(AP) The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on […]
(AAP) A Sydney man who [was] stopped at the airport on the way to engage in extremist violence is set to be sentenced on Monday. Nowroz Rayed Amin, 30, was on his way to Bangladesh, where he admits he planned to engage […]
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(Reuters) Europe must take the security threats that might arise from migration out of Afghanistan more seriously, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson warned on Friday. “On the terrorist threat from Afghanistan, I must say that my assessment is that the alert […]
(Dutch News) Judges will decide next week if nine young men from Eindhoven should remain in custody while police continue to investigate them for possible terrorist offences. The nine were, according to the public prosecution department, planning to launch a terrorist attack, […]
(Radio France) At the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings of 130 people, survivors of an attack at the Bataclan concert hall on Thursday described the night of horror […]
(Radio France) On Wednesday, at the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, survivors from the Bataclan music venue, where 90 people lost their lives, began to recount their long […]
(Copenhagen Post) Three women and 14 children — who were yesterday evacuated from the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria, where the inmates are primarily the families of slain or captured Islamic State warriors — arrived in Denmark at around 03:00 […]
(BBC) A British woman who joined the Islamic State group with her young children has said UK politicians should “open your minds” to allowing them to return. Nicole Jack and her three daughters are currently being held in a detention camp in […]
(Breitbart) Documents from the Swedish state department reveal that Kurdish authorities wanted Sweden to take back Islamic State women from prison camps as they deemed them too dangerous to remain in Syria. On September 5th, three Islamic State women and their children […]
(AFP) Germany has repatriated eight women who joined the IS terror group and 23 children from northern Syria in the biggest such transfer since 2019, the foreign ministry said. “The children are not responsible for their situation … the mothers will have […]
(AFP) Survivors of the 2015 Islamic State massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Wednesday told the trial being held over a night of bloodshed in the French capital they “played dead” on the ground for hours to avoid being […]
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist groups that murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015, has frequently interrupted proceedings at the trial where, along with 19 co-accused, he faces charges of conspiracy, perpetration or complicity in terrorism. […]
(BBC) An alleged member of the Islamic State group has appeared in court charged with terror offences after he was arrested at Heathrow Airport. Shabazz Suleman, 25, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, is alleged to have performed guard duty and carried out military […]
(AP) Police carried out large-scale raids in 25 German cities Wednesday, after a chance discovery last year put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network alleged to have funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. Officials said the raids, which began in […]
(Hungary Today) Hungary’s counter-terrorism force (TEK) has arrested a Hungarian man associated with the Islamic State terrorist organisation, TEK’s head said on Monday. János Hajdu told public broadcaster M1 the case was related to a Hungarian known as V. Kende who claimed […]
(Kathimerini) An Iraqi asylum-seeker who was arrested in Athens on Monday on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State terror group is to be formally charged by a prosecutor on Tuesday. The 34-year-old was taken into custody in his home […]
(AP) Danish prosecutors said Tuesday that they have charged three people with attempting to carry out acts of terrorism by acquiring bomb-making chemicals and equipment that were to be used for an attack “in an unknown place either in Denmark or abroad.” […]
(Sky News) A man has been charged with terror offences after being arrested at Heathrow Airport, Thames Valley Police said. Shabazz Suleman, who is also accused of being a member of the Islamic State group, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on […]
(AAP) A woman serving a decades-long jail sentence has pleaded guilty to engaging in a terrorist act in prison. Momena Shoma is serving a 42-year prison sentence in Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost women’s prison. Shoma, 28, on Monday faced the Victorian Supreme […]
(Global News) A Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria and flown to the United States to stand trial should have been prosecuted in Canada, a lawyer representing his family said Monday. “If there is evidence against Canadians who are being arbitrarily detained […]
(AP) Greek counterterrorism police on Monday arrested an asylum-seeker in central Athens who is suspected of membership in the Islamic State group, authorities said. A police statement said the 34-year-old man’s arrest followed cooperation with Greece’s EYP intelligence agency and information provided […]
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(Radio France) The court has already received requests to testify from more than 350 civil witnesses. These are the people who were affected by the November 2015 killings, either directly or because family members and friends were killed or injured in the […]
(NL Times) Conversations intercepted by domestic intelligence service AIVD led to the arrests of nine men in Eindhoven on allegations that they planned to carry out a terrorist attack. The men, all Dutch citizens, discussed the possibility of targeting Prime Minister Mark […]
(NL Times) The nine terrorist suspects arrested in Eindhoven one week ago did not have a concrete plan to attack politicians, lawyer of two of the suspect[s] Peter Plasman said. The suspects are alleged to have prepared to target Prime Minister Mark […]
(NL Times) Prime Minister Mark Rutte was the apparent target of a terrorist plot crafted by ISIS sympathizers, which prompted the arrests this week of nine men in Eindhoven. They were also considering attacks on PVV leader Geert Wilders and FvD leader Thierry […]
(Radio France) At the November 2015 terror trial, the first week of witness evidence came to an end with further testimony from those who survived the shooting attacks at the Belle Équipe bar in central Paris. At the trial on Friday, a […]
(Global News) A Canadian who was allegedly “a leading figure” in the ISIS media section has been taken to the United States to face terrorism charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Saturday. The FBI took custody of Mohamed Khalifa from Kurdish forces […]
(BBC) The families of the Manchester Arena attack victims have been told that any mistakes by police or security services will not be kept secret. A public inquiry, which started in September 2020, will shortly examine whether they could have prevented the […]
(Radio France) The evidence from victims and bereaved families continues at the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks. Everyone in the vast courtroom has been affected by the generally quiet dignity of the […]
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(Radio France) If the testimony of those hurt or bereaved in the November 2015 attacks has been generally characterised by tragic dignity, Wednesday’s hearing was marked by an outburst of anger. After a day devoted to those who suffered at the Stade […]
(FrontPage) On September 6th, six Palestinian prisoners being held in an Israeli jail escaped, forcing Israeli authorities to launch a manhunt for them. All have been caught, since. Of the six, five are members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and one is […]
(Breitbart) A Swiss man from the city of St. Gallen is facing trial after allegedly distributing propaganda for the Islamic State terrorist group between February 2018 and October 2019. The 27-year-old man, identified only by his initials A.Z., is set to face […]
(NY Post) A former Bronx Uber driver who was busted by the feds for allegedly trying to join the Taliban in Afghanistan is actually just a “wannabe playboy” who was trying to run off to Thailand to meet up with women there, […]
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(NL Times) The nine terror suspects arrested in Eindhoven last week will remain in pre-trial detention for two weeks longer. The examining magistrate of the court in Rotterdam remanded them into custody on Wednesday. The men, aged between 18 and 31, are said […]
(Global News) A Toronto woman who carried [out an] ISIS-inspired attack at a Canadian Tire store in 2017 has been denied parole and ordered to serve out the remainder of her sentence in prison. A decision released Wednesday by the Parole Board […]
(Baltic Times) The migrant suspected of having had ties with terrorists has been already sent out of Lithuania, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has confirmed. “Yes, that person is definitely no longer in the Republic of Lithuania,” she told ministers on Tuesday. In […]
(Budapest Times) A Hungarian-born man suspected of posting jihadist content on a German online platform has been arrested, a Budapest court said on Monday. Hungary’s anti-terrorism centre (TEK) caught the man in cooperation with the German authorities and proceedings have been launched […]
(AP) It is almost the forgotten attack of Nov. 13, 2015: France’s national stadium was the sole site outside Paris to come under assault that night from Islamic State extremists. The three suicide bombers who struck killed one man out of the […]
(Breitbart) A man who claimed to be a former Islamic State fighter was arrested in Perpignan, France, after threatening to attack several police stations with a Kalashnikov rifle. The suspect had called stations in Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Narbonne, and the Paris […]
(AFP) A court in Denmark jailed a dual Turkish-Danish national for 10 years on Tuesday and stripped him of his citizenship for “planning a terrorist attack.” The 24-year-old — who was not named by the court — will serve his prison sentence […]
(Global News) On Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, a Canadian government delegation crossed the Tigris River into northeast Syria to take custody of a five-year-old orphan. Amira was the only survivor of a Canadian family killed by an airstrike during the fight against […]
(Global News) The families of more than two dozen Canadians held at prisons and camps for ISIS detainees in Syria have filed a case in the Federal Court accusing the government of failing to bring them home. Eleven families, which were not […]
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(NCA NewsWire) A man who admitted to plotting a violent terror attack spoke of “recipes” and “cooking class” in veiled references to making bombs in messages with a fellow extremist. Sydney man Nowroz Amin was asked to explain his past words at […]
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