(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, […]
(RTL) With defendants missing and evidence scattered across war zones, Luxembourg prosecutors will present their terrorism case Thursday against four presumed ISIS affiliates. The Luxembourg City Court will convene a terrorism trial on Thursday against four men accused of supporting ISIS operations […]
(DPA) The former leader of the Islamic State terrorist group in Germany, Abu Walaa, has lost his appeal to avoid deportation. The 41-year-old Iraqi is currently serving a sentence that keep[s] him behind bars until May 2027. Following his release, he is […]
(AFP) Osama Krayem, on trial for the murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive in Syria by the Islamic State (IS) group, on Wednesday refused to answer questions from the prosecution. The brutal killing took place sometime in late 2014 or early […]
(NY Post) The Department of Justice on Tuesday extradited an ISIS supporter living in Canada who had been caught planning a mass shooting attack on a Jewish center in New York that would have coincided with the first anniversary of the Oct. […]
(NY Post) US officials encountered 55 Afghan evacuees on the terrorist watchlist after the Biden administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. The report, released Tuesday, confirmed longstanding suspicions from Republican lawmakers […]
(Morocco World News) Spanish intelligence services are raising alarms over a mounting terrorist threat linked to the Polisario Front, as extremist factions in the Sahel expand their operations and deepen ties to radicalized individuals with European connections. At the heart of the […]
(ABC) Five alleged high-profile terrorist attacks have occurred across the United States in the first six months of 2025, including four that investigators suspect were motivated by the war in Gaza or radicalized by the ISIS terrorist group. But as law enforcement […]
(Proto Thema) A 14-year-old boy suspected of planning a terrorist attack was arrested today in Cologne and is believed to have joined the Islamic State group. Emirhan A. was allegedly planning a terrorist attack in the name of the Islamic State, possibly […]
(NL Times) A Leiden man being held in police custody was accused of being an Islamic State (IS) supporter based on commentary broadcast on social media app Clubhouse, and his alleged participation in groups praising the terrorist organization. The 28-year-old was arrested […]
(Reuters) A Swedish appeals court on Thursday found one man guilty of being a member of a terrorism organisation for swearing loyalty to the Islamic State, upholding the verdict of a lower court, while the conviction[s] of three others were overturned. Sweden’s […]
(Daily Caller) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a suspected Al-Qaida member residing in a city notorious for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Authorities apprehended a Tajikistan-born Russian national in the early morning hours of May 23 in Philadelphia, […]
(AFP) A convicted Swedish jihadist went on trial in Stockholm on Wednesday accused of war crimes for his role in the 2014 killing of a Jordanian pilot who was burned alive in Syria. The case is considered unique as the other jihadists […]
(Detroit News) A Westland man accused of trying to provide material support to the Islamic State terrorist group and possessing a destructive device was convicted of all charges Tuesday after a month-long trial. The verdict in a rare federal terrorism case in […]
(CBC) A federal watchdog agency found a breakdown of ministerial accountability after reviewing a clandestine operation abroad connected to claims a CSIS operative smuggled teenage girls into Syria to join ISIS. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) released a heavily […]
(Reuters) A German court sentenced a Syrian man to life in prison on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes it said he had committed as a leading member of a Hezbollah-backed militia during Syria’s civil war. The Higher Regional Court […]
(European Conservative) Amid a rise in militant Muslim fundamentalism, French facilities for vulnerable children appear to be deliberately targeted by Islamist recruiters, who see them as perfect candidates for radicalisation. This concern comes after reports highlighting other numerous shortcomings of the child […]
(AP) A naturalized U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the Islamic State group was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison. Lirim Sylejmani, 49, engaged in at least one battle against U.S.-led forces after he entered Syria […]
(Euro Weekly) The National Police reported Friday that it arrested two women aged 19 and 21 in the town of Alorcón, in the province of Madrid, charged with allegedly running a terrorist academy. The official statement said the two women were placed […]
(Deutsche Welle) A Syrian man who allegedly knifed three people to death at a street festival in the western city of Solingen last August entered a guilty plea as his trial began in Düsseldorf on Tuesday. Issa Al H., 27, told the […]
(NPR) In a small apartment outside Minneapolis, I’m watching two brown-haired brothers, ages 7 and 9, on a couch playing chess. They’re speaking Arabic sprinkled with English. They stare intently at the board, their little brows furrowed. After a stretch of silence, […]
(AP) A Swedish man was indicted Tuesday in connection with the killing by the Islamic State group of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014, prosecutors said. The 26-year-old Jordanian, 1st Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, was taken […]
(Deutsche Welle) The charges against the four defendants, all Russian nationals, are serious. Appearing at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg on Monday, they will be facing accusations of being members of a foreign criminal organization and of supporting a foreign terrorist […]
(Deutsche Welle) The man accused of a mass stabbing at a festival in the western German city of Solingen is due to face court in the North Rhine-Westphalia capital of Dusseldorf. Federal prosecutors have charged Syrian Issa Al H. with three counts […]
(BBC) A barber who admitted sending propaganda videos from the organisation calling itself Islamic State (IS) to a WhatsApp group has been jailed. Liverpool Crown Court heard one of the videos Mohammed Hamad shared in January 2023 was of three prisoners being […]
(Jerusalem Post) Following long months of bureaucratic processes, the Hamas ban in Switzerland finally came into effect last week. The bill was drawn up by the Swiss government at the request of parliament, following the October 7 attacks. It targets both Hamas […]
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