(Global News) A B.C. woman who returned home from Syria last year was part of the all-female battalion of the Islamic State, according to RCMP allegations unsealed on Tuesday. Kimberly Polman served in the Katibah Nusaybah, an ISIS branch that provided weapons […]
(EUobserver) Sweden has called for an EU immigration crackdown to stop terrorism, with a right-wing slant on Muslims that risks sharpening division. EU ministers should discuss in December how to prevent attacks such as the killing of two Swedish football fans by […]
(WMTW) Xavier Pelkey, a 19-year-old from Waterville, was sentenced Monday to the maximum 15 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for conspiring to provide material support to the terrorism group ISIS, the first case of its kind […]
(NCA NewsWire) A legal battle to bring a group of Australian women and their children stuck in a refugee camp in Syria back home to Australia has been rejected by the Federal Court. A group of 20 Australian children and 11 women […]
(European Conservative) A suspected sympathiser of the Islamic State who murdered a 35-year-old man on the streets of the German city of Duisburg earlier this year has admitted he carried out the deadly knife attack on orders from the terrorist group to […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration tapped an anti-Israel advocacy group that accuses the Jewish state of genocide to participate in a forum on the surge in hate crimes following Hamas’s attacks. The Arab American Institute joined the Justice Department’s “United Against Hate” […]
(Times of Malta) A Syrian man arrested following a magisterial inquiry into reports of terrorism-related activity in Malta transferred some €2.5 million to 13 countries in two years, an investigation has revealed. A money laundering inspector testified that the transfers were multi-national, […]
(JTA) Police in at least three European countries have arrested people they said were threatening or planning terror attacks related to the Israel-Hamas war. The arrests come amid a global spike in antisemitic incidents following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that […]
(AP) FBI Director Christopher Wray warned on Tuesday that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the U.S., telling lawmakers that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks. “We assess that the […]
(Hill) FBI Director Christopher Wray said the U.S. is seeing “historic” levels of antisemitism, with actions targeting the Jewish community after the Hamas-Israel war adding to a threat level for Jews that has spiked in recent years. “The reality is that the […]
(Brussels Times) As a new suspect was arrested for his possible involvement in the recent shooting in Brussels, and the violence between Israel and Hamas continues, Belgium is expected to remain at terrorism threat level 3 for “some time.” Two Swedish citizens […]
(ITV) A staff member plotted a “lone wolf” terror attack against the hospital where he worked and an RAF base after becoming radicalised online, a court has heard. Clinical support worker Mohammad Farooq, 28, took a viable bomb made from a pressure […]
(Radio France) Teachers at the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras in northern France had twice reported Mohammed Mogouchkov to authorities when he was a student there. But he remained at the school and graduated, and on 13 October he stabbed to death a […]
(Euronews) Just a week ago, Abdesalem Lassoued plunged the city of Brussels into chaos. Not even his wife or his closest friends knew that the Tunisian, who was in Belgium illegally, was about to commit an act of terrorism. After he shot […]
(Dutch News) In total, 13 people who have a conviction for being a member of a terrorist organisation have been granted an official certificate of good behaviour, or VOG, over the past four years, legal protection minister Franc Weerwind told MPs on Thursday. Some […]
(Politico) Federal law enforcement officials warned on Wednesday that Israel’s ongoing war with Palestinian militants could encourage more hate crimes in the U.S. In a public service announcement released Wednesday night, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it “has seen an increase […]
(CNN) US authorities have begun a new effort to target fundraising and other forms of support for Hamas, including any tentacles the terrorist group has into the United States, current and former US officials tell CNN. The move is part of a broader reassessment […]
(AFP) German counter-terror authorities Wednesday took over a probe into a suspected jihadist arrested for allegedly planning an attack, with a pro-Israel demonstration a possible target, prosecutors said. The 29-year-old was detained late Tuesday at his home in the western city of […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police in the western German city of Duisburg on Tuesday arrested a man who was allegedly planning a terror attack, multiple German media outlets reported. The man was supposedly planning to attack a pro-Israel demonstration with a truck to which he […]
(Sky News) The decision to remove Shamima Begum’s British citizenship was “unlawful,” a court has heard, as her latest appeal against the decision begins. Ms Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 to join Islamic State, when she was aged 15, and her […]
(Olive Press) The largest recruiter of jihadist terrorists in Europe was arrested by Spanish police today. Mustafa Maya Amaya was caught during an anti-terror operation by the Policia Nacional in Melilla. Amaya, a Spaniard of Belgian origin who converted to Islam, is […]
(JNS) Three teenagers have been arrested in France and a fourth in Belgium for planning a terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy in Uccle, a municipality of Brussels. On Aug. 31, a French judge indicted for “criminal terrorist association” two high school […]
(Deutsche Welle) The trial of a 27-year-old Syrian man accused of murder and attempted murder began at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday. Federal prosecutors, who took over the case on August […]
(AP) A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State group-inspired attacks at an airport and at a shopping and entertainment complex in […]
(Daily Wire) A new poll released late last week found that the majority of Muslim Americans believes that Hamas was “justified” in committing terrorist attacks against Israel. The poll from Cygnal surveyed over 2,000 people from October 16-18 to gauge the public’s […]
(i24) French intelligence services have thwarted a terrorist cell that was planning attacks against the Jewish community, according to information reported Saturday by Le Parisien. Made up of young adults, of various nationalities, connected by encrypted messaging and video games, the cell […]
(Breitbart) An estimated 100,000 people joined a pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday, including supporters of radical Islam and far-left groups such as Antifa and various socialist organisations. The Metropolitan Police said that up to 100,000 people joined a rally to support […]
(Swiss Info) The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has opened an investigation into suspected Swiss financing of Palestinian militant group Hamas. “The criminal investigation was opened a few weeks ago, shortly before the Hamas attack in Israel,” Attorney General Stefan Blättler […]
(WATE) Following an eight-day trial, a jury has convicted Benjamin Carpenter, 31, from Knoxville of attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Carpenter is a United States citizen and according to court documents, he was the leader of Ahlut-Tawhid Publications, an international […]
(European Conservative) Police in the French city of Nantes have arrested a man in relation to the Brussels terrorist attack earlier this week which saw two Swedes shot and killed by Tunisian illegal immigrant and radical Islamist Abdesalem Lassoued, who was shot […]
(AP) Belgium’s justice minister resigned on Friday over what he described as a “monumental error” after it was discovered that Tunisia was seeking the extradition last year of an Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes and wounded a third this week. […]
(CBC) RCMP and Calgary police have arrested a third person in connection with an “ongoing investigation” into terrorism-related offences. A 15-year-old boy is the latest person to be arrested in the national security investigation and the second youth. He has since been […]
(Euractiv) According to an investigation, leisure centres, preschools, and social services are among the places where former ISIS jihadists are now working, prompting Liberal Education Minister Lotta Edholm to call Sweden’s policy on the return and control of former Swedish Islamist fighters […]
(Politico) Outside Sweden’s national sports arena, two framed football shirts sit beneath a flag at half-mast, a memorial to the two fans killed by a terrorist in Brussels on Monday night, and a reminder to passers-by to be vigilant for follow-up attacks. […]
(AP) Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he chased two Swedish men into a building in Brussels this week and gunned them down at close range with a semiautomatic rifle. The 45-year-old Tunisian arrived on […]
(ABC) With two deadly acts of terrorism confirmed in Western Europe in the last six days, the European Union’s top law enforcement official said she is worried about what might happen in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s […]
(Local) Spain’s far-right party Vox has formally proposed that people “of Islamic cultures” be prevented from gaining Spanish citizenship or residency following the terror attacks in Belgium, France and Hamas’s incursion into Israel. Vox wants to prevent any more Muslims from becoming […]
(Reuters) The leaders of Belgium and Sweden and the European Union’s chief executive promised on Wednesday to tighten border security and step up repatriations after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels. They spoke after […]
(National-UAE) The Court of Appeal will hear Shamima Begum’s legal fight over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship next week. The 24-year-old was stripped of her citizenship on national security grounds at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which she […]
(CBC) A Canadian woman whose marriage to a notorious ISIS fighter is being made public for the first time says she was “oblivious to what was going on” when she lived with him in Syria. In an interview with CBC and U.K. public […]
(AP) A former New York stock broker who fled his job and family to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Syria, then maintained his allegiance to the extremist group throughout his trial, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. Ruslan Maratovich […]
(Reuters) Europe is seeing a rise of “Islamist terrorism” and all states are threatened, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a visit to Albania, after Islamist killings of a teacher in France and two Swedish football fans in Belgium. Macron […]
(AP) The killing of two Swedish citizens in an attack ahead of a soccer match in Brussels has shocked the Scandinavian country, although the government has been warning for months that Swedes were at greater risk since a recent string of public […]
(AP) Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national on Tuesday hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them, and posted a video online in which he claimed credit for the attack […]
(NL Times) A woman convicted for belonging to the terrorist organization Islamic State worked for the Dutch refugee council Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland for a year. The 39-year-old woman volunteered as a legal assistant at the organization and had access to refugees’ personal files, […]
(Reuters) Italy on Tuesday arrested an Egyptian and an Italian citizen of Egyptian origin on suspicion of terrorism offences and being members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, the Milan prosecutors’ office said. Prosecutors said the two were arrested in the […]
(Fox) Two Iranians who are “raising red flags that they could pose a significant security threat” have been captured over the past two weeks at the American border, sources with U.S. Customs and Border Protection tell Fox News. The identities of both Iranians […]
(Reuters) Two Swedish nationals were shot to death and a third person was wounded in central Brussels on Monday night, and a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. The suspected […]
(ITV) A former drug dealer, alleged to be the fourth member of the so-called ISIS “Beatles” kidnap gang, has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, after a failed bid by the home secretary to have him sent to the US. Aine Davis, 39, […]
(NY Post) Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators swarmed the streets of Manhattan Friday — including some who set fire to an Israeli flag near the United Nations — the same day an ex-Hamas leader issued a rallying cry for a global “day of jihad.” […]
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