(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 […]
(AFP) Survivors of the November 2015 Paris attacks will testify at a historic trial from Tuesday, reliving the most traumatic events of their lives as they try to put the horror into words. One by one over the coming weeks, 300 survivors […]
(Helsinki Times) According to several sources, Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised a distance learning programme for Finnish children being held in Syria’s al-Hol camp without the knowledge of Kurdish authorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with other ministries and […]
(Breitbart) A 49-year-old Islamic State woman has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of taking part in serious war crimes in Syria, including forcing her own son to become a child soldier. The alleged crimes … are said to have taken place […]
(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was entirely devoted to police and expert evidence. Much of what we heard and saw was difficult for the families of […]
(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in Paris came to an end with three very different reports from expert witnesses. The themes were DNA, explosions and Islamic […]
(Radio France) The eleventh day of the Paris court hearing into the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 was devoted to the medical machinery which handled the bodies of the victims, and the frequently inadequate […]
(Brussels Times) The bank accounts of 295 terrorists are currently frozen in Belgium in an effort to prevent them from (aiding in) committing an attack. During 2021, 21 measures were taken to freeze assets, based on figures from the Coordination Office for […]
(Local) Campaign movement Repatriate the Children (RTC) plans to sue the Danish state for its failure to evacuate five children from Syrian detention camps. The organisation is to sue Denmark on behalf of the five children, who have Danish citizenship but have […]
(Global News) Six months after Kevin Omar Mohamed‘s prison sentence for terrorism came to an end, the RCMP’s Toronto O-INSET national security team decided to check up on him. What they found set off alarms. Not only was he violating his probation […]
(NL Times) Nine men were arrested in Eindhoven on Thursday under suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act, and training to perpetrate the crime. The nine suspects allegedly sympathize with the jihadist principles of ISIS, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said […]
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(JNS) A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Thursday that calls on the European Union to fully designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The legislation, introduced by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), seeks to encourage the 27-nation […]
(NZ Herald) A teenager accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims has been granted name suppression after a lawyer argued the young man had a chance of being deradicalised. The 19-year-old Auckland man first appeared in the North Shore District Court on September […]
(Radio France) At a criminal trial centred on the violent deaths of 130 people, there are no good days. But there are less bad ones. On Wednesday, after nine hearings devoted to the catalogue of cowardice and horror, heroism finally had its […]
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(Local) A Danish woman with dual nationality is to be evacuated along with her children from a detention camp in Syria, in an exception to normal government policy. Immigration minister Mattias Tesfaye has defended the government’s decision to evacuate a woman and […]
(Kathimerini) The Council of Appeals judges in Thessaloniki on Wednesday approved the extradition of a Moroccan man to his country, where he is wanted on terrorism charges. The man, aged 28, had been sought on an international warrant issued by Moroccan authorities […]
(AFP) A French appeal court on Tuesday increased a jihadist’s sentence for his senior role with the Islamic State group in Syria from 30 years to life in prison. Frenchman Tyler Vilus had already been convicted for his work with the IS […]
(AFP) A Spanish court on Tuesday granted parole to one of the men convicted for his role in the 2017 attacks in Catalonia that claimed 16 lives. The special court responsible for terrorism cases ordered the conditional release of Said Ben Iazza, […]
(AFP) Spain’s top criminal court has opened a probe after a car ploughed into a bar terrace, killing a diner, to establish whether the driver was motivated by “terrorism,” judicial sources said Tuesday. The incident, which was initially thought to be an […]
(Breitbart) A Danish court has sentenced 29-year-old Adam Touhou to six years in prison and to be stripped of his citizenship followed by deportation for recruiting for the Islamic State terror group. Touhou began speaking with Hafed Matoussi on Facebook in 2013 about […]
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