(AP) A Texas man convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State group was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in federal prison after the government appealed his previous sentence, saying it was too lenient. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Eskridge in […]
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(JTA) A Muslim civil rights leader who stirred outrage when she said “polite Zionists” like Jewish federations “are not your friends” continued her critique of “Zionists” as she announced that she is going on a sabbatical. “I am still in the middle […]
(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A man who came to Kentucky as a refugee has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organization. Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 31, has dual U.S. and Bosnian citizenship and lived in Bowling Green, according to a news […]
(National-UAE) Jailed ISIS fighters in Europe may have been radicalised further in prison by the time they are released, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has said. Thomas Haldenwang sounded the alarm over extremists due to be released in 2022 after […]
(Politico) Photos of beheadings, extremist propaganda and violent hate speech related to Islamic State and the Taliban were shared for months within Facebook groups over the past year despite the social networking giant’s claims it had increased efforts to remove such content. […]
(Deutsche Welle) The bells of Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Breitscheidplatz will ring 13 times this Sunday at exactly 8:02 p.m., once for each of the victims of the 2016 terror attack at a nearby Christmas market. The time marks the […]
(Radio France) In the final week of hearings before the winter break, the special criminal court in Paris heard from the relatives of some of the dead terrorists involved in the November 2015 attacks. A senior police investigator, meanwhile, warned that similar […]
(Radio France) Patrick Calvar spent 25 years of his policing career fighting terrorism. He was head of the French Interior Security Division between 2012 and 2017. On Friday, he told the special criminal court trying those suspected of complicity in the November […]
(Times of San Diego) A former San Diego resident pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges for providing money and other resources to support terrorist activities in Syria. Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi admitted in San Diego federal court to wiring funds to people for […]
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(Radio France) Only two of the three witnesses called on Thursday actually gave evidence. Both were associates of the Abdeslam brothers at their café in Brussels. Both spoke by videolink from the federal police building in the Belgian capital. Neither had much […]
(BBC) A woman convicted of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group says she “regrets everything” about it. Tareena Shakil, from Birmingham, was jailed in 2016 when she returned to the UK after three months with IS. The 32-year-old said […]
(Luxembourg Times) Two Islamic State supporters from Luxembourg were sentenced on Thursday to a combined total of more than five years in prison for spreading propaganda by the terrorist organisation, in the first such trial in the Grand Duchy. The public prosecutor’s […]
(Radio France) This has been the week of the Clain family at the Paris attacks trial. On Tuesday, a police witness described the careers of Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain, directors of the IS propaganda effort, both presumed dead in Syria. On Wednesday, […]
(Radio France) Tuesday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was dominated by a police report on the Clain family of jihadist extremists. The court also heard from the father of a dead terrorist, another man mystified by the transformation of … his […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Ohio chapter of a national Muslim-American advocacy and civil rights group announced on Tuesday that its director was working with a national anti-Muslim group and had been for years. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim advocacy and civil rights […]
(Detroit News) A federal judge Monday refused to suppress texts and statements made to federal agents by an accused Islamic State fighter from Dearborn captured on a Syrian battlefield three years ago, dealing a setback to the defense of a rare foreign fighter […]
(BBC) Salman Abedi punching a female student after a row about her wearing a short skirt could have been a red flag to his radicalisation, an inquiry has heard. Abedi, who killed 22 people in the Manchester Arena bombing, hit the girl […]
(Radio France) There is a problem. Now that the families of the deceased terrorists and other accused are giving evidence at the Paris attacks trial, the court is faced with the emotional dilemma of fathers, brothers, sisters who must condemn the barbarous […]
(Kathimerini) A 39-year-old Iraqi who was arrested in central Athens on Tuesday on migrant trafficking charges is on a list of Islamic terrorism suspects, state officials have confirmed to Kathimerini. Mohammed T. was arrested with an Egyptian, nicknamed “Abu George,” in an […]
(Global News) A Toronto man known as the voice of ISIS pleaded guilty to terrorism on Friday, admitting in a U.S. court he executed two Syrian soldiers. Mohammed Khalifa faces a possible life sentence after pleading guilty to providing material resources to […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) suspects former Hofstadgroep member Samir A. of asking terrorist organization ISIS for explosives or weapons for an attack in the Netherlands in 2017. That became clear in the court of Rotterdam on Friday. The 35-year-old […]
(Daily Telegraph) Australia’s most dangerous terrorist, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, will appear in court on Thursday, as authorities review the continuing detention order which is keeping him in jail despite him completing his 15-year jail term. The automatic review of his order, the […]
(ITV) A “dangerous” man who was found to have a “colossal” amount of extremist propaganda on his computer and phone has been jailed for terrorism offences. Counter-terrorism police believe the material owned by Wissam Tariq Mahmoud Ziad, which supported extremist group Daesh […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s session of the Paris terror trial was devoted to Belgian police evidence on the backgrounds of Abdellah Chouaa and Ali Oulkadi, two of the accused who are not in police custody and who sit near, but not inside, the […]
(BBC) Hashem Abedi, who was jailed for his part in the Manchester Arena attack, was probably “more influential” than the bomber, an inquiry has heard. Abedi, who is serving a life sentence, helped organise the attack his brother Salman carried out in […]
(AFP) The trial of 10 men accused of involvement in bombing attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people in 2016 will begin in October next year, a Belgian court said Wednesday. Six of the suspects, including French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are already on […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss authorities have negotiated the release of two half-sisters, aged 15 and nine, from a Kurdish-controlled camp in Syria back to Switzerland. They were taken from Geneva to Syria by their mother in 2016 when she joined the Islamic […]
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(Radio France) If there is no doubt about the central part played in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks by Oussama Atar, the role of his brother, Yassine, remains much less clear. On Friday, a Belgian police officer presented as much evidence […]
(Catalan News) Spanish police detained an alleged jihadist in the seaside town of Cambrils, in southern Catalonia, on Wednesday, as was announced this Friday. He had purportedly been trying to entice new followers using social media. According to authorities, he was in […]
(Age) A self-described “soldier of Islamic State” who stabbed another woman in prison has been sentenced for a second terrorist act and had her jail term increased to 48 years. Momena Shoma was less than three years into a marathon stretch at […]
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial continued on Thursday with Belgian police giving evidence on the terrorist career of Oussama Atar, mastermind of the November 2015 murders that cost 131 people their lives. Atar himself is presumed dead in a coalition air […]
(Euro Weekly) A 25-year-old Tunisian man, believed to be a member of an ISIS terrorist [cell], has been captured and arrested by the police in Venice, Italy, within the last hour (December 2). The man has been on the run and had […]
(Radio France) Wednesday, the 52nd day of the trial of 20 men suspected of involvement in the November 2015 Paris massacres, was devoted to Belgian police evidence, relaid by videolink from the office of the attorney general in Brussels. Four of the […]
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with police evidence from Brussels on the background and Syrian activities of Mohamed Abrini. Abrini did not hear what was said about him, since he is one of five accused who continue to […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) The black and white flag of terrorist group Islamic State has been displayed 305 times in NSW since 2015, according to internal police data on incidents and reports. The number of recorded displays of the flag peaked at 142 […]
(Toronto Sun) The family of a man currently held in a Kurdish prison in northern Syria is disputing the description of him as a terrorist. A spokesperson for John and Sally Letts took issue with the term terrorist being applied to Jack […]
(Anadolu) Former members of the Daesh/ISIS terror group and their families in camps and prisons of northeastern Syria mean “a ticking bomb” for European security, the EU’s new counter-terrorism chief said on Tuesday. Speaking for the first time at the European Parliament’s […]
(Deutsche Welle) Frankfurt’s Higher Regional Court on Tuesday found 29-year-old Taha A.-J. guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity resulting in death, sentencing him to life in prison. The Frankfurt case is the first in the world to decide whether a former member […]
(Toronto Sun) The parents of British-born terrorist Jihadi Jack are seeking the help of politicians in this country to get him sprung from a Syrian prison to live a life of freedom in Canada. Emails obtained exclusively by the Toronto Sun show […]
(AFP) At home in the Finnish capital, Ilona Taimela scrolls through hundreds of WhatsApp chats with her former pupils — pictures of animals, maths sums and simple sentences in English and Finnish. The teacher last year gave lessons to Finnish children imprisoned […]
(Euronews) An unprecedented trial is due to end on Tuesday in Frankfurt, Germany. Taha Al-J. is the first alleged jihadist prosecuted for genocide against the Yazidis. The Kurdish-speaking minority was persecuted and enslaved by members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Düsseldorf court has sentenced a German national to 10 years behind bars for murder on Friday. The man, named as Nils D. under German privacy laws, tortured a man to death at a prison run by the so-called “Islamic […]
(Radio France) The official aim of Friday’s session of the Paris attacks trial was to hear evidence from Belgian police investigators on the backgrounds of two of the dead terrorists and one other suspect. The hearing was, however, marked by the refusal […]
(Calgary Herald) A Canadian woman who returned to Canada from Iraq earlier this week will face a two-day hearing in March to determine if there are grounds she may pose a terrorism threat. Lawyer Yoav Niv appeared in Calgary provincial court Friday […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s evidence at the Paris attacks trial focused for the second successive day on Adel Haddadi and Muhammed Usman, both accused of planning a terrorist action in France. They were stopped by Austrian police as they tried to cross Europe. […]
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