(Radio NZ) The government is looking into whether it will change the law to make it possible to send would-be terrorists, or refugees who have been serious offenders, back to their home countries. And former justice minister Andrew Little has defended how […]
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(Radio France) This week’s hearings were the last chance for the 14 men accused in connection with the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks to give their version of events. Some spoke, some chose the silence to which they are unconditionally entitled under […]
(AFP) The sole surviving member of the jihadist team that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks apologised on Friday to the victims at the end of his trial testimony. The comments marked a dramatic end to three days of testimony by […]
(AFP) Fourteen people charged as accomplices to jihadists who carried out deadly bomb and gun attacks in Paris in 2015 will go on trial in Belgium from Tuesday. Proceedings will take place under high security in NATO’s former headquarters and are expected […]
(AFP) A Frenchman and a Moroccan received heavy prison terms on appeal Friday for an attack plot that was foiled after an intelligence agent posing as a jihadist infiltrated their cyber network. Yassine Bousseria, 42, was sentenced to 24 years in prison […]
(Radio France) For the second day at the Paris attacks trial, evidence from surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam dominated proceedings. Less sure of himself on Thursday, in the face of relentless questioning, Abdeslam finally asked for forgiveness and a second chance. That provoked […]
(Breitbart) A 21-year-old who was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a coworker has been revealed to be a former Islamic State terrorist who managed to obtain a security job at Austria’s largest Chinese coronavirus vaccination site. The 21-year-old was arrested in January […]
(Radio France) Surviving Paris attacks terrorist Salah Abdeslam on Wednesday surprised the special criminal court in Paris by agreeing to answer questions about his specific mission on 13 November 2015. While zones of doubt and mystery remain, Abdeslam did provide new information […]
(AP) A jury convicted a British national Thursday for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded. In convicting […]
(National-UAE) Dutch ISIS recruits held pivotal roles in the terrorist group — not the minor roles they have claimed — and they should be held fully accountable for their crimes, a report from the Counter [Extremism] Project think tank says. Claims that […]
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(AFP) The last surviving suspected assailant in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks told a court Wednesday that he changed his mind about going through with the killings at the last moment. “The objective I was given was to go to a cafe […]
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with the interrogation of Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou, the two men who admit driving to Paris on the morning after the 13 November 2015 killings to bring surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam back […]
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(AP) A German woman who allegedly abused a Yazidi slave while in Islamic State-held territory in Syria has been charged with crimes against humanity and other offenses, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The woman, identified only as Jalda A. in keeping with German […]
(AFP) Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against an alleged member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles.” El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, declined the opportunity to testify in his own defense at his trial in a federal court in […]
(Euractiv) Danish authorities have started planning the evacuation of five Danish children of ISIS fighters in the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj camp in Syria but their mothers will be left behind, Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said. The decision comes after a new medical report […]
(BBC) A former Islamic State group member turned cooperating witness has told a US court that an ex-jihadist on federal trial was clearly “more important” than other fighters. Omer Kuzu, 26, testified on Monday that he met El Shafee Elsheikh in Syria […]
(BBC) Ali Harbi Ali was born in Southwark, south London, growing up in Croydon. A British national of Somali heritage, he became radicalised by the war in Syria and ultimately decided to kill an MP. He booked an appointment for 15 October, […]
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(AFP) A young Yazidi woman testified on Monday that American aid worker Kayla Mueller told her she was raped by former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and threatened with death if she tried to escape. Lia Mulla, who was captured by […]
(Radio NZ) The Security Intelligence Service was calling the LynnMall knife attacker a terrorist for years, at the same time as courts were hearing he was a high, medium or even low-risk threat. Ahamed Aathill Samsudeen stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket […]
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(AFP) Former hostages taking the witness stand at the trial of their alleged Islamic State group captor have described their brutal treatment in chilling detail. Eight former IS hostages have testified so far at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of […]
(Radio France) On Friday the Paris special criminal court, where those suspected of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks are being tried, heard evidence from a remarkable woman who saved many lives, at the cost of her own identity. A blurred […]
(WBAL) The Transportation Security Administration has confirmed for the first time that the controversial screening of some rail passengers’ past travel records against a terrorist watchlist “has already occurred,” amid calls from Congress for greater oversight and demands from civil liberties advocates […]
(Radio France) Two witnesses appeared on Thursday at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris. Both the Belgian investigating […]
(BBC) Firefighters in Manchester and London have agreed to assist police in future marauding terrorist attacks (MTA). Crews usually wait for police to secure a site but they will be trained to respond to MTAs — where attackers move through a location […]
(AFP) A former Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker held for three months in Syria in 2014 by the Islamic State group testified on Thursday to the particularly brutal treatment meted out to American and British hostages. Frida Saide, a Swede, revealed details […]
(WBAL) The Council on American-Islamic Relations vowed on Thursday to sue America’s largest passenger rail network if Amtrak begins screening its travelers against the government’s terrorist watchlist — a program first revealed by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit’s reporting. “If Amtrak […]
(AP) A second defendant is invoking the right to a speedy trial in the 2018 raid on a squalid family compound in northern New Mexico that uncovered the remains of a 3-year-old boy and led to charges of kidnapping, firearms and terrorism […]
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(BBC) A terror suspect accused of murdering Sir David Amess told jurors he decided to kill him over his vote for airstrikes on Syria. The Southend West MP was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October […]
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(Radio NZ) Government agencies which battled to detain and deport the LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen are remaining silent on why they did not agree to his request to lose New Zealand residence. Officials were moving to cancel Samsudeen’s refugee status and detain […]
(AFP) A French journalist held by the Islamic State in Syria testified Wednesday that he and other hostages were forced by their captors to sing a depraved parody of the Eagles song “Hotel California” called “Hotel Osama.” “It was terrifying for us, […]
(WBAL) Khalid Turaani knows what it’s like to be on a secret government watchlist. He learned about his status on it, not from an official letter or communication, but when TSA officers stopped him from flying one day in 2017. “They told […]
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(Connexion) The family of Samuel Paty, the French school teacher murdered by a jihadist in October 2020, is suing the ministries of education and interior for “non-assistance of a person in danger” and “non-prevention of a crime.” They accuse the intelligence services […]
(NY Daily News) A former pot-smoking Trump backer who became a full-fledged ISIS crusader was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday after expressing hope that “jihad will erupt on the American homeland.” Bernard Augustine, 25, also tore into the federal prosecutors […]
(Radio France) After last week’s striking reconstitution in sounds and images of the Bataclan massacre, the Paris special criminal court has moved on to consider the post-attack activities of the sole surviving perpetrator and his alleged accomplices. This week’s hearings have focused […]
(Reuters) A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said federal agencies properly withheld documents related to how they vet applicants for immigration benefits with the aim of uncovering possible terrorist ties, reversing a judge who ordered their disclosure. A 2nd U.S. Circuit Court […]
(AP) German investigators on Wednesday arrested a Syrian man accused of war crimes for allegedly torturing captives while he was with the Islamic State group in Syria in 2014. Federal prosecutors said the man, identified only as Raed E. in line with […]
(ABC) Already missing their flight to Canada, Zainab Merchant held her then-6-month-old baby inside a cold room in an airport in September of 2016 while she waited for her husband’s screening to be over after her family was detained for a random […]
(AP) A judge has certified the Iraqi government’s extradition request for a Phoenix driving school owner on charges that he participated in the killings of two police officers 15 years ago in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as the leader of an […]
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