(AP) An Austrian court on Friday convicted an acquaintance of the main suspect in last year’s foiled plan to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna on terrorism charges unrelated to the plot and sentenced him to two years in prison. The state […]
(Euronews) Since demonstrations in Berlin and Düsseldorf turned violent when supporters of Syria’s new government clashed with pro-Kurdish demonstrators, discussions surrounding radical Islamism in Germany have been on the rise. At the protests last weekend, people celebrated the wave of attacks on […]
(European Conservative) In front of Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of the city’s mayor, nearly 400 men — many of them reportedly Syrian refugees — publicly celebrated the recent massacres committed against the Druze community in Syria. Eyewitnesses report […]
(European Conservative) An 18-year-old man with Macedonian roots has been arrested in Austria on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks against “Western institutions.” The radicalized youth, reportedly born and raised in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district of Upper Styria, was apprehended on Sunday, July 20th, […]
(Remix News) Despite claims of the alleged grave threat of “right-wing extremism” presented by the media and the political left in Germany, the data tells another story. In the first half of 2025, a staggering 99 percent of new proceedings initiated by […]
(Global News) A Montreal woman was handed a one-day sentence on Monday after admitting she traveled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State. Oumaima Chouay is the first of several Canadian women who were captured in Syria during the war […]
(NL Times) A 31-year-old man from Tajikistan was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Monday for recruiting members for Islamic State (IS) across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, to allegedly prepare attacks. The Rotterdam court said the man […]
(LBC) A man has been found guilty of travelling to Syria to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaida for jihad. Isa Giga, 32, resigned from his job as a technical support consultant … at a technology firm and bought […]
(BBC) A teenage Islamic extremist has pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist gun attack. Muhammad Billal, 18, was arrested on 11 February and charged with two counts of preparation of terrorist acts, relating to an alleged gun attack plan and travelling to […]
(European Conservative) A 15-year-old boy accused of planning a terrorist attack on Vienna’s Westbahnhof station is due to appear before the Vienna Regional Court on Monday under tight security. The teenager, described as a suspected supporter of the Islamic State (IS), has […]
(Sky News) The Prevent scheme needs to “rapidly” adapt to the online world “where so much radicalisation takes place,” an independent review has found. The anti-extremism programme has been under increased scrutiny after two recent terror incidents involving Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana […]
(Sky News) A man has been jailed after posting threats on TikTok that sparked an international alert that ISIS was planning attacks on football stadiums hosting Champions League games. The Spanish interior ministry announced an “extraordinary” security response for the match featuring […]
(DPA) Nearly a year after three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna were cancelled for fear of a terrorist attack, the trial of a suspected Islamic State supporter began in Berlin on Monday. The now 15-year-old is alleged to have helped with preparations […]
(European Conservative) Austrian prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against Maria G., an Austrian national who left the country as a teenager to join ISIS in Syria. The Salzburg Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Monday that she has been charged with crimes committed […]
(RTL) At the State Court on Monday morning, the judges handed down a life sentence to Steve Duarte, Portuguese national and former Luxembourg resident, in absentia. Prosecutors had requested the maximum punishment, and the court agreed. Duarte, who lived in Luxembourg until 2014, […]
(Sky News) A “serious blunder” by officials meant they failed to disrupt a murder plot against an imam by Islamic State (IS) extremists, an inquiry has found. Father-of-seven Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Rochdale in February […]
(Luxembourg Times) Three Islamist terrorists from Luxembourg who left the country to go and fight for the Islamic State group have been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in the capital on Thursday. However, it remains highly unlikely that […]
(Detroit News) A Detroit man on Tuesday admitted concealing cryptocurrency donations he planned to make to the Islamic State and faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Jibreel Pratt, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of concealing material support to a […]
(GB News) The Muslim Council of Britain’s media monitoring unit “acted in bad faith” by trying to suppress accurate reporting about terrorism and risks curtailing press freedom, a bombshell report has claimed. Policy Exchange tonight released its 94-page report, titled “Bad Faith […]
(National-UAE) The French government on Monday said it would take new measures to tackle the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in France, including the disbanding of endowment funds and a new asset-freeze mechanism. An official 74-page report on the Muslim Brotherhood “required more ambitious […]
(NL Times) Dutch prosecutors have demanded an eight-year prison sentence for a 31-year-old man from Tajikistan accused of recruiting Dutch citizens and others in multiple countries to join Islamic State groups. The man, identified as Abdusamad A., is alleged by the Public […]
(AP) Swiss federal prosecutors on Monday announced an indictment of a Kosovar and a Swiss-Macedonian dual national on terrorism-related charges and spreading the ideology of the banned extremist group Islamic State. The 36-year-old Kosovar and the 33-year-old dual national, who were not […]
(Yabiladi) Italian police have arrested a 24-year-old Moroccan national in Bergamo for promoting jihadist propaganda online. The man, who had over 5,000 followers on Facebook, is accused of inciting terrorism through reels and posts “glorifying armed jihad and suicide attacks carried out […]
(Surrey Now-Leader) A man accused of slashing a Surrey bus rider’s throat on April 1, 2023, on behalf of the Islamic State will find out on July 10 when he’ll be sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. Justice Miriam Gropper […]
(TVP) A 17-year-old from the southeastern Podkarpackie province who promoted Islamic terror online has been charged with preparing a mass attack, say prosecutors. The youth is charged with preparing a mass attack against a group of people based on their religious or […]
(Yabiladi) French far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is scheduled to stand trial on September 2, 2025, for defamation against the association Valeurs et Réussite, which runs an independent Muslim school in Valence. According to AFP, citing a source close to the case and […]
(Chicago Tribune) Nearly seven years after the feds raided his Northwest Side home, a Chicago IT specialist was convicted Friday of helping the Islamic State terrorist group through a media campaign that encouraged attacks, celebrated beheadings and other gruesome violence and taunted […]
(Brussels Times) A Syrian national, aged 28, was sentenced by the Liège Criminal Court on Friday to 40 months in prison and an €8,000 fine for participating in the activities of a terrorist group. The man’s activities, committed between September 2023 and […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Friday they had filed charges against a Syrian youth and alleged Islamic State group supporter linked to a 2024 attack plot on a Vienna concert by US pop megastar Taylor Swift. The suspect, only partially named as Mohammad A., […]
(Brussels Times) Swedish jihadist Osama Krayem has shown no empathy or remorse during his trial in Stockholm for his alleged involvement in the execution of Muath Al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot who was burned alive in a cage in Syria, the lawyer for […]
(AFP) A Syrian migrant accused of stabbing four people outside a bar in the German city of Bielefeld was a member of the Islamic State group, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Mahmoud M., 35, is accused of randomly attacking customers […]
(AP) Czech authorities have detained five teenagers for being radicalized online by the militant Islamic State group and charged two of them with terror-related crimes over an attempt to set fire to a synagogue, officials said Wednesday. Břetislav Brejcha, the director of […]
(Stockton Record) Federal agents arrested a Central Valley man Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to provide aid to ISIS in the form of guns, equipment, and money, authorities said. Ammaad Akhtar, 33, of Stockton, has been charged with attempting to provide material […]
(Daily Signal) A member of Congress introduced a bill Tuesday asking the secretary of state to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization. The Council on American-Islamic Relations brands itself as a 501(c)(3) Muslim civil rights and advocacy group […]
(Local) French prosecutors have charged and remanded in custody a 17-year-old Islamic State group sympathiser suspected of planning attacks on synagogues, sex shops and public gatherings, the national anti-terror office said on Sunday. “He was not yet at the stage of carrying […]
(Daily Caller) Dr. Yasir Qadhi, a radical imam, told his fellow Muslims to side with Iran over the U.S. and Israel during a lengthy sermon on Saturday at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. Qadhi accused Israel of being a […]
(France 24) A French court on Saturday upheld a life sentence for a man convicted for his part in the 2016 killing of a police couple at their home in front of their young child. In 2023, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, a Franco-Moroccan, […]
(DPA) Two young brothers and a third man are facing charges over allegations they planned or supported an Islamist terrorist attack in Germany, authorities announced on Friday. Two of the suspects are German-Lebanese brothers, aged 21 and 15, who reside in the […]
(CBC) A father and son accused of planning an ISIS-inspired mass murder in Toronto have been ordered to stand trial next year. Lawyers for Ahmed and Mostafa Eldidi appeared in Superior Court in Newmarket, Ont., this morning. The court scheduled a six-week […]
(BBC) A man has admitted distributing terrorist materials and encouraging support for the Islamic State group. Abdullah Bellil, 29, was arrested at his home in East Street, Southampton, in December. He pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to four counts of sharing […]
(Yabiladi) A 20-year-old Moroccan man has been arrested in Italy by the Carabinieri’s ROS unit on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization, Italian news agency Italpress reported on Wednesday. Acting on orders from the Perugia Court, following a probe by the […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court, charged with belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group. Musa Abdrabba, 23, from Worcester, is accused of being a member of the proscribed militant organisation between January 2023 and December 2024, and also professing to […]
(NL Times) There is still a realistic chance of a terrorist attack occurring in the Netherlands, the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) reported on Tuesday in the half-yearly report on this matter. Previous concerns were repeated in the report, including […]
(RTL) Friday marked the second day of the trial against the IS fighter, who stands accused of terrorism and murder, among other charges. The Portuguese national, who lived in Luxembourg until 2014, was not present at the court in Luxembourg City — […]
(AP) An Afghan man in Oklahoma accused of planning an Election Day attack in the U.S. on behalf of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism-related charges in federal court. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, pleaded guilty to two offenses: conspiring […]
(KFOR) A 20-year-old Blanchard man is facing up to 45 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to plotting a terrorist attack inspired by ISIS and downloading child pornography, while living a double life his family was seemingly unaware of. Federal court […]
(amNY) A Canadian resident accused of plotting a mass shooting of Jewish people in New York City in support of ISIS pleaded not guilty to two federal charges on Thursday. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was arraigned June 12 before Judge Paul Gardephe […]
(RTL) A case against four individuals accused of participating in terrorist activity began on Thursday, although with one unusual detail — all four were absent, with three presumed dead. All four defendants are accused of having links to terrorist organisation IS, particularly […]
(Belga) 18 per cent of the threat reports received by the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) in 2024 involved minors. There is also “rapid radicalisation among minors,” the organisation says in its annual report published on Thursday. According to CUTA, the […]
(amNY) A Canadian resident accused of plotting a mass shooting to “slaughter” Jewish people in New York City in support of ISIS remains in federal custody following a brief court appearance Wednesday, with his arraignment scheduled for Thursday. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, […]
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