(Global News) Writing under the alias “Sulaiman Dawood al-Kanadie,” he penned fiery propaganda for the Islamic State about attacks that would dwarf Sept. 11, 2001. In the ISIS magazine Voice of Khurasan, he praised the terror group’s late leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]
(Global News) An Islamic State financier from Toronto has admitted he used online fundraising platforms to raise money he sent overseas for the terrorist group’s fighters. At the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday, Khalilullah Yousuf pleaded guilty to terrorist financing […]
(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) The terrorist threat in Canada “has rarely been higher,” according to a report released on Wednesday in the aftermath of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans. “The bottom line: Terrorism in Canada is on the rise,” said the […]
(Global News) To Canadian national security officials, Samy Nefkha-Bahri is a supporter of “armed jihad abroad,” who had “dubious associations” and wanted to take part in “combat in Syria.” Classified government reports obtained by Global News allege he led a group that […]
(Global News) Six months after Kevin Omar Mohamed‘s prison sentence for terrorism came to an end, the RCMP’s Toronto O-INSET national security team decided to check up on him. What they found set off alarms. Not only was he violating his probation […]
(Global News) Ten months after returning to Canada from Turkey, a Toronto-area woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to join the so-called Islamic State. Haleema Mustafa, a resident of Markham, Ont., was taken into custody at around noon on Wednesday and […]
(Global News) An Edmonton woman has been identified by intelligence officials as an alleged ISIS supporter and Al Shabaab member and who recruited a young Canadian to travel to Syria, Global News has learned. Top secret documents publicly disclosed in court, and […]
(CBC) The RCMP has been combing through the background of two Canadian newlyweds who disappeared while on vacation in Turkey and are suspected of trying to join ISIS, according to multiple sources. Haleema Mustafa and Ikar Mao, both in their early 20s, […]
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