(AAP) A South Australian woman jailed for taking steps to join the terror group Islamic State has not fully acknowledged her offending and remains a “vulnerable person, susceptible to adverse and destructive influences,” a court has ruled. In December, the Federal Court […]
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(Yle) Moroccan national Abderrahman Bouanane, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the Turku terrorist attack in 2017, will face three charges of assaulting guards in Turku Prison. The charges were filed with the District Court of Southwest Finland earlier this month, […]
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(KTVT) New revelations Tuesday night about how a terrorist spent his time in DFW before he held four members of a Colleyville synagogue hostage at gunpoint until they escaped after an 11-hour ordeal. The staff at the Islamic Center of Irving said […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders clashed with multiple parties in a parliamentary debate on Tuesday, including about VVD adviser Soumaya Sahla and a tweet in which he suggested that Dilan Yeşilgöz’s appointment as justice minister will jeopardize his security. Soumaya Sahla […]
(BBC) A police force which responded to the Manchester Arena bombing was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training at the time, the inquiry into the attack has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was […]
(AP) The gunman who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said Tuesday. Malik […]
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(AFP) The trial over the deadly November 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been suspended after a second suspect tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the case told AFP on Monday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, accused of helping prepare the massacres […]
(NCA NewsWire) A woman dubbed the “baby terrorist” is back in police custody after allegedly sending text messages to a relative threatening to kill. Alo-Bridget Namoa, 24, was arrested at her western Sydney home on Sunday night and charged with using a […]
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(Morocco World News) Spain’s National Court has confirmed the decision of the secretary of state for security to expel a woman of Moroccan origin from Spain’s territory, banning her from entering the country for 10 years for her involvement with a jihadist […]
(Free Beacon) The Council on American-Islamic Relations denied any connection between the terror attack at a Texas synagogue and its campaign to free imprisoned terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, one day after a fanatical gunman took Jewish congregants hostage to demand Siddiqui’s release. CAIR […]
(BBC) A doctor has told the Manchester Arena inquiry how he treated casualties at the 2015 Bataclan theatre massacre despite the on-going threat around him. The inquiry into the 2017 bombing is looking into whether embedding doctors with armed police could speed […]
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(Free Beacon) As the hostage situation at a Texas synagogue developed on Saturday, Michigan’s attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel, raised the possibility that white supremacists were behind the attack. Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, about an hour after it had been […]
(CNN) The FBI on Sunday identified Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national, as the man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in an hours-long standoff Saturday before a rescue team entered the building and killed the suspect. An […]
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(Hill) President Biden on Sunday called the hostage situation at a Texas synagogue on Saturday an “act of terror.” “This was an act of terror,” Biden told reporters. “This was an act of terror [that] was not only related to someone who had […]
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(AP) The man who authorities say held hostages inside a Texas synagogue on Saturday demanded the release of a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned nearby on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan. The hostage incident ended Saturday night […]
(IPT) Most Americans may not have heard of Aafia Siddiqui before Saturday, when a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, outside Dallas, and took the rabbi and three congregants hostage. Thankfully, the standoff ended without any hostage being harmed. But […]
(AP) A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers […]
(Radio France) Friday’s hearing at the November 2015 terror trial was devoted to testimony from Adel Haddadi, an Islamic State suspect who was arrested in Austria, and who is accused of having planned to take part in the Paris attacks. Adel Haddadi […]
(BBC) A man arrested during the Manchester Arena bombing investigation is on the run in Libya and wanted by police for his role in a drugs conspiracy. Zuhir Nassrat, 23, was linked to two of the three chemicals used by the Abedi […]
(Radio France) Osama Krayem, one of the accused in the Paris attacks trial, on Thursday refused to make any statement or answer questions on his religious convictions and his engagement with Islamic State in Syria. One witness did speak, glowingly, on his […]
(Swiss Info) Swiss prosecutors have dropped a case against one of two men suspected of participating in the November 2020 terrorist attack in Vienna. The man, who was 24 years old at the time, visited the attacker in Vienna and stayed a […]
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(BBC) A man has gone on trial in London, accused of plotting to kill a Pakistani blogger living in the Netherlands. A court heard that 31-year-old Muhammad Gohir Khan was hired as a “hitman” by figures said to be based in Pakistan. […]
(BBC) There remain “unacceptable delays” in getting specialist paramedics to treat casualties in some major incidents, the Manchester Arena inquiry has heard. The inquiry has heard only three medics went into the scene of the 2017 bombing amid concerns about further attacks. […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s testimony from Mohamed Abrini, who is charged with complicity in the Paris attacks, focused on the suspect’s 2015 journey from Belgium to the Islamic State heartland in Syria, and his return via London, Birmingham, Manchester and Paris. According to […]
(BBC) Policy changes mean the delay in medics getting to the Manchester Arena attack casualties “would not happen now,” the inquiry into the bombing has been told. The Manchester Arena inquiry has heard help was held up after the 2017 bombing because […]
(AP) Attorneys for a woman who left her Alabama home to join the Islamic State terror group plan to continue fighting for her and her young son even though the Supreme Court declined to consider her lawsuit seeking to re-enter the United […]
(BBC) A man who made “terrifying” threats of violence on a train carriage while carrying a knife has been jailed. Mohammed Khan caused “unacceptable panic” on the service, which he boarded in Manchester, during an outburst about 9/11 and the Taliban, police […]
(CBC) A Canadian woman who was held for two years at an ISIS detention camp in Syria is now under investigation for terrorism offences and war crimes. However, her lawyer has suggested RCMP officers are exploiting their powers by both monitoring and investigating the […]
(Radio France) On Tuesday, the Covid-disrupted Paris terror trial resumed with evidence from Mohamed Abrini, one of the accused, on his religious convictions and his decision to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria. Mohamed Abrini is a contradictory individual. He […]
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(AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States. The justices declined without comment […]
(AFP) The main defendant in France’s marathon trial for the November 2015 Paris attacks was back in the dock Tuesday, as the questioning of suspects resumed following a weeks-long Covid delay. Salah Abdeslam is the only survivor among the 10 assailants who […]
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(BBC) The inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack is looking into whether embedding doctors with armed police could speed up future response times. The inquiry has heard many casualties waited more than an hour for treatment after the 22 May 2017 […]
(BBC) The mother of a man killed in the Manchester Arena bombing has said government plans to compel venues to provide security are “a giant leap forward in the right direction.” The proposed Protect Duty will include a requirement for some public […]
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(JNS) Jewish groups in Canada are decrying an Arabic-language magazine and human-rights organization for two separate incidents of anti-Israel activity. B’nai Brith Canada has called for the Canadian government to “dissolve” the not-for-profit corporation “Canadian Defenders for Human Rights” after that group’s […]
(Reuters) The main suspect in the November 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris has recovered from his COVID-19 infection, allowing the trial into the attacks to resume soon, French media reported on Monday. Salah Abdeslam “is in a position […]
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(BBC) Security improvements have been made at Manchester Arena since the terror attack nearly five years ago and are “continually reviewed,” a public inquiry has heard. Arena operators SMG and security firm Showsec were criticised in the first report published by the […]
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