(BBC) Three officers criticised during the Manchester Arena inquiry will not be investigated by the police watchdog. British Transport Police (BTP) PCs Jessica Bullough, Mark Renshaw and PCSO Lewis Brown were on duty during the 2017 atrocity which killed 22 people. They […]
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(AP) President Joe Biden on Friday directed the declassification of certain documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a supportive gesture to victims’ families who have long sought the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. The order, coming […]
(NZ Herald) A man has been fatally shot by police officers and six shoppers have been injured — including three critically — in horrific scenes at a West Auckland supermarket this afternoon. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was a terrorist attack […]
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(AP) Relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks called Thursday for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the FBI’s handling of evidence from its investigation into the hijackers and their associates, saying certain records are apparently missing or lost. […]
(Portugal Resident) PJ police in Lisbon have arrested two young Iraqi brothers over suspected links to terrorist organisation Daesh (ISIS). The 34- and 32-year-old have been living in Portugal since 2017, say reports, and are integrated within a support programme for refugees. […]
(AP) A British national admitted Thursday evening in a federal courtroom near the nation’s capital that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and eventually behead American hostages. Alexanda [Amon] Kotey, 37, pleaded guilty […]
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(AAP) A radicalised ISIS member had plans to target Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral and the American embassy for terror attacks and “to conquer” a rural town like Orange, a court has been told. Isaac El Matari also spoke of travelling to Afghanistan […]
(AP) One of two British nationals charged with joining the Islamic State group and conspiring to torture and behead American and European hostages in Syria is scheduled to plead guilty to criminal charges. Federal court records show a change of plea hearing […]
(AP) Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he killed a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and later opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers fatally shot him. Police said […]
(AAP) A used car salesman who became radicalised by ISIS so quickly he was prepared to fight and die in Kashmir for the terror group has left a judge concerned whether the Melbourne father is still a risk. Khaled Temssah, 32, has […]
(Reuters) A Brooklyn woman who faces a resentencing for supporting Islamic State but skipped a court hearing because she feared being sent back to prison has been arrested in New Mexico, U.S. prosecutors said. Sinmyah Amera Ceasar, who prosecutors said used the […]
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors arrested a woman on Monday suspected of collecting money for the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group and helping with bank transfers to the Middle East. The suspect, identified only as Denise S., is thought to have been in contact with […]
(JTA) Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib called for Israel to return the body of a woman who was killed while she attempted to kill Israeli soldiers. In a Twitter thread on Saturday, Tlaib, one of Israel’s harshest critics in Congress, slammed Israel for […]
(Hill) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said the chances of more terrorist attacks like the ones on Sept. 11, 2001, “just went through the roof” because of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Graham, during an interview with guest host […]
(AP) As the U.S. rushes to evacuate Americans and allies from the chaos of Afghanistan, a growing number of Republicans are questioning why the U.S. should take in Afghan citizens who worked side by side with Americans, further exacerbating divides within the […]
(Post Millennial) Late Thursday night, following a day which saw the deaths of 13 US service members in a terrorist attack in Kabul, the deadliest day in a decade for US military in Afghanistan, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) posted a photo of […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Wednesday shared a tweet that advertised a fundraiser for an organization with ties to Hamas and the Taliban. Tlaib, who has a long history of anti-Semitic rhetoric, retweeted a post from critical race theorist […]
(Breitbart) A senior member of the Spanish populist party Vox has [warned] of the potential threat from jihadist extremists among Afghan refugees after the Taliban released prisoners across the country. Vox vice president Jorge Buxadé spoke Tuesday on the issue of settling Afghan […]
(AFP) Two Syrians received lengthy jail sentences in Germany on Thursday for their role in an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, a court said. Named only as Khedr A.K., 43, and Sami A.S., 36, the two men were […]
(Politico) European countries should screen Afghan refugees upon entry into the bloc to mitigate security risks, the EU’s top home affairs official said Thursday. Europe “needs to make sure that we do not take in people that could pose a security threat […]
(Global News) A Toronto man who approached a woman on a sidewalk and killed her with a hammer last year pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder and terrorism, admitting he did it for the so-called Islamic State. In an agreed statement of […]
(Reuters) A Brooklyn woman who will be resentenced for supporting Islamic State after a court threw out her “shockingly low” four-year prison term did not attend a Wednesday court hearing, and a prosecutor suggested she may have cut her monitoring bracelet. U.S. […]
(Toronto Star) Canada’s minister for women and gender equality, Maryam Monsef, faced a torrent of criticism Wednesday after she referred to the Taliban as “our brothers” in a plea to ensure safe passage for thousands looking to flee Afghanistan. The “cultural reference” […]
(Stuff) The family of Suhayra Aden, a woman who joined Islamic State, moved to New Zealand in recent months in anticipation of her return. Aden, the first New Zealander known to return after joining the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria […]
(Free Beacon) The Taliban’s release of prisoners throughout Afghanistan poses a security threat on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to senior Department of Homeland Security officials and national security experts. The Taliban freed thousands of prisoners, many of whom either worked directly with […]
(Brussels Times) The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is not expected to lead to an increased risk of terrorist acts in Belgium in the short term, experts said on Monday. The risk is also limited in the longer term, as the Taliban will […]
(Defense One) Security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS, a U.S. official confirmed to Defense One. Moreover, the Defense Department’s […]
(AFP) The discovery of Afghan evacuees representing potential security risks in France and Britain has put the spotlight on screening efforts during the evacuation operation with Western diplomats working under extreme pressure in Kabul. Five Afghans who arrived in France in recent […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) On Monday, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Bernard Raymond Augustine, a U.S. citizen, of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS” or “the Islamic State”). The verdict […]
(AFP) France has placed under surveillance an Afghan evacuated from Kabul who is suspected of links to the Taliban, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. About 1,300 Afghans have in recent days been evacuated by France via a military base in […]
(Daily Caller) A small percentage of Afghan refugees are being flagged through biometric and background checks for possible ties to terrorism, one Pentagon official and a second person familiar with the process of security screenings told the Daily Caller. The Pentagon official […]
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(TVNZ) The woman accused of having ties to ISIS, Suhayra Aden, has arrived in New Zealand today, 1 NEWS understands. It is understood she was accompanied by police on the flight that touched down in New Zealand this morning. Exclusive pictures show […]
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(Courthouse News) A federal appeals court vacated the sentence of an Islamic State supporter on Wednesday after federal prosecutors argued she got off too easy. Sinmyah Amera Ceasar, a U.S. citizen also known by her online nom de guerre Umm Nutella — […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Federal Parliament will need to sit in a locked-down Canberra over the next fortnight, with the government in a race against time to extend control orders on people considered a terrorist risk that will otherwise expire early next month. […]
(Connexion) Nice will not allow Afghan refugees to settle, mayor Christian Estrosi has said, because the city has suffered due to Islamic terrorism in recent years. When asked on RTL if Nice would welcome refugees, Mr Estrosi said: “No, no, it’s very […]
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(AFP) Barcelona staged a low-key ceremony on Tuesday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort four years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens of […]
(Washington Examiner) Unprecedented numbers of known or suspected terrorists have crossed the southern border in recent months, the outgoing Border Patrol chief said. The head of the Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, told his 19,000 agents before retiring on Aug. 14 that their […]
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(Breitbart) The Swedish government has taken the children of five Islamic State women into custody after the women were deported back to the country from Turkey. A Swedish court made the move to separate the ten children from the five Islamic State […]
(NY Post) When former TSA undercover agents learned that a passenger with a loaded handgun breezed past scanners at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and boarded a flight to Tokyo in 2019, they were not surprised. They had done the same thing on a […]
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(Stuff) The government has been preparing since 2018 for numerous New Zealand citizens to return from the former Islamic State of Iraq and Syria with their children. Cabinet ministers last month agreed to the managed repatriation of Suhayra Aden, who will be […]
(National-UAE) European crisis commissioner Janez Lenarčič has said a “zero tolerance” principle will apply to aid group Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) if it is found to have links to the Muslim Brotherhood and terror groups. It follows calls for an investigation from […]
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