(Sydney Morning Herald) An Australian man accused of supporting and recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Syria has faced court in Melbourne after being deported from Turkey where he had been jailed for links to the terrorist group. Mohamed Zuhbi, 30, had […]
(NCA NewsWire) Accused Islamic State facilitator Mohamed Zuhbi is back on Australian shores after being deported from Turkey. Zuhbi was wanted here and in the US for his alleged role with the terrorist group after leaving Australia eight years ago, bound for […]
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(Detroit News) An accused Islamic State soldier from Dearborn has threatened to kill his lawyer if released on bond, federal prosecutors say, but his legal team is trying to free him anyway. The alleged threat, Ibraheem Musaibli’s support of violent extremism and contempt for the United […]
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(AFP) An Italian court has approved the extradition to France of a man implicated in the deadly Bastille Day attack in Nice in 2016, the AGI news agency reported. Endri Elezi, a 28-year-old Albanian, was arrested on April 21 on a warrant […]
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(Swiss Info) Despite multiple pleas from international bodies, Switzerland refuses to repatriate adult detainees from Syrian camps, a policy that effectively leaves seven Swiss children stranded in the war-torn country. They were just four and nine years old, when in 2016 their […]
(AFP) A Norwegian court on Tuesday sentenced a woman who lived as a housewife in Syria to prison for being a member of the Islamic State group (IS), despite not actively fighting herself. The Oslo court sentenced the Norwegian-Pakistani woman to three […]
(AFP) A French court on Tuesday acquitted far-right leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on charges she broke hate-speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities. Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after Islamic […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government acted lawfully when it stripped six Dutch-Moroccan dual citizens of their Netherlands nationality on allegations that they traveled to Syria to join Islamic extremist group ISIS or other terrorist groups. The Council of State issued a ruling on Friday […]
(Brisbane Times) An Australian man accused of being an ISIS supporter claimed he received a false Venezuelan passport after someone approached him in a shopping centre five years ago, a Brisbane court has heard. Ahmed Luqman Talib, 31, from Doncaster East in […]
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(CBC) Hamilton native Kimberly Polman is among former ISIS brides featured in The Return: Life After ISIS by Alba Sotorra Clua and her Barcelona-based production company, and the filmmaker hopes the new documentary will give insight into the issues surrounding repatriation. Sotorra Clua said the documentary, currently […]
(AP) German prosecutors have charged an Iraqi immigrant with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations that he raised thousands of dollars for the Islamic State group, authorities said Friday. The man, identified only as Aymen A.-J. in line with German privacy […]
(Radio France) French anti-terrorist police have detained eight people in connection with an investigation into a terrorist financing network in Syria. Six men were arrested in a raid in several parts of Strasbourg, in Eastern France, Tuesday morning. Another man was arrested […]
(AFP) Six men suspected of being members of the so-called Islamic State group or funding it were arrested in an anti-terror raid in Denmark on Tuesday, police said. The suspects, whose identities were not disclosed, are aged between 27 and 35, police […]
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(AFP) Thousands of protesters gathered in several French cities and Israel on Sunday to denounce a court’s refusal of a trial for a man who killed a 65-year-old Jewish woman, after experts determined he acted in a “delirious fit” due to heavy […]
(Newsday) A Commack man who federal prosecutors said attempted to travel to Syria to wage “violent jihad” and told investigators that he was “prepared to strap a bomb on and sacrifice himself” pleaded guilty Friday to a single terrorism count. Elvis Redzepagic, […]
(AFP) French police arrested three people linked to a 36-year-old Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee at her workplace southwest of Paris on Friday in a suspected Islamist attack. The murder at a police station in Rambouillet, a commuter […]
(AP) A Berlin court on Friday convicted a German woman of membership in the Islamic State group over her time spent in territory controlled by the extremist group in Syria. The court gave the 34-year-old, identified only as Zeynep G. in line […]
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(Kurdistan 24) A former commander of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group has been sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands for war crimes and membership in a terrorist organization. The Dutch Public Prosecution earlier demanded a 10-year sentence, but […]
(AP) A judge sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant to life in prison Thursday, saying he plotted to carry out a “barbaric and heinous” plot to kill as many people as he could with a suicide bombing attack in New York City’s subway beneath […]
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(National-UAE) Raids on suspected Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas members in Austria last year led to the discovery of an “enemies list” of opponents of political Islam, according to people targeted by the groups. Austrian police carried out dozens of raids in an […]
(Reuters) United Nations human rights experts urged Switzerland on Thursday to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by their mother who joined Islamic State (IS). A senior Swiss foreign […]
(AP) Prosecutors are urging a judge to approve a request to extradite a Phoenix driving school owner to Iraq on allegations that he participated in the killings of two police officers nearly 15 years ago in the Iraqi city of Fallujah as […]
(Sacramento Bee) In a major blow to federal prosecutors, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled Wednesday that Omar Ameen may not be extradited back to Iraq to face trial in the 2014 murder of an Iraqi police officer. The decision came in […]
(AP) A German woman accused of joining the Islamic State group in Syria after traveling there with her young daughter was convicted on Wednesday of participating in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The state court in Duesseldorf sentenced the 35-year-old, whom […]
(Times of Israel) Israel blasted on Tuesday the ruling by France’s highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. “Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole […]
(AP) Italian media say a 28-year-old Albanian wanted in connection with a 2016 truck attack in the French city of Nice that killed 86 people has been arrested in southern Italy. News agency LaPresse said police arrested the suspect, identified as Endri […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron urged a change in French law after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided a trial on the grounds he acted in delirium due to drug-taking, in an interview published Monday. Jewish groups have reacted […]
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(Dutch News) A 32-year-old man from Amsterdam has been sentenced to five months in jail to be followed by compulsory psychiatric treatment for making threats against gay people, Jews and the police on social media but was found not guilty of planning […]
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(AAP) An Australian father of five who travelled to the Middle East as a nurse has pleaded guilty to a terror charge after more than five years of legal arguments. Melbourne nurse Adam Brookman was repatriated to Australia in 2015 after allegedly […]
(Jurist) The Court of Rotterdam announced on Monday that Fatima H. has been sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for her involvement with the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Shaam (ISIS) or Islamic State […]
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(Reuters) The Swiss government on Tuesday defended a new anti-terrorism law that will be put to a nationwide referendum in June and that includes restrictive measures on child suspects. Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, a committee collected signatures to force a […]
(AFP) A Vienna mosque ordered shut after last year’s jihadist attack that left four people dead can reopen, a Moslem community official said Monday. The Tewhid mosque was one of two closed down after authorities found gunman Kujtim Fejzulai, who killed four […]
(AP) A man has been charged in Norway for his alleged role in plans to carry out three extremist attacks in Denmark and in London, and for purportedly spreading Islamic State group propaganda on the internet. Authorities believe the 24-year-old man, who […]
(AP) A Syrian man went on trial Monday accused of killing a German man and seriously injuring another in an attack last year that prosecutors said was motivated by Islamic extremist ideology. The trial of Abdullah A.H.H., whose full name wasn’t released […]
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(AFP) A man who may have been an accomplice in November’s deadly jihadist gun attack in the Austrian capital Vienna has been arrested, prosecutors said on Saturday. Convicted Islamic State sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai killed four people on the evening of November 2 […]
(Chicago Sun-Times) A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Zion man to 13 and a half years in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to support the Islamic State, in part by collecting cellphones he thought could be used as detonators […]
(Breitbart) Six female Islamic State members who have returned to Sweden in the past year after being held in prison camps in Syria are suspected of participating in war crimes. The six women, all members of Islamic State who came back to […]
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