(CBC) A United Nations official is calling on the Canadian government not to repatriate six children from a Syrian detention camp without their mother. The Canadian woman and her children are among many foreign nationals in Kurdish-run camps for ISIS suspects and […]
(NY Times) In 2013, Mirsad Kandic began working with the Islamic State, helping to advance its campaign of global jihad. Over the next four years, he fought in at least one battle and operated from safe houses in Syria, Turkey and Bosnia, […]
(Reuters) An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday. The young man was arrested in southern Poland in June and had collected information and […]
(Tampa Bay Times) A Tampa man who pledged his allegiance to Islamic militants and planned attacks in the Tampa Bay area was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in federal prison. Muhammed Momtaz AlAzhari, 26, pleaded guilty in February to attempting to provide […]
(AFP) Former British rapper and notorious Islamic State suspect Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, who was arrested in Spain in 2020, went on trial in Madrid on Wednesday. The 32-year-old former rapper from west London, who allegedly posted an image of himself holding a […]
(ABC-Australia) A teen who pleaded guilty to terrorist offences and is seeking home detention was recently overheard by a caseworker saying that if he was not in detention for next year’s Anzac Day service “he would do something,” a court has heard. […]
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(BBC) Two brothers have admitted planning a trip to Afghanistan to join a branch of Islamic State (IS). Muhammad Abdul Haleem Heyder Khan, 21, and Muhammad Hamzah Heyder Khan, 18, from Ward End in Birmingham appeared at the city’s crown court on […]
(AP) A German court convicted a Syrian man Tuesday of torturing captives while he was a member of the Islamic State group in Syria. The Berlin regional court found Raed E. guilty of war crimes, membership of a foreign terrorist organization and […]
(ITV) A prisoner has admitted distributing so-called Islamic State radicalisation magazines. Denny De Silva, 31, from Luton, Bedfordshire, pleaded guilty to disseminating two issues of Dabiq magazine in January 2021. The online magazine was used by the so-called Islamic State terrorist group […]
(Calgary Herald) Calgary terrorism suspect Zakarya Rida Hussein will make a bid for freedom on July 17. Law student John Mikhayal appeared in Calgary Court of Justice on Monday on behalf of Hussein and defence counsel Rame Katrib to schedule a bail […]
(Global News) Two Edmonton women were arrested after returning to Canada from a prison camp for ISIS families in Syria, the RCMP confirmed on Friday. Helena Carson and Dina Kalouti were taken into custody upon arriving at Montreal-Trudeau airport. They were transported […]
(AFP) France has repatriated all of the French women and children who want to return home from Kurdish-run jihadist prison camps in Syria and will not be organising any more flights, a diplomatic source said on Friday. Another 10 women and 25 […]
(Global News) Two Edmonton women were returning to Canada on Thursday after the government facilitated their release from a prison camp for ISIS suspects caught in Syria. Global Affairs Canada confirmed the women were being repatriated along with three children. The women […]
(AP) Nine people from Central Asia were arrested in Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday over alleged plans to carry out attacks in Germany and for collecting money for the Islamic State group, authorities said. Seven men arrested in Germany were accused […]
(BBC) Two brothers filled in application forms to join the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, a trial has heard. Muhammad Abdul Haleem Heyder Khan, 21, and 18-year-old Muhammad Hamzah Heyder Khan both deny preparing for acts of terrorism. The prosecution at Birmingham […]
(AFP) France on Tuesday repatriated 10 women and 25 children being held in prison camps for suspected jihadists in northeast Syria, the latest return of citizens amid international pressure to bring back all detained nationals. It was the fourth repatriation operation over […]
(LBC) A drill rapper accused of plotting a terrorist attack in central London has told a court he put on an “extremist Isis” persona to impress women. Prosecutors say Al-Arfat Hassan, who gained a strong following of young Muslims under the name […]
(Houston Chronicle) A Houston man who dreamed, as a teenager, of becoming a martyr for ISIS was sentenced in federal court Thursday to nearly 14 years in prison after admitting he planned to travel to Syria to fight with the jihadist group […]
(LBC) British ISIS terrorists are planning to launch a large-scale attack on UK soil, according to Iraqi intelligence officials. The most senior counter-terrorism leader in Iraq General Abdul Wahab el-Saadi warned that Islamist extremists are plotting to target the UK with a […]
(National-UAE) Swedish court documents show that a Syrian man who attacked toddlers with a knife in a park in south-east France last month served in the Syrian Armed Forces in the early years of the civil war, leading to his citizenship being […]
(AAP) Two men who pleaded guilty to planning a terror attack targeting a mosque in an attempt to impress an Islamic State mentor will spend less time in prison after their 20-year terms were quashed on appeal. The pair pleaded guilty to […]
(Global News) A Montreal woman captured in Syria has been refused government assistance returning to Canada because of the security threat she poses, a lawyer said Monday. Lawrence Greenspon said Global Affairs Canada had advised him that, based on security assessments, the […]
(Copenhagen Post) A major talking point in Denmark over the last couple of years has been the welfare of a fairly large group of Danish mothers with Islamic State ties, along with the children they have mostly given birth to over the […]
(National-UAE) The lawyer of one of the 10 defendants in the trial of an ISIS-claimed double suicide bombing in Brussels in 2016 has made the case that his client is complicit in war crimes. Nicolas Cohen, representing Bilal El [Makhoukhi], argued that […]
(CTV) Alberta RCMP have arrested a Calgary youth as part of a terrorism investigation linked to the arrest of Zakarya Rida Hussein. Hussein faces several terrorism-related charges for allegedly posting a TikTok video that contributed to or facilitated terrorist activity for al […]
(Brussels Times) The Liège Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a 35-year-old man from Verviers to a suspended sentence of three years’ imprisonment for the remainder of his pre-trial detention and a suspended fine of €4,000 for half. The man was found guilty […]
(AP) An Iranian man arrested in western Germany earlier this year after a tip from U.S. officials has been charged with plotting an Islamist attack using ricin or cyanide, German prosecutors said Wednesday. The 26-year-old, identified only as J.J. in line with […]
(Press Release) A 24-year-old man has been jailed for six years as a result of an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, which found that he was sharing Daesh propaganda and terrorist material via social media apps. The investigation into Ismail […]
(AFP) A Turkish citizen appeared in a Swedish court on Tuesday accused of “attempted terrorist financing” of the pro-Kurdish PKK, a first in the Scandinavian country seeking Ankara’s approval to join NATO. Turkey has accused Sweden of being a haven for “terrorists,” […]
(Calgary Herald) Calgary terrorism suspect Zakarya Rida Hussein allegedly posted a TikTok video that either knowingly facilitated a terrorist activity, or participated in or contributed to the activity of ISIS or Al Qaida, court records show. Hussein, 20, faces four terrorism-related charges […]
(AP) Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathized with the extremist Islamic State group. The head of Austria’s domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged […]
(AAP) A legal fight is on to repatriate eight Australian women and their 18 children from a refugee camp in Syria. The group is being detained in the country’s northeast by the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria and its defence arm, […]
(Detroit News) An ISIS soldier from Dearborn captured while fighting alongside the terror group in Syria five years ago was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in federal prison. Prosecutors sought a 35-year sentence, which is more than three times as long as […]
(SBS) The government’s efforts to ban Nazi symbols in public have quietly extended to include the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group’s flag. Last week, the government announced it would move to ban displaying Nazi symbols in public or profiteering from their sale, […]
(NCA NewsWire) One of Australia’s most infamous domestic terrorists has gone to the nation’s highest court in his fight to have his citizenship restored as his potential deportation looms closer. Abdul Nacer Benbrika’s challenge against the legality of the former Morrison government’s […]
(Military Times) An Army private first class has pleaded guilty to plotting the murder of U.S. service members on behalf of the Islamic State, government prosecutors announced Wednesday. The soldier, Cole Bridges, also pleaded guilty to trying to provide material assistance to […]
(Oregonian) A man who immigrated to Oregon from Iraq in 2014 on Tuesday pleaded guilty to advocating for violent jihad through an online Arabic newspaper in support of the Islamic State terrorist group. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 33, who lives in Troutdale, was […]
(AP) Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4-meter)-wide mural, the ringing of church bells and an overnight vigil at the site of […]
(Sky News) A financial analyst from Surrey has been jailed for eight years for terrorism offences after he was caught with a bomb factory in a lock-up when he took his laptop in for repair. Asad Bhatti, 50, from Redhill, who worked […]
(Local) A prosecutor in Sweden has charged a Turkish citizen for attempting to raise money for the Kurdish PKK terror group in a landmark case which could help Sweden win Turkish approval for its Nato membership. Hans Ihrman, deputy chief prosecutor for […]
(Brussels Times) The Antwerp Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced Nora Verhoeven, the repatriated widow of an Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, to 48 months in prison, 18 of them suspended. In 2015, the Brussels woman, then 21 years old, was sentenced in absentia […]
(Boston Herald) Paul Ventura was about to leave his Wakefield home Thursday morning when the FBI showed up looking for his 18-year-old son Mateo. Hours later, the dad opened up to reporters for more than 20 minutes outside the federal courthouse in […]
(BBC) A drill rapper planned a terrorist attack after watching a video from the Islamic State (IS) group showing the killing of prisoners, a court heard. Al-Arfat Hassan used his music to “glorify” IS killings and gained an online following under the […]
(Boston Herald) A Wakefield teenager is accused of buying $1,670 in gift cards to support ISIS and the terrorist organization’s fighters, allegedly sending the gift cards to an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter. Mateo Ventura, 18, who told the […]
(Local) Had information of a potential attack been followed up by intelligence services, a shooting that left two people dead in Oslo last June could have been prevented, a report [on] the incident has found. The attack, which left two people dead […]
(AAP) More than two dozen Australian women and children trapped in dire conditions in Syria could die if they don’t get the help they so desperately [need], a humanitarian group says. The 17 children and nine women demanded to be [repatriated] in […]
(BBC) A 19-year-old man has been given life with a minimum term of six years for planning to stab police and soldiers. Police believe Matthew King, who converted to extreme Islamism during lockdown, could have been hours away from carrying out an […]
(CBC) The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned a high-profile ruling ordering Canada to bring home four Canadian men detained in northeastern Syrian prisons for suspected ISIS members. In January, Federal Court Justice Henry Brown ruled the four men were entitled to […]
(NL Times) The German authorities have identified a Dutch suspect in an extensive investigation into the funding of the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS), the German Public Prosecution Service reported. The Dutch person has not been arrested, but the authorities did raid […]
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