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(Fox) Senate Republicans are demanding answers from the Biden administration amid reports that hundreds of Afghan evacuees are walking off U.S. military bases without completing the resettlement process. In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of Defense […]
(Global News) A Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria and flown to the United States to stand trial should have been prosecuted in Canada, a lawyer representing his family said Monday. “If there is evidence against Canadians who are being arbitrarily detained […]
(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 […]
(Free Beacon) A College Democrats of America leader is facing pressure to resign after her anti-Semitic tweets resurfaced. Just one day before Nourhan Mesbah was elected vice president of the College Democrats’ executive board, the national student club’s Jewish Caucus released a […]
(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, […]
(KVIA) The FBI is investigating the assault of a female Fort Bliss soldier by several male Afghan refugees at the Army’s Doña Ana Complex camp where thousands are currently being housed, officials told ABC-7 on Friday. “We can confirm a female service […]
(WTVO) Two Afghan evacuees have been charged with crimes while at Fort McCoy. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and […]
(Detroit News) An Ypsilanti man indicted on gun charges who the FBI accused of being an Islamic State supporter was convicted Monday in the first federal, criminal jury verdict in Metro Detroit since the start of the pandemic. Yousef Ramadan, 32, was convicted […]
(Religion News) Muslim federal employees who say they felt discriminated against under President Trump are advocating for new federal policies to prevent workplace bias, with many backing a new initiative from Muslim Americans in Public Service aimed at getting the Biden administration to […]
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) The Syrian man accused of plotting to bomb a North Side church in 2019 talked about potentially planting a second explosive device, timing its detonation to coincide with when first responders would begin to arrive, federal prosecutors said Thursday. That […]
(Detroit Free Press) Northville Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn’t the only doctor who was cutting children, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday. Rather, they said, […]
(Detroit Free Press) Nearly five years after it emerged, the nation’s first female genital mutilation case has taken yet another turn in a heated feud between a government that says children were unlawfully cut and a doctor who says she only “scraped” young […]
(Cleveland.com) A northwest Ohio resident who admitted plotting a mass shooting at a Toledo-area synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, was arrested […]
(Daily Wire) Earlier this week, the Daily Wire reported that a school board member whose father was on the board of the mosque attended by 9/11 hijackers and who hired as imam a top al-Qaeda operative, opposed a resolution honoring the victims […]
(AP) A declassified FBI document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks details contacts the men had with Saudi associates in the United States but does not provide proof that […]
(Fox) A group of four Democratic congresswomen on Friday introduced a resolution condemning racism in the U.S. government and outlining relief for victims of racism 20 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Ilhan Omar [of] […]
(New Arab) A US-based Muslim rights group is calling for the removal of a member of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum trustee board following “numerous Islamophobic statements” made during her participation in a webinar marking the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks. Board member […]
(Philadelphia Inquirer) A husband and wife from Montgomery County each were ordered Thursday to spend more than a year in federal prison for sending money overseas to help two relatives travel to Syria and join ISIS. Shahidul Gaffar, 40, and Nabila Khan, […]
(CNN) Pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been accused of being the lead plotter behind the September 11 attacks, and four other detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are set to resume on Tuesday. The last in-person hearing […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(Middle East Eye) The number of reported hate crimes targeting Muslims in the US fell by more than a third in 2020, according to newly published data by the FBI. According to the federal agency, the number of reported hate crimes against Muslims in […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 — […]
(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 […]
(NY Post) Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar […]
(LA Times) A U.S. Army veteran who wanted revenge for attacks on Muslims around the globe and was alleged to have planned to detonate a bomb at a Long Beach rally was convicted Wednesday of the attempted mass casualty attack. Mark Steven […]
(AP) The Justice Department said Monday that it would work toward providing families of 9/11 victims with more information about the run-up to the attacks as part of a federal lawsuit that aims to hold the Saudi government accountable. The disclosure in […]
(NBC) Nearly 1,800 Americans directly affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are opposing President Joe Biden’s participation in any memorial events this year unless he upholds his pledge to declassify U.S. government evidence that they believe may show a link […]
(Hill) Democratic senators and families of victims of the 9/11 attacks called on Thursday for the Biden administration to declassify and make available key documents related to Saudi Arabia’s role in the terrorist attacks, ahead of the 20th anniversary commemorating the tragedy. […]
(Boston Herald) As the solemn 9/11 anniversary approaches, the fight for transparency continues. The September 11th Transparency Act of 2021 — bipartisan legislation to improve access to federal 9/11 investigations — is being introduced Thursday by [Sen.] Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. […]
(BuzzFeed) An American-born girl who grew up under ISIS control was rescued from a Syrian detention camp last month after the girl’s mother — a US citizen who left the country and in 2014 joined the terrorist organization — and her father […]
(Courthouse News) A Hezbollah-trained sleeper agent who scouted New York City buildings for possible targets of terrorism failed to secure a reversal of his 40-year prison sentence Tuesday. At oral arguments back in April, attorneys for Lebanon-born Ali Kourani [said he] only […]
(NY Post) Four Iranian intelligence operatives schemed to kidnap a Brooklyn-based journalist and smuggle her to Iran in a bid to silence her criticism of human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic, federal authorities said Tuesday. In an interview with the Post, […]
(AP) As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approaches, victims’ relatives are pressing the courts to answer what they see as lingering questions about the Saudi government’s role. A lawsuit that accuses Saudi Arabia of being complicit took a […]
(Detroit News) A one-armed Islamic State soldier testified Monday he served alongside a Dearborn man accused of fighting on behalf of the terrorist organization, an unprecedented admission in federal court during the war on terror. Minnesota resident Abdelhamid Al-Madioum testified during a […]
(Detroit News) A convicted Islamic State soldier is expected to make federal court history Monday by testifying against a Dearborn man captured on a Syrian battlefield three years ago. Prosecutors on Monday plan to call Minnesota resident Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 24, as a cooperating […]
(AP) A 20-year-old Seattle man pleaded not guilty Thursday to a federal charge that he tried to join the Islamic State group. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams was arrested late last month at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as he checked in for a flight […]
(Courthouse News) Mariam Taha Thompson, a 62-year-old contract linguist who worked for the Pentagon, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison Wednesday for transmitting highly sensitive information to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah. “Thompson’s sentence reflects the seriousness of her violation […]
(Fox) “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., retweeted a video produced by an anti-Israel organization previously investigated by the FBI for possible terrorist ties. On Tuesday, one day after she posted a now-infamous tweet likening the U.S. and Israel to terror groups […]
(CBC) A Canadian family and U.S. experts alike say a mentally ill man from Mississauga, Ont., who was convicted for his role in an online terror plot while a teenager shouldn’t be in a supermaximum security prison in Colorado. Instead, they say he should […]
(Courthouse News) Wading into a decade-old class action, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to look at the FBI’s use of an informant to collect information from several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques for more than a year. The FBI petitioned the […]
(Dallas Morning News) His brother was accused of gunning down his own teenage daughters as they sat inside his taxicab. But Yassein Said didn’t turn him in. Instead, he helped Yaser Said hide from police for over a dozen years, authorities said. […]
(KOMO) A Seattle man was arrested at Sea-Tac International Airport as he was about to travel to join ISIS in order to engage in violent acts of terrorism in the Middle East or the U.S., federal officials said. The suspect, identified as […]
(AP) A federal judge has denied compassionate release from prison for a Phoenix man convicted of making false statements to FBI agents and witness tampering during the investigation of a terror attack six years ago in suburban Dallas. U.S. District Judge John […]
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