(AFP) A French policeman was attacked by a man with a knife claiming to act “in the name of the prophet” on Monday but was unharmed, the interior minister and police sources said. The sources had previously indicated that their colleague had […]
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(Deutsche Welle) The man who stabbed four people on a train in the southern state of Bavaria on Saturday did so “indiscriminately,” police said during a press conference Sunday presenting the first results of their investigation into the attack. Prosecutor Gerhard Neuhof said […]
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(Radio France) The past week of the Paris attacks trial has been devoted to an examination of the family backgrounds and personalities of the men accused of involvement in the 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. There have been surprises. […]
Since 9/11, the FBI has frequently used “sting” operations to capture would-be terrorists before they commit violence. Some of these efforts have been successful from the FBI’s point of view, meaning that the FBI was able to lure suspects into criminal activity […]
(Radio France) Friday was the 40th day of hearings in the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 Paris attacks which cost the lives of 131 people. The investigation into the personalities of the final four accused was completed, […]
(Deutsche Welle) German Federal Police on Saturday said there was a knife attack on a train in the southern German state of Bavaria, resulting in several injuries. The train was traveling near Neumarkt between the cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the […]
(BBC) A survivor of the 2017 Westminster Bridge attack is using voice recordings of terror victims as a way of trying to prevent people from being radicalised. Travis Frain, of Darwen in Lancashire, set up the Resilience in Unity Project while working […]
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(Kathimerini) The investigation into the case of the 34-year-old Iraqi man arrested on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State last month … has been stepped up as he has named other individuals who were involved in ISIS and who […]
(BBC) A man accused of fatally stabbing Southend West MP Sir David Amess is expected to enter pleas to the charges next month ahead of a trial in March. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, is charged with the murder of the Conservative politician […]
(Radio France) The parade of personalities continues at the special criminal court in Paris, with four more suspects … Adel [Haddadi], Mohammed [Amri], Muhammed Usman and Osama Krayem … describing their family and personal backgrounds in Algeria, Belgium, Pakistan and Sweden. For […]
(Euronews) The mother of one of the 2015 Bataclan concert hall attackers is facing trial in Paris, accused of “financing terrorism.” Fatima Hajji, 53, is charged with sending €13,000 to her son and his partner while they were in Iraq and Syria, […]
(Al-Arabiya) US lawmakers have reintroduced a bill calling on the State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. “It’s high time we join our allies in the Arab world in formally recognizing the Muslim Brotherhood for what they truly […]
(Radio France) Mohamed Abrini, Yassine [Atar], Hamza Attou, Mohamed Bakkali, Sofien Ayari and Abdellah Chouaa … those accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris attacks continue to give evidence about their personal backgrounds, a litany of small-scale crime and human tragedy. […]
(Dutch News) The government wants to make temporary rules giving ministers the right to remove Dutch nationality from people suspected of terrorism offences permanent, a move which has been criticised by both MPs and regulators. In addition, ministers want to stop the […]
(ABC-Australia) A Victorian schoolboy who had a “fixation” with the so-called Islamic State and allegedly threatened to hurt female students at his school has been charged with terror offences. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named, was arrested early last month. He was […]
(Euractiv) 34% of Austrians believe there is a high risk the country could be hit by another terrorist attack a year after the Islamist terror attack shook Vienna, a poll conducted by the Market Institut has found. Supporters of the right-wing FPÖ and […]
(Radio France) The rhythm and atmosphere at the Paris attacks trial changed dramatically on Tuesday, with the opening of the examination of the personalities of the accused. Since the 14 men before the court testify in alphabetic order, Salah Abdeslam, the sole […]
(AP) The FBI released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents Wednesday about its long effort to explore connections between the Saudi government and the Sept. 11 attacks, revealing the scope of a strenuous but ultimately fruitless investigation whose outcome many question […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) Intelligence officials have travelled to Syria in a secret operation to gather information about the Australian families of Islamic State fighters living in a refugee camp in the country’s north as the federal government weighs up a rescue mission. […]
(AP) The lone survivor of the cell of Islamic State group extremists who attacked Paris in November 2015 came under public questioning Tuesday for the first time in France, describing a close family life and his neighborhood acquaintance with many of the […]
(AP) Federal prosecutors have charged a German woman with membership in two foreign terrorist groups, violating weapons law and committing her son as a fighter to a foreign terrorist group. German federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Stefanie A., whose last name was […]
(AFP) French transport police shot and gravely wounded a man at a Paris railway station who threatened them with a knife while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) in Arabic, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. The man rushed at police just […]
(Deutsche Welle) Vienna marked one year on Tuesday since a deadly terror attack that left four people dead. On November 2, 2020, a sympathizer of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group shot and killed four people in the Austrian capital before he himself was […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man charged with threatening to kill “non-Muslims” faces six new charges of possessing objectionable material. The 19-year-old, who has interim name suppression, also faces two charges of distributing objectionable publications between July and September 2021. He appeared at the […]
(LA Times) A U.S. Army veteran from Reseda was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for plotting to set off a bomb at a Long Beach political rally in a thwarted terrorist attack. U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson rejected prosecutors’ […]
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(BBC) Families of those killed in the Manchester Arena bombing have told MI5 “please don’t let us down” as inquiry evidence starts to be heard in private. Closed hearings, where only the inquiry chairman, legal team and Home Office lawyers will be […]
(Dayton Daily News) A Beavercreek man pleaded guilty Friday to trying to travel overseas to join ISIS-K, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Naser Almadaoji, 22, who was arrested by the FBI at John Glenn International Airport in 2018, pleaded guilty […]
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(CBS) Police in Northern Virginia are on a heightened state of alert as a new law enforcement alert warned of a potential threat against malls and shopping centers located just outside of Washington, D.C. The threat originated with ISIS and is the […]
(Brussels Times) Islamic State (IS) terrorist and former head of Islamic radical group Sharia4Belgium, Hicham Chaib, was sentenced to life in prison in absentia and has been stripped of his Belgian nationality. After one hour of deliberation by the Antwerp Assize Court — […]
(AP) A military jury imposed a sentence of 26 years Friday on a former Maryland man who admitted joining al-Qaida and has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. But under a plea deal, the man could be released as soon […]
(Radio France) The work of the special police units sent to face armed killers is so dangerous that they have their own medical specialists with them during every operation. At Thursday’s session of the Paris attacks trial, two of the doctors who […]
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(AP) A Dutch woman charged seven years ago with raising money for the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab has been extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Farhia Hassan, 38, made an initial appearance Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria after being […]
(BBC) The Manchester Arena bombing inquiry has been adjourned for three weeks of secret hearings. Closed hearings, where only the inquiry chairman, legal team and Home Office lawyers will be present, will start next week at an undisclosed location. Bereaved families, their […]
(Reuters) German anti-terrorism forces on Thursday raided the homes of five young people west of the city of Bonn who were suspected of planning an attack inspired by the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said. None of the five suspects — aged […]
(VOA) Fears the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could reinvigorate terror groups like al-Qaida and Islamic State, and lead to a surge of attempted infiltrations along the southern U.S. border have not been realized, a top counterterrorism official said, dismissing claims to the […]
(Radio France) Everyone knows about the heroism of the specialised BRI and RAID police units, the men who finally confronted the terrorists and saved the hostages at the Bataclan. But the bravery of the 17 men of the Paris Anti-Criminal Brigade (BAC […]
(BBC) An inquest into the death of MP Sir David Amess, who was stabbed to death while meeting constituents, has opened. The Conservative Southend West MP was attacked at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October. He was pronounced dead […]
(NL Times) An Iranian refugee living in Delft was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday. The court in Rotterdam found 42-year-old Eisa S. guilty of plotting and encouraging attacks in Iran carried out by resistance group ASMLA. “Terrorist activities for […]
(National Post) While a key architect of the Toronto 18 terrorism plot to detonate truck bombs in Toronto is pushing for more access to electronics while out of prison, the parole board is worried that requiring him to give his computer passwords […]
(Radio France) One hundred and thirty people were killed on the night of 13 November 2015, or died shortly afterwards from their injuries. But there was one other victim, who escaped physically unhurt, only to take his own life two years after […]
(BBC) Messages between the Manchester Arena bomber and an Islamic State recruiter were held by police for years, but the killer was not identified until months after the attack, an inquiry has heard. The inquiry into the atrocity was told the texts […]
(AFP) Norwegian police said on Wednesday that 24 people were now being treated as victims of a bow and arrow attack earlier this month in which five people were killed. A man rampaged through the town of Kongsberg west of Oslo on […]
(BBC) The authorities would have been led to “the bomb” if they had followed the Manchester Arena attacker on his return from Libya, an inquiry has heard. Giving evidence, a senior MI5 officer agreed if Salman Abedi had been trailed when he […]
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