(Global News) A Toronto man violated two Canadian anti-terrorism laws when he travelled to Syria and joined an ISIS sniper team, the RCMP alleged in a top secret document unsealed by the Ontario court. In the document, the RCMP told a judge […]
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(AAP) A South Australian woman convicted of taking steps to join the terror group Islamic State will be subject to an ongoing control order which limits her movements and activities. The Federal Court on Wednesday ruled an interim order previously imposed on […]
(AP) A Texas man convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State group was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in federal prison after the government appealed his previous sentence, saying it was too lenient. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Eskridge in […]
(Arab News) The Saudi Arabian embassy in the United States has denied in a post on Twitter that a “potential terrorist” recently arrested by US authorities is a Saudi citizen. This comes after American authorities falsely claimed that a suspect arrested in […]
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(Courthouse News) The D.C. Circuit gave a Muslim family a second chance Tuesday in their lawsuit claiming they were wrongly placed on the federal terrorist watch list and subjected to unconstitutional searches on a religious trip. Mohammed Jibril, a U.S. citizen of […]
(AFP) Poland’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan man who had been acquitted of being an accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris. Prosecutors had appealed against the acquittal and had requested a six-and-a-half-year […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist has been jailed for 16 months over his cryptocurrency trading on the dark web. Khuram Iqbal, 29, from Cardiff, was originally jailed in 2014 for three years and three months for disseminating terrorist publications and possessing terrorist information. […]
(BBC) A man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of MP Sir David Amess in an alleged terror attack. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, from Kentish Town, north London, appeared at the Old Bailey to deny murdering the Conservative politician on 15 […]
(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A man who came to Kentucky as a refugee has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organization. Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 31, has dual U.S. and Bosnian citizenship and lived in Bowling Green, according to a news […]
(AFP) A Dane with dual nationality was on Monday charged with threatening to carry out attacks, inciting acts of terror and defending deadly attacks in France last year, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old man’s posts on Twitter included a defence of two attacks […]
(Fox) A “potential terrorist” with links to a number of “Yemeni subjects of interest” was captured in Arizona late last week after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol officials announced Monday. The 21-year-old man was apprehended Thursday night entering the […]
(National-UAE) Jailed ISIS fighters in Europe may have been radicalised further in prison by the time they are released, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has said. Thomas Haldenwang sounded the alarm over extremists due to be released in 2022 after […]
(Politico) Photos of beheadings, extremist propaganda and violent hate speech related to Islamic State and the Taliban were shared for months within Facebook groups over the past year despite the social networking giant’s claims it had increased efforts to remove such content. […]
(Deutsche Welle) The bells of Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Breitscheidplatz will ring 13 times this Sunday at exactly 8:02 p.m., once for each of the victims of the 2016 terror attack at a nearby Christmas market. The time marks the […]
(Radio France) In the final week of hearings before the winter break, the special criminal court in Paris heard from the relatives of some of the dead terrorists involved in the November 2015 attacks. A senior police investigator, meanwhile, warned that similar […]
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(Radio France) Patrick Calvar spent 25 years of his policing career fighting terrorism. He was head of the French Interior Security Division between 2012 and 2017. On Friday, he told the special criminal court trying those suspected of complicity in the November […]
(Times of San Diego) A former San Diego resident pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges for providing money and other resources to support terrorist activities in Syria. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi admitted in San Diego federal court to wiring funds to people for […]
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(Radio France) Only two of the three witnesses called on Thursday actually gave evidence. Both were associates of the Abdeslam brothers at their café in Brussels. Both spoke by videolink from the federal police building in the Belgian capital. Neither had much […]
(FrontPage) Orlando, Florida-based Democrat operative and Rashida [Tlaib staffer] Rasha Mubarak has a soft spot for bloodthirsty terrorists. She uses her claim of “Palestinian heritage” to make common cause and to glorify them, justifying suicide bombings and aiming rockets at Jewish civilian […]
(CNS) During Tuesday night’s sometimes combative House debate over a bill to create a special envoy on “Islamophobia,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) was called out after accusing the bill’s author of being anti-Semitic and of being “affiliated with” terrorist groups. Perry did […]
(BBC) A woman convicted of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group says she “regrets everything” about it. Tareena Shakil, from Birmingham, was jailed in 2016 when she returned to the UK after three months with IS. The 32-year-old said […]
(BBC) Greater Manchester Police has admitted it made errors on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing and in its planning for a terrorist attack. But it said “catastrophic failures” by an incident commander in the early stages of the police response […]
(Luxembourg Times) Two Islamic State supporters from Luxembourg were sentenced on Thursday to a combined total of more than five years in prison for spreading propaganda by the terrorist organisation, in the first such trial in the Grand Duchy. The public prosecutor’s […]
(Radio France) This has been the week of the Clain family at the Paris attacks trial. On Tuesday, a police witness described the careers of Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, directors of the IS propaganda effort, both presumed dead in Syria. On Wednesday, […]
(BBC) North West Ambulance Service’s response to the Manchester Arena attack was “inadequate,” an inquiry has been told. Only one paramedic was at the bomb scene for the first 45 minutes and many victims were helped by police officers, first aiders and […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was dominated by a police report on the Clain family of jihadist extremists. The court also heard from the father of a dead terrorist, another man mystified by the transformation of … his […]
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(BBC) Police “abjectly failed” to co-ordinate the emergency response on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry has heard. Families of those killed said Greater Manchester Police (GMP) had tried “to blame others” for its mistakes. The public inquiry into […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge Monday refused to suppress texts and statements made to federal agents by an accused Islamic State fighter from Dearborn captured on a Syrian battlefield three years ago, dealing a setback to the defense of a rare foreign fighter […]
(BBC) Salman Abedi punching a female student after a row about her wearing a short skirt could have been a red flag to his radicalisation, an inquiry has heard. Abedi, who killed 22 people in the Manchester Arena bombing, hit the girl […]
(BBC) A defendant in a terrorism trial has been taken to hospital and placed in an induced coma with Covid-19, a court has heard. The trial of Asad Bhatti started at the Old Bailey last week. The 48-year-old financial analyst from Redhill, […]
(Radio France) There was another shift in the atmosphere at the special criminal court in Paris this week. The televised evidence from anonymous Belgian police investigators came to an end, and real witnesses once again appeared at the bar. They were no […]
(Radio France) There is a problem. Now that the families of the deceased terrorists and other accused are giving evidence at the Paris attacks trial, the court is faced with the emotional dilemma of fathers, brothers, sisters who must condemn the barbarous […]
(Kathimerini) A 39-year-old Iraqi who was arrested in central Athens on Tuesday on migrant trafficking charges is on a list of Islamic terrorism suspects, state officials have confirmed to Kathimerini. Mohammed T. was arrested with an Egyptian, nicknamed “Abu George,” in an […]
(Global News) A Toronto man known as the voice of ISIS pleaded guilty to terrorism on Friday, admitting in a U.S. court he executed two Syrian soldiers. Mohammed Khalifa faces a possible life sentence after pleading guilty to providing material resources to […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) suspects former Hofstadgroep member Samir A. of asking terrorist organization ISIS for explosives or weapons for an attack in the Netherlands in 2017. That became clear in the court of Rotterdam on Friday. The 35-year-old […]
(Deutsche Welle) German police revealed on Friday that they prevented a planned Islamist attack in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer. Andy Grote, top security official for the city, which like the cities of Berlin and Bremen is a state […]
(Radio France) At the Paris terror trial, the Belgian police on Thursday finally came to the end of this phase of their evidence, leaving the bar to [family] members of the dead terrorists, and other accused who are prepared to testify. The […]
(Daily Telegraph) Australia’s most dangerous terrorist, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, will appear in court on Thursday, as authorities review the continuing detention order which is keeping him in jail despite him completing his 15-year jail term. The automatic review of his order, the […]
(ITV) A “dangerous” man who was found to have a “colossal” amount of extremist propaganda on his computer and phone has been jailed for terrorism offences. Counter-terrorism police believe the material owned by Wissam Tariq Mahmoud Ziad, which supported extremist group Daesh […]
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(Radio France) Wednesday’s session of the Paris terror trial was devoted to Belgian police evidence on the backgrounds of Abdellah Chouaa and Ali Oulkadi, two of the accused who are not in police custody and who sit near, but not inside, the […]
(BBC) Hashem Abedi, who was jailed for his part in the Manchester Arena attack, was probably “more influential” than the bomber, an inquiry has heard. Abedi, who is serving a life sentence, helped organise the attack his brother Salman carried out in […]
(AFP) The trial of 10 men accused of involvement in bombing attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people in 2016 will begin in October next year, a Belgian court said Wednesday. Six of the suspects, including French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are already on […]
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