(Breitbart) Hugo Micheron, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), has claimed that the rise in jihadist activity in France and Belgium is directly linked to “neglected” enclaves and prisons in the two countries. Micheron interviewed 80 jihadists […]
(AP) Italy on Saturday expelled a Moroccan imam back to his home country because of what it said was his support for the Islamic State group. Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese cited reasons of state security in sending the 41-year-old imam, identified only […]
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(Brussels Times) One Belgian man was responsible for the planning of a series of terrorist attacks in Europe in 2015 and 2016, including the Paris attacks of November 2015 and the two attacks at Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro on 22 March […]
(Deutsche Welle) Since the 2016 terrorist attack in Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, German authorities have prevented a further nine attacks of a similar nature, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said Sunday. Indeed, last month alone, two acts of terror were thwarted, the BKA told Germany’s Welt […]
(Daily Beast) After tips from Islamic centers in two different states, authorities arrested a Connecticut man they allege attempted to travel overseas to join the Islamic State. Kevin Imam McCormick, 26, was charged on Oct. 21 with providing material support to a […]
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(CBC) Turkish authorities alleged a Canadian man had ISIS propaganda on his phone when he and his wife were arrested near the Syrian border this summer, CBC News has learned. The newlywed couple were held for three months before being released and returning […]
(AP) A Brooklyn man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group, in part by encouraging attacks on New York’s subway system. Zachary Clark, 40, was detained after an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court, where […]
(Anadolu) A Daesh/ISIS terrorist who was stranded at the Turkey-Greece border has been extradited to the U.S., the Turkish interior minister said Friday. “Today an American who was stuck between our country and Greece was extradited to the U.S. from Istanbul a […]
(AFP) The United States and its European allies clashed Thursday over what to do with thousands of jihadists jailed in Syria, with Washington calling a French proposal to try fighters in Iraq “irresponsible.” Senior officials from more than 30 countries pledged greater […]
(Breitbart) Like many across the United States, upon hearing the news that Islamic State terror leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi had been cornered in Syria and died after detonating a suicide vest, Tania Joya was happy the “serial rapist” was dead. “We are […]
(ABC-Australia) A former Adelaide student found guilty of being a member of Islamic State (IS) has had her conviction overturned on appeal, despite the state’s chief justice accepting she had pledged allegiance to the terror group. Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif was convicted at trial […]
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(Canadian Press) The federal government showed no signs Monday of changing Canada’s national-threat level from its current classification of “medium” despite fears in some countries that the Islamic State group will launch retaliatory strikes over the killing of its shadowy leader during […]
(Sky News) Security officials are increasing monitoring of high-priority Islamist extremist suspects in Britain following the death of the leader of Islamic State, according to Sky sources. The move is precautionary amid warnings of the potential for reprisal attacks by supporters of […]
(Townhall) The news cycle has been inundated with coverage of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi’s killing by U.S. forces in a top-secret raid. Everyone in politics flocked to social media to acknowledge the terrorist’s death. Rep. Omar was a little slow to respond to […]
(Reuters) French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, in a letter to police prefects seen by Reuters, called on Sunday for increased vigilance to prevent possible revenge attacks following the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “… The possible intensification of jihadist […]
(AFP) The refusal of the French government to take back Islamic State fighters from Syria could fuel a new jihadist recruitment drive in France, threatening public safety, a leading anti-terrorism investigator has told AFP. David De Pas, coordinator of France’s 12 anti-terrorism […]
(Global News) Sitting in a dim room at a detention camp in northern Syria, Kimberly Polman was feeling vulnerable. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had vowed to free female prisoners like herself, and she believed him. “I take it seriously,” Polman said. […]
(ITV) One of the first British men to join so-called Islamic State has been traced to a prison in northern Syria by ITV News, where he said he misses his mother, his old life in Cardiff, and wants to return home. Aseel […]
(CBC) Before he was captured by Syrian Kurdish forces in February, Canadian Mohammed Khalifa went from being a cog in the ranks of ISIS to its English-language voice. Khalifa, 35, who goes by his ISIS nom de guerre Abu Ridwan, says he […]
(Euro Weekly) National Police have arrested an alleged member of DAESH (ISIS) who was storing manuals on how to carry out terror attacks. The man was a member of several restricted pro-DAESH jihadist messaging groups, which have been the main source of […]
(Detroit News) A Dearborn man captured overseas and charged with supporting the Islamic State fought in two countries, fired on Syrian forces and trained in religious and military camps, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors provided new details about Ibraheem Musaibli’s journey to jihad and […]
(RTÉ) “It wasn’t worth it. We failed,” says Lisa Smith of her decision to leave Ireland and join the caliphate in Syria around three years ago. “What we believed; we actually thought it was going to be an Islamic State … and we would […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) Like many a 20-year-old, Greenacre youth Isaak el Matari harboured big ambitions. But if allegations made against him in court this week prove correct, his dreams were far from the run-of-the-mill variety shared by most young men his age. […]
(VOA) Once al-Qaida’s chief American propagandist, Jesse Morton is now propagandizing for peace. In 2009, Morton, then part of a group of Muslim extremists in New York, helped launch Jihad Recollections, the first in a line of online glossy magazines that captured […]
(AFP) An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said. Captured in Syria by a US-backed force fighting the jihadists, they are the first French […]
(IPT) As IPT Senior Fellow Patrick Dunleavy noted Friday, the Islamic Circle of North America has helped update a report on terrorist prosecutions in the United States which claims more than 9 in 10 cases involving Muslim suspects are bogus. “Many convicted […]
(Jerusalem Post) A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) organizer, Zohra Lasania, the program director of CAIR-Pittsburgh, reportedly gave legitimacy to a Zionists-ISIS conspiracy, according to the Middle East Forum, a conservative think-tank. Lasania reportedly posted on Facebook an article first published by […]
(Christian Post) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January 2017, July 2017, and September 2018 on a range of topics including Islamism and what he believes is its antidote, the Muslim Reform Movement. This is a follow-up interview. Jasser is president […]
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(Politico) President Donald Trump complained Tuesday that European countries are not carrying their weight in the effort to relocate captured Islamic State soldiers after the militant group’s physical territory in Syria crumbled earlier this year. “We have 1,800 ISIS Prisoners taken hostage […]
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(AFP) Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain’s wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded […]
(CTV) It took time and patience to negotiate access to the al-Hawl refugee camp in eastern Syria. A few cups of tea, a group photo with a Kurdish intelligence officer, and after a couple days, permission was granted. Al-Hawl is a vast […]
(AFP) Two French women who fled the Islamic State group’s last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists. The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the […]
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(Toronto Star) A year after her plan to leave her husband and two children to join a terrorist group in Syria was thwarted, Rehab Dughmosh entered a Scarborough Canadian Tire in 2017 and shouted “This is for ISIS” as she attacked employees […]
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