(Global News) Canada is experiencing a “concerning increase” in extremism but does not need to raise its terrorism threat level, according to CSIS. Despite a series of attacks and disrupted plots, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said the threat level would remain […]
(Global News) On June 15, 2023, police searched a Calgary home and found an ISIS flag, three knives, bomb-making instructions and ideological tracts on killing gay men. “I’m a member of ISIS,” the owner of the materials, Zakarya Rida Hussein, had written […]
(Global News) The Conservatives have called on the government to explain how a 20-year-old Pakistani arrested in Quebec over an alleged ISIS plot targeting U.S. Jews was able to get into Canada. Federal officials declined to answer questions about the immigration status […]
(Global News) The arrest of a father and son accused of planning a mass casualty attack in Toronto on behalf of ISIS suggests the enduring appeal of the terrorist group. Five years after it was defeated in Syria, where it committed scores […]
(Global News) Canada’s intelligence service warned Thursday about the “security implications” posed by captured ISIS members the government is bringing home from detention camps in Syria. In its annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said extremists returning from abroad might not […]
(Global News) The victim slashed in the neck by an alleged ISIS supporter aboard a transit bus in B.C. says the attack was unprovoked. “I wasn’t expecting it at all,” the resident of Surrey, B.C., told his family in text messages written […]
(Global News) A Canadian terrorism expert says police and crown prosecutors will have their work cut out for them in proving a horrific attack on a Surrey, B.C., bus this weekend was an act of terror. Abdul Aziz Kawam was initially facing […]
(Vancouver Sun) A man arrested after a bus passenger was seriously injured in a knife attack in Surrey on Saturday now faces four terrorism charges. The charges of “committing an offence for the benefit of a terrorist organization” — specifically the Islamic […]
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