(Yle) The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) has resumed processing of asylum applications from Syrians. Those applications have been in limbo since December due to dramatic changes in the security situation in Syria. Migri said on Friday that it had begun conducting asylum […]
(Algemeiner) A US Army veteran and former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) who has made discredited claims against Israel is scheduled to speak later this week at a conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a nonprofit advocacy […]
(Detroit Free Press) The mayor of Dearborn ripped into a resident who objected to the placing of two signs in the city honoring an Arab American leader, telling the resident he’s “not welcome here.” In his fiery remarks at Tuesday’s council meeting […]
(NY Post) A House intelligence panel announced Thursday it will conduct a bipartisan review of recommendations included in the 9/11 Commission report, with hearings to be held starting next month as the nation prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the al Qaeda terror attacks next […]
(AP) Nearly a quarter century has passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but for many, the emotions of the day remain raw as ever. On Thursday, America marked the 24th anniversary of the deadly attacks with solemn ceremonies in New York, […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country’s public schools. CAIR, whose leaders celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror […]
(GB News) A British judge has caused outrage after he wished the mastermind behind the 7/7 tube bombings in London “all the best” as he prepares to walk free. Sir Robert Jay made the remark to Haroon Aswat, who is set to […]
(Media Line) The Hamas terrorist network in the United States has spent more than two decades working to infiltrate America’s media and college campuses. The goal: to hijack the narrative and secure unintentional support for terrorism from the broader public. According to […]
(CBS) A federal judge in New York denied a motion by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims who are seeking to hold the Middle Eastern country responsible for potentially providing support to the […]
(Free Beacon) The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose executive director said that Israel is behind the “root causes of what is happening in Palestine/Israel,” announced this week that it is partnering with local schools to make them […]
(Reuters) Victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks and the August 7, 1998, bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa cannot seize $3.5 billion of Afghanistan central bank assets to address the Taliban’s role in the attacks, a divided federal appeals […]
(Toronto Star) A Newmarket man accused of plotting to leave Canada to join ISIS while still a youth has been ordered to sign a terrorism peace bond requiring him to remain in the country and avoid extremist material on social media, where […]
(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to clarify comments he made on a radio show earlier this week, where he appeared to threaten the domestic non-profit group with a terror designation […]
(NY Post) Taxpayer funds totaling $25 million were handed to US groups with alleged links to terror organizations or extremist ideology, a bombshell new study has found. In a twist of irony, the funds were originally allocated to help deradicalize would-be terrorists, […]
(VRT) The convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi is on his way to Belgium from the United States. VRT NWS has learned from a reliable source that the US is extraditing Trabelsi, who was convicted of terrorist offences and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is petitioning the IRS to formally investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for violations of its tax-exempt status, citing “ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,” according to a formal letter […]
(LBC) A terrorist who is said to have confessed to being a mastermind behind the 7/7 bombings is set to be freed from prison “within days.” Haroon Aswat, 50, has been declared “a risk to national security” but could be released soon […]
(Free Beacon) New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father wrote shortly after 9/11 that there was a “moral equivalence” between the al Qaeda attack and retaliatory U.S. bombing of Afghanistan. “There is an eerie similarity between the American bombing of Iraq […]
(Euronews) Since demonstrations in Berlin and Düsseldorf turned violent when supporters of Syria’s new government clashed with pro-Kurdish demonstrators, discussions surrounding radical Islamism in Germany have been on the rise. At the protests last weekend, people celebrated the wave of attacks on […]
(European Conservative) In front of Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of the city’s mayor, nearly 400 men — many of them reportedly Syrian refugees — publicly celebrated the recent massacres committed against the Druze community in Syria. Eyewitnesses report […]
(LBC) A man has been found guilty of travelling to Syria to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaida for jihad. Isa Giga, 32, resigned from his job as a technical support consultant … at a technology firm and bought […]
(Canadian Press) A man with ties to al-Qaida who allegedly threatened to bomb public transit will likely plead guilty, his lawyer said Monday at the Montreal courthouse. Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, appeared in court by video conference from Montreal’s Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre, […]
(NY Post) The Bowdoin College chapter of radical group Students for Justice in Palestine, co-founded by socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, went to bat for a terrorist convicted of deadly bombings in Israel — and was then later booted out of […]
(Daily Caller) A super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor accepted $1,000 from a Muslim cleric linked to the architects of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist plots. Imam Siraj Wahhaj donated to the super […]
(NY Post) Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani co-founded a college club that invited a radical speaker who called Israel a bigger terror threat than Hamas — and boasted he was greatly influenced by a Palestinian leader nicknamed the “godfather of Middle Eastern terrorism.” […]
(CTV) A crown prosecutor is now treating a man’s alleged threat of a mass killing in Montreal in May as a terrorist act and wants to secure a life sentence for the accused. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, was arrested by the RCMP […]
(NY Post) Socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani appears to defend al Qaeda fiend Anwar al-Awlaki — and blame America for turning the prostitution-loving cleric into a terrorist — in newly surfaced tweets. Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, […]
(National-UAE) The 20th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks in London, on Monday, throws a spotlight on how the UK’s counter-terrorism approach changed, and how its focus on Islamist groups has deepened social divisions. The bombings, also referred to as 7/7, […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered the Belgian state to pay additional penalties for not doing enough to bring convicted Nizar Trabelsi back to Belgium. The former Tunisian footballer was sentenced in Belgium in 2004 to 10 years in prison […]
(Yabiladi) French far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is scheduled to stand trial on September 2, 2025, for defamation against the association Valeurs et Réussite, which runs an independent Muslim school in Valence. According to AFP, citing a source close to the case and […]
(NY Post) A convicted Al-Qaeda sympathizer who conspired to kill Americans in shopping malls and traveled to the Mideast to train with the terror group was teaching kids at a Muslim community center on Staten Island. Tarek Mehanna — who prosecutors say […]
(Belga) 18 per cent of the threat reports received by the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) in 2024 involved minors. There is also “rapid radicalisation among minors,” the organisation says in its annual report published on Thursday. According to CUTA, the […]
(Arab News) A student who attempted to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms in May 2010 can be released from prison following a Parole Board decision. Roshonara Choudhry was 21 when she was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years for stabbing Timms […]
(NY Post) The leader of a heinous Islamist terror group has called for President Trump and scores of his top advisers to be assassinated as revenge for their pro-Israel stances, the Post has learned. Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, the newest leader of […]
(ABC) Five alleged high-profile terrorist attacks have occurred across the United States in the first six months of 2025, including four that investigators suspect were motivated by the war in Gaza or radicalized by the ISIS terrorist group. But as law enforcement […]
(GB News) A pro-Palestinian demonstrator who was arrested but not ultimately charged with terror charges after chanting support for the October 7 Hamas attacks has been identified as Mohammad al-Mail, a 27-year-old Kuwaiti national who was granted refugee status in Britain in […]
(GB News) Yasmine Mohammed has revealed the harrowing reality of escaping a forced marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, only to face death threats from her own mother for removing her hijab. The human rights activist told GB News about her “terrifying” ordeal, […]
(CTV) A man convicted of supporting al-Qaeda in the early 2000s will undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he was arrested this week in Montreal for allegedly threatening to commit a mass killing. The RCMP arrested Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, on Wednesday after […]
(CTV) A man convicted of terrorism offences in the United States, and who had ties to al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, allegedly threatened to kill “a large number of people” in Montreal, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Court records […]
(Daily Caller) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a suspected Al-Qaida member residing in a city notorious for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Authorities apprehended a Tajikistan-born Russian national in the early morning hours of May 23 in Philadelphia, […]
(AP) A Swedish man was indicted Tuesday in connection with the killing by the Islamic State group of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014, prosecutors said. The 26-year-old Jordanian, 1st Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, was taken […]
(Deutsche Welle) The charges against the four defendants, all Russian nationals, are serious. Appearing at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg on Monday, they will be facing accusations of being members of a foreign criminal organization and of supporting a foreign terrorist […]
(Reuters) Sweden’s SAPO security service lowered its national terrorist threat warning on Friday back to the “elevated” level assessed before 2023, when it was raised in the wake of a spate of Koran burnings. SAPO had raised the threat level to “high,” […]
(Jerusalem Post) Following long months of bureaucratic processes, the Hamas ban in Switzerland finally came into effect last week. The bill was drawn up by the Swiss government at the request of parliament, following the October 7 attacks. It targets both Hamas […]
(Times of India) A former jihadist operative from the US who had allegedly attended proscribed terror outfit Lashker e Taiba’s training camp in Pakistan in 2000, helped other jihadists gain entry to these camps and engaged in terrorist activities in Kashmir, including […]
(Reuters) Instability in Syria could pose security risks for Europe, according to a draft internal EU counter-terrorism document seen by Reuters warning that the overall terror threat level remains high. European officials have been cautiously optimistic about Syria’s new leadership — which […]
(Deutsche Welle) This Friday, many eyes will be on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, for a historic trial: Two men are accused of “improper treatment of a religious scripture.” They are accused of having burned a copy of the […]
(Blaze) Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), a rising star in Republican circles and on TV news, told Blaze News he was married by a radical Muslim cleric but did not realize it at the time. Mills rocketed to the heights of political celebrity […]
(NY Times) A military judge on Monday postponed the trial in Al Qaeda’s 2000 bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole until next year to give defense lawyers more time to prepare for the death penalty case. The judge, Col. Matthew S. […]
(Free Beacon) California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) recently awarded taxpayer funds under a state antiterrorism program to a San Diego mosque that has been linked to 9/11 hijackers and whose imam defended the Hamas attack on Israel. Newsom, considered a top 2028 […]
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