisation experts have backed the Albanese government’s plan to rescue dozens of Australian relatives of former Islamic State fighters from Syria, even as the Coalition said it feared the repatriation effort would put Australian lives at risk. About 20 […]
(BBC) A man who phoned 999 and made a grenade threat while citing the Islamic State group has received a community order. Amarik Gangar, 29, of Whitehall Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, made a number of calls to emergency services on the morning of […]
(AP) The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear two cases seeking to hold social media companies financially responsible for terrorist attacks. The cases are seen as an important test of the federal law that generally makes internet companies exempt from liability […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia is preparing to overturn its policy of more than three years and launch a mission to repatriate dozens of women and children, the family members of former Islamic State fighters who have been languishing for years in squalid […]
(Radio France) In the first week of witness testimony, the Paris special criminal court was shaken by the emotion of a family mourning the loss of 13-year-old Laura, one of the 86 victims killed in the 2016 Nice truck attack. Laura’s twin […]
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(Globe and Mail) The most senior intelligence officer in charge of covert operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service went to Ankara in March, 2015, to persuade Turkish authorities to stay silent about the agency’s recruitment of a Syrian human smuggler who […]
(NCA NewsWire) Lawyers for Mustafa Dirani have asked a jury to put his “extreme beliefs” aside in judging if he was part of a terrorist conspiracy that led to police accountant Curtis Cheng’s death. Mr Cheng was gunned down outside the Parramatta […]
(Dutch News) The Netherlands is working on plans to bring back 12 jihadi brides and 29 children from camps in northern Syria, RTL news reported on Wednesday. Three ministries — justice, foreign affairs and defence — have been working on the plans […]
(AFP) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had charged a German woman with war crimes and abetting genocide with the Islamic State group in Syria by “enslaving” a Yazidi woman. The authorities brought the charges, which also included crimes against humanity and […]
(Arab News) Daesh “Beatle” El Shafee El-Sheikh has avoided serving prison time in a US supermax prison after being moved to a lesser penitentiary following conviction, the Mirror reported. The terrorist, who grew up in Britain and had his citizenship stripped in […]
(Politico) Belgium must pay compensation of around €100,000 to convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi for the damage he suffered by being extradited to the U.S., a Brussels appeals court ruled Tuesday. The court also ruled that the Belgian government should ask the American […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man accused of conspiring with others in the lead-up to the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng faced trial before the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday. Mustafa Dirani is alleged to have been one of those who assisted 15-year-old […]
(BBC) Up to half of the claims for criminal injury compensation made to the government following the Manchester Arena terror attack have been rejected. From 741 applications resolved by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), 331 did not result in compensation being […]
(AP) Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting during the Norwegian capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival, police said Monday. The total number of suspects is now at four. A 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran was arrested […]
(Radio France) This week, the Nice terror trial has started hearing the testimonies of the civil plaintiffs, those who were bereaved or injured or traumatised when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a truck into the crowd celebrating Bastille Day in 2016, killing 86 people, […]
(AFP) Norwegian police said on Friday they had issued an international arrest warrant for a second suspect over a shooting in June that killed two people near a gay bar in central Oslo. Police initially told a press conference they were seeking, […]
(AFP) The trial for the 2016 Brussels attacks, due to start next month, has been delayed for several weeks to replace controversial glass boxes intended for the accused, the court said Friday. The court of assizes said an October 10 session to […]
(Press Release) A man has been charged with terrorism offences, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Ismail Kissa, 23 (01.04.99), of east London, was charged on Thursday, 22 September, with 13 counts of dissemination of a terrorist publication (contrary […]
(AP) A teenager accused of planning an Islamist-motivated attack in Germany was arrested Thursday, the federal prosecutor’s office said. The dual German-Kosovar citizen detained in the western town of Iserlohn allegedly was under the influence of an Islamic State group follower who […]
(NY Post) A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for stabbing an NYPD cop in the neck and shooting two other officers in an ambush during the 2020 George Floyd protests, authorities said. Former Flatbush resident Dzenan Camovic, […]
(NCA NewsWire) The jury has been discharged in the trial of a Sydney man accused of playing a role in the terrorist plot which resulted in the shooting of police employee Curtis Cheng. Mustafa Dirani was set to stand trial in the […]
(Fox) Border Patrol stopped a dozen individuals whose names are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) in August, bringing the total for the fiscal year to a number that is triple the previous five fiscal years combined — as agents deal […]
(CoinDesk) French authorities finalized prison sentences for two men who were arrested on charges of funding terrorism in Syria via cryptocurrencies, multiple local media outlets reported Friday. The two men, Franco-Algerian Sami Allem and Franco-Moroccan Abderrahman Cheikh, were sentenced in a Paris […]
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