(Stars and Stripes) An Indiana man who teamed up with his brother to try and sell arms to the Islamic State group has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his crimes, the Justice Department said. Moyad Dannon’s sentence […]
(NL Times) The terrorist threat level was increased to the second-highest point on Tuesday, with a warning of a “real chance” of an attack, the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) wrote in a report. The threat level was increased to […]
(Kurdistan 24) The Kurdish-led civilian Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)’s Foreign Relations Department announced on Tuesday that they recently handed over a woman and five children to a delegation from the United Kingdom. In a video statement read by […]
(Calgary Herald) The Calgary teen who will be placed on a 12-month terrorism peace bond believed Sharia law dictated that gay people should be executed, court was told Monday. And among the materials found on the now-17-year-old’s electronic devices were videos of […]
(Local) Austrian authorities have arrested a 16-year-old boy from Upper Austria on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack against a synagogue in Vienna. The arrest was made last Thursday, December 7th, and the teenager is in custody. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) […]
(BBC) A 15-year-old boy has been charged with terror offences linked to the so-called Islamic State, police have said. Counter Terrorism Policing North East (CTPNE) said the boy, from Nottingham, had been charged with six counts of dissemination of terrorist publications. He […]
(European Conservative) Swedish authorities have shut down a school in Stockholm after the Swedish security police Säpo produced evidence that the students attending the school were at risk of becoming radicalised as several staff members have ties to jihadism. The Swedish Schools […]
(AFP) Spanish police said Thursday they had arrested a 44-year-old imam who worked as an Arabic teacher and used his position “to radicalise minors” and recruit possible Islamic State (IS) members. The Guardia Civil police force said the suspect was arrested on […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) A suburban man pleaded guilty Wednesday to trafficking drugs and attempting to provide materials to the Islamic State of Iraq in 2019. Jason Brown, 41, was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, one count […]
(Politico) A new generation of French teenagers is being wooed by the Islamic State terrorist group — infamous for its on-camera immolations of captives in Iraq — and seems ominously susceptible to the group’s propaganda, according to the head of France’s DGSI […]
(AP) A man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower was placed under investigation Wednesday on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organization, the prosecutor’s office […]
(Hill) Reported hate crimes have surged since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Tuesday, saying the bulk of the cases targeted Jews. “We’ve been opening I think 60 percent more hate crimes investigations […]
(Euronews) The European Union is facing a “huge risk” of terrorist attacks over the Christmas period, the bloc’s home affairs chief warned on Tuesday. “With the war between Israel and Hamas and the polarisation it causes in our society, with the upcoming […]
(Deutsche Welle) A handful of isolated but high-profile incidents have put politically motivated crime high on Germany’s security agenda. The renewed fears follow a German tourist getting stabbed to death in Paris last weekend, allegedly by a man with a history of criminal […]
(AFP) There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France’s interior minister said Monday. The attack close […]
(Local) Five individuals accused of helping Vienna’s terrorist attacker in November 2020 will get a partial retrial after the Austrian Supreme Court overturned their convictions. The trial against five accused of helping the Vienna terrorist attacker who killed four people on November […]
(Reuters) Two people have been arrested in Italy for spreading online terrorist propaganda linked to militant groups Palestine Islamic Jihad, Islamic State and al-Qaeda, police in the northern city of Brescia said Monday. The suspects are a Pakistani national and an Italian […]
(Arab News) The children of British Daesh brides are being returned to the UK from Syrian detention camps and put up for adoption, the Times reported. At least 10 children — mainly orphans or those who have been left unaccompanied — have […]
(AFP) The man who stabbed a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video posted to social media, French anti-terrorist prosecutors said Sunday. Known to the authorities as a radicalised Islamist […]
(ABC-Australia) A 16-year-old schoolboy is now eligible to apply for parole after pleading guilty to multiple terrorism offences, including possessing “extremely graphic and quite disturbing” videos. The boy, who was aged 14 at the time of the offending and cannot be named […]
(CBC) A Calgary man who purported to be a member of ISIS appeared to be planning to kill gay people participating in local pride events earlier this year, a judge heard during a guilty plea to a terrorism charge Friday. Zakarya Hussein, 20, admitted to […]
(KLAS) Las Vegas police and the FBI thwarted a potential terror plot involving a 16-year-old, police said Friday. During a news conference, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials detailed an investigation into a terror threat on a social media platform. The image […]
(Deutsche Welle) Two German teenagers are accused of plotting a terror attack on a Christmas market in the western German city of Leverkusen, German prosecutors said on Thursday. The suspects, a 15-year-old boy in North Rhine-Westphalia and a 16-year-old boy in the […]
(AP) German authorities said Thursday they had arrested a French woman who allegedly committed war crimes [in] Syria after joining the Islamic State extremist group. Germany’s federal prosecutor said the woman, who was only identified as Samra N. in line with German […]
(BBC) Two boys aged 15 and 16 have been arrested by German authorities on suspicion of planning a militant Islamist attack on a Christmas market or a synagogue. The younger boy, a German-Afghan from the western town of Burscheid, was detained after […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the [Constitution] (BfV) on Wednesday said the danger of an Islamist terror attack on German soil had significantly increased. The agency said the raised risk of attacks against the Jewish community or “the […]
(CBC) A Calgary teenager and his father appeared in court on Tuesday as a hearing date was set for a terrorism peace bond application in connection with an investigation involving a video posted to TikTok. Three people — a 20-year-old and two […]
(Xinhua) Two Brazilian brothers were detained in the town of Estepona in southern Spain on Monday on suspicion of having links with the Islamic State (also known as IS or Daesh). The suspects are accused of spreading Islamic State propaganda material. They […]
(IranWire) A German court has sentenced an Iranian man to four years in prison followed by preventive detention for planning an attack with deadly chemicals. Dirk Kienitz, the presiding judge at the Dortmund regional court, said in his verdict that the 26-year-old […]
(BBC) Two brothers who admitted planning to travel to Afghanistan to join a branch of the Islamic State (IS) have been jailed. Muhammad Abdul Haleem Heyder Khan, 21, and Muhammad Hamzah Heyder Khan, 18, both pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to […]
(Reuters) European security officials are seeing a growing risk of attacks by Islamists radicalised by the Israel-Hamas war, with the biggest threat likely to come from “lone wolf” assailants who are hard to track. More than 10 intelligence and police officials in […]
(BBC) A Nigerian masters student faces jail and deportation after a jury found him guilty of making terrorist threats against Dundee University. Somtochukwu Okwuoha claimed he had enlisted Isis to help bomb the university and told staff he planned to target the […]
(Reuters) Belgium has detained three more suspects over the fatal shooting of two Swedes who were in Brussels to watch a European championship soccer match last month, a prosecutors’ spokesperson said on Wednesday, confirming reports in Belgian media. The three men were […]
(Charter 97) Police have detained a 38-year-old woman who planned to carry out a terrorist attack and planted an improvised explosive device in the center of Warsaw on Independence Day, celebrated on November 11. The detainee was interested in the Islamic State […]
(Malta Today) A court has cleared the way for the indictment of two Syrian nationals on terrorism-related offences, decreeing that there was a case to answer. Farhan Mohammed Sheikh, 29, and 23-year-old Abdullah Aliwi, both from Homs in Syria, are accused of […]
(Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it will not hear the case of four Canadian men held in Syria who argue Ottawa has a legal duty to help them return home. The mother of one of the men said […]
(Ynet) American musician Jesse Hughes, lead singer of the band Eagles of Death Metal, who survived the terrorist attack at the Bataclan Theater in Paris in 2015, sent a video expressing his support to a special solidarity event that took place earlier […]
(Brussels Times) Investigators are looking for witnesses and camera footage related to the terror attack that claimed the lives of two Swedish nationals in Brussels on 16 October. The Federal Police published a search notice on Wednesday at the request of the Brussels […]
(Times of Israel) On a solidarity visit to Israel last month, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to stand by Israel for the duration of its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “I want to assure you that you will not be […]
(NCA NewsWire) A convicted terrorist has had his sentence slashed by six years after a panel of judges found it was “excessive.” Abdullah Chaarani, 33, returned before the Court of Appeal on Monday, showing little reaction as he learnt his appeal was […]
(BBC) A British man who spent two years with Islamic State in Syria and knew the British militant dubbed Jihadi John has been jailed for carrying a weapon for terrorist purposes. Aine Davis was also sentenced at the Old Bailey for fundraising […]
(AP) A Norwegian citizen originally from Iran was charged Friday with aggravated terrorism for the 2022 deadly shooting ahead of an LGBTQ festival in the nightlife district of the capital, Oslo. Two people were killed and nine seriously wounded in the shooting […]
(BBC) A drill rapper has pleaded guilty to possessing chemicals for terrorist purposes. Al-Arfat Hassan bought the chemicals which can be used to make explosives, two knives and a sword and posed with them in a video, talking about looking good for […]
(AFP) Police in Italy said Thursday they had arrested a 37-year-old Algerian man in the Milan subway, later discovering he was wanted by that country for alleged ties to Islamic State. When stopped by police officers for a routine check, the man […]
(AAP) A Melbourne man who admitted setting two bushfires while declaring civilians would be “tasted by the fire of Allah” has been found not guilty of attempting to commit terrorist acts. But jurors found Aran Sherani guilty of doing acts in preparation […]
(Canadian Press) A judge has placed a terrorism peace bond on a British Columbia woman who was repatriated to Canada last year from a Syrian prison camp after she married an ISIS fighter. Chilliwack provincial court Judge Kristen Mundstock has ruled Kimberly […]
(Arab News) Panic buttons will be installed in French schools in a bid to alert police of terrorist attacks, the Times reported. The move follows the murder of a teacher by an Islamist last month, and as tensions surge in the country […]
(National-UAE) An asylum seeker who UK spies believe to be an ISIS supporter has won the right to remain in Britain after judges ruled he is not a threat to national security. The 30-year-old Iranian Kurd, who can’t be named for legal […]
(Courthouse News) One of Denmark’s most spectacular spy court cases came to a preliminary end Wednesday, as the Eastern High Court declined to take up Ahmed Samsam’s lawsuit against the Danish domestic and foreign intelligence services. Samsam, convicted of being an Islamic […]
(BBC) Counter-terrorism police are warning there could be an increased risk of attacks in the UK because of the Israel-Gaza conflict. Reports to the anti-terror hotline between 7-25 October doubled compared to the same period last year. The number of reports containing […]
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