(GB News) Two extremists who plotted a terror attack against Jews in Manchester are being held in a cushy jail where inmates are given paint classes and DVDs. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were convicted last week over their plot […]
(NL Times) A Syrian man arrested two weeks ago in Vlissingen was under investigation for several crimes related to terrorism, including a possible plot to launch an attack around Christmastime, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) said on Tuesday. The 29-year-old “may […]
(Middle East Eye) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has called on the UK government to explain its decision to strip a British woman of her citizenship after she fled to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State (IS) […]
(National-UAE) In a Turkish-style restaurant in Strasbourg sits a self-described far-left, anti-racist, feminist politician who wants to be France’s equivalent of New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Cem Yoldas is seeking election in March as mayor of Strasbourg, France’s eighth largest city, but […]
(BBC) Two men who plotted to attack Jews in Greater Manchester in what could have been “the UK’s most deadly terrorist attack” were caught by an undercover operative who put himself in “significant danger,” police said. Walid Saadaoui, 38, arranged to smuggle […]
(Sky News) Two Islamic State extremists have been found guilty of plotting a deadly gun attack on Manchester’s Jewish community. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday. They had bought […]
(BBC) A 23-year-old man has been charged with being a member of the Islamic State group. Abdullah Yousef, of Galapagos Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, was arrested on 16 December and charged with a string of terrorism offences on Monday. Mr Yousef […]
(NL Times) A 23-year-old man who killed a German man and injured another in a stabbing attack at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge on September 19, 2024, will receive treatment under forced psychiatric supervision (TBS with involuntary care), the court ruled Friday, concluding that […]
(AFP) The second Frenchwoman to be repatriated from Syrian camps holding Islamic State (IS) members and displaced people was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in prison. Carole Sun, 30, was found guilty of participating in a terrorist criminal conspiracy by a […]
(TVP) Poland’s recent arrest of a 19-year-old university student accused of plotting a bomb attack on a Christmas market has reignited concerns about how radicalization can take root far from traditional conflict zones and often beyond the immediate view of security services. […]
(Notes from Poland) Poland has detained a man who was allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a Christmas market as an act of support for Islamic State. Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesman for the security services, announced on Tuesday morning that the suspect […]
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have searched the home of a suspected supporter of the “Islamic State” militant group in the state of Baden-Württemberg amid concerns about possible attack planning. Prosecutors and state police said on Tuesday that officers searched the apartment of […]
(National-UAE) A 38-year-old French woman repatriated from Syria in 2022 after joining ISIS in Syria has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Details of the life of the woman, known as Lucie C, were discussed during a three-day trial at the […]
(AFP) A Syrian man who was arrested at the scene of a stabbing that killed a teen and wounded five others in Austria has admitted terror offences, prosecutors said on Monday. The 23-year-old suspect was detained in February in the southern city […]
(Swiss Info) A 25-year-old man was detained ahead of last May’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel after allegedly making violent threats against Jewish people. He was later deported to France by the Swiss authorities. The event was intended as a celebration of […]
(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have arrested five men suspected of planning an attack on a Christmas market, the Munich public prosecutor’s office said Saturday. What do we know so far? The foiled plot was targeting a Christmas market in the area of Dingolfing in the […]
(NL Times) The Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security is warning that terrorist attacks in the Netherlands are increasingly committed by individuals acting alone, a shift that authorities say makes plots harder to detect and stop. The new warning appears in […]
(Breitbart) The wife and children of a Somalian ISIS leader are reportedly living in taxpayer-funded accommodation in Britain. The purported global leader of the so-called Islamic State terrorist network, Abdul Qadir Mumin, has a wife and three children living in a council apartment […]
(Brussels Times) One year after the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime, Belgium’s federal prosecutor is investigating 19 cases of suspected war crimes by individuals from Syria. The investigations were revealed on Thursday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), with Belgian […]
(Euronews) Germany arrested two Iraqi nationals suspected of membership in the so-called Islamic State group (IS) on Tuesday in coordinated raids across five cities, the federal public prosecutor announced on Wednesday. Muthana S and Kais S J were detained in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, […]
(Brussels Times) The federal prosecutor has demanded a ten-year prison sentence for a man being prosecuted for attempted murder with a terrorist motive, among other charges. On the evening of 17 January, a 35-year-old man from Borgerhout recklessly drove his car at […]
(ITV) The brother of a man accused of plotting to kill Jewish people at a mass gathering in Manchester has told a jury that he thought he was being “abducted or kidnapped” when police came to arrest him. Bilel Saadaoui claimed six […]
(Dutch News) An Amersfoort man who stabbed another man to death on the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam last September and seriously injured a second should be jailed for 20 years, followed by psychiatric prison, the public prosecution department said at his trial […]
(Deutsche Welle) In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the “Islamic State” (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as […]
(European Conservative) France’s domestic intelligence service has warned of a growing threat to Christian communities, according to a confidential report obtained by Le Figaro that links recent attacks in Europe to decades of jihadist propaganda. The warning comes in the wake of […]
(Brussels Times) A 27-year-old man from Menen, West Flanders, was sentenced again on Wednesday to 15 years in prison by the Ghent Court of Appeal for attempting a terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIL). Abubakar S., of Chechen origin, […]
(Jerusalem Post) Over a billion Swedish kronor, or more than $100 million, in taxpayer-backed funds intended to support preschools and schools in Sweden have been siphoned off through an Islamist-affiliated network engaged in welfare fraud, an investigation by the Swedish newspaper Expressen […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Criminal Court has sentenced two men from the Balkans, the so-called “Frères de Genève” [the Geneva Brothers], to 30 and 53 months in prison for their support of the Islamic State group. However, the court on Monday acquitted […]
(AFP) A 19-year-old Syrian went on trial in Berlin on Thursday over a knife attack on a Spanish tourist at the German capital’s Holocaust memorial days before February’s general election. The suspect, partially named as Wassim Al M., is accused of being […]
(BBC) A former restaurant owner accused of plotting a terror atrocity against Jews has denied he is a “shameless liar.” Walid Saadaoui, 38, is said to have wanted to cause “untold harm” and kill as many people as he could in a […]
(AFP) Sweden on Thursday charged a 23-year-old Swedish-Syrian man with several “terrorist crimes,” including attempts to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State (IS) group, prosecutors said. He is also accused of both financing and attempting to finance IS through cryptocurrencies, […]
(ITV) A man accused of hatching a terrorist attack to “kill as many Jewish people as possible” only pretended to go along with the plot so he could “sabotage it” and “take the evidence to the police,” a jury has heard. Walid […]
(GB News) A High Court judge has ruled the segregation of a convicted terrorist from other prisoners following an attack breached his human rights. Sahayb Abu received a life sentence for terrorism offences with a minimum term of 19 years in 2021 […]
(Jerusalem Post) An 18-year-old from south London appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism after officers arrested him at Gatwick Airport as he tried to board a flight to Istanbul; prosecutors said he planned […]
(AFP) An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said. The man, who holds dual Swedish and Syrian citizenship, had sworn loyalty to the […]
(Politics Home) A secretive Home Office department funded a little-known boyband to travel around Muslim areas of the UK and sing songs with anti-radicalisation themes during the height of ISIS terror attacks, PoliticsHome can reveal. Mr Meanor, a pop trio featuring singers […]
(Jerusalem Post) Germany has filed charges against a Syrian national on allegations of ISIS membership, Germany’s public prosecutor general at the Federal Court of Justice stated on Friday. “The accused is sufficiently suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization,” the public […]
(Brussels Times) Belgian IS fighter Sammy Djedou, who is believed to be dead, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday by the Brussels Assize Court for genocide and crimes against humanity. Djedou left for Syria in 2012 and committed serious crimes against […]
(France 24) Ten years after the worst terrorist attack on French soil, President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday led a day of commemorations for the victims of the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks, which killed 132 people, including two survivors who later died […]
(Radio France) As France marks 10 years since the 13 November Paris attacks, security experts warn the jihadist threat has shifted to a younger generation drawn in through algorithm-driven feeds. Radicalisation is now happening faster and earlier, with teenagers lured by online […]
(Brussels Times) A Brussels court has found Belgian jihadi Sammy Djedou guilty of genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, marking a historic first for the country. Djedou, a former Islamic State fighter, was long believed to have been killed […]
(Times of Malta) A 33-year-old man has been jailed for ten years after pleading guilty to terrorism charges, making it the first case on terrorism propaganda and incitement to be decided by a local court. Mouhamadou Dosso, who holds an Ivorian passport […]
(AFP) A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world’s two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say. With strong central leadership, […]
(National-UAE) Children of British men and women who went to Syria to fight for ISIS could become “serious terrorists,” the chairman of an independent counter-terrorism commission has claimed. With up to 40 children of UK citizens trapped in Syria, the British government […]
(Press Release) An 18-year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offence following an investigation led by Counter Terrorism Policing London. Chafik Aziz (17.05.2007) of Wallington, Sutton, was charged on 11 November with an offence contrary to section 5 (1)(a) of the […]
(Sky News) Shamima Begum, the former east London schoolgirl who joined Islamic State, and other British-linked people who are detained in camps in Syria should be repatriated, a major review of UK counterterrorism policy has said. The report, by an independent commission, […]
(France 24) The deadly Paris attacks of November 13, 2015, led to a sea change in France’s counter-terrorism strategy. A decade later, there is a larger focus on preventing radicalisation and the mechanisms behind it are better understood. But today the threat […]
(Syriac Press) In a landmark ruling that underscores Europe’s growing pursuit of accountability for atrocities committed during the rise of the Islamic State, Sweden’s Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of Lina Ishaq, a 52-year-old woman of Iraqi-Christian origin, for genocide, […]
(AFP) A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., […]
(AFP) French magistrates were Monday investigating the ex-girlfriend of a man jailed for the deadly November 13, 2015, Paris attacks over an alleged jihadist plot, prosecutors said. But Salah Abdeslam himself was not involved in any plot, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office […]
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