Legal
Concern over struggle to prosecute Isis returnees as Turkey deportations loom (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
News: Europe
Streatham attacker associated with terrorists including Manchester Arena bomber’s brother in prison (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary is kicked off Instagram days after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
A young American girl whose mother joined ISIS and died has been rescued, a former US diplomat says Eight-year-old Aminah Mohamad, the daughter of an American woman from Tennessee who joined ISIS in 2014, awaits her fate outside a Syrian detention camp.
(BuzzFeed) An American-born girl who grew up under ISIS control was rescued from a Syrian detention camp last month after the girl’s mother — a US citizen who left the country and in 2014 joined the terrorist organization — and her father […]
News: Europe
Streatham terror attacker said was ‘not finished with non-believers’ days before release from prison, inquest hears (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
Jihadists flood pro-Trump social network with propaganda GETTR, the new platform started by members of the former president’s inner circle, is awash with beheading videos and extremist content.
(Politico) Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform. The social network — started a month ago […]
Legal
Omarjan Azari: Convicted terrorist won’t stand for a judge despite claiming to have renounced extremism A man jailed for terror offences claims to have renounced his old ways, despite saying he still won’t stand for a judge.
(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man who was jailed for planning to behead a stranger still won’t stand for a judge despite claiming he has renounced his extremist views, a court has heard. Omarjan Azari refused to stand for Justice Natalie Adams in […]
Children & Teens
Albania repatriates 5 women, 14 children from Syria
(AP) Albania is repatriating five Albanian women and 14 children from Syria’s troubled Al Hol camp who were related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, the country’s prime minister said Saturday. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama […]
Health & Medicine
Jihadi bride injured in an allied air attack is given a new arm and a £500,000 council house (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Britain cannot remove Isis members’ citizenship without telling them, High Court rules (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Call to shut down Swedish Islamic school over ‘link to extremism’ Report claims school is being financed by group linked to Muslim Brotherhood
(National-UAE) An Islamic school in Sweden should be shut down because of its “connection to extremism,” a member of the country’s Parliament has said. The Romosseskolan school, in the south-western city of Gothenburg, attracted criticism after it was accused of gender segregation […]
Clerics & Preachers
Moaning hate preacher Anjem Choudary is banned from Twitter just five days after joining (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Man admits sharing Islamic State beheading videos
(BBC) A British man who went to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group has admitted sharing beheading videos. Stefan Aristidou, 27, entered guilty pleas to four terrorism offences at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in September. BBC research […]
Children & Teens
Calls grow for hundreds of European children in Syrian camps to return home Watchdogs say youngsters linked to ISIS lack basic services in detention facilities
(National-UAE) Hundreds of European children are still detained in Syrian ISIS camps, prompting fresh calls for them to be returned home. The youngsters are housed in camps where extremist fighters and their families were held after the defeat of the terrorist group […]
Legal
Austria court orders duo jailed for joining IS in Syria
(AFP) An Austrian court has sentenced two men to jail over their involvement with the Islamic State group in Syria, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, following a high-profile trial in the country that had one of Europe’s largest per capita rates of IS […]
Law Enforcement
Moroccan arrested in Greece on suspicion of being IS member
(AP) A 28-year-old Moroccan man appeared in a court in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing after being arrested on suspicion of being a member of the Islamic State group. The man, who was not identified publicly, […]
Legal
German woman indicted over her time with IS in Syria
(AP) A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group and whose husband bought a Yazidi woman as a slave has been charged with membership in a terror group and being an accessory to a crime against humanity, […]
Children & Teens
From Syria to Belgium: Women to face courts after repatriation with children Six women who are suspected of ties to Islamic State were returned to [Belgium] with children. One tells MEE she was ready to face justice in order to secure her child's safety
(Middle East Eye) On 16 July, the majority of the women and children held at al-Roj camp were still asleep when a convoy of cars entered the open-air prison in northeastern Syria. A few minutes later, at around 5.30am, six Belgian [women] […]
Children & Teens
Govt helping Aden rebuild her life ‘best outcome for everyone’
(Radio NZ) Helping Islamic State-linked Suhayra Aden to resettle into the community with her children will be the best outcome for her and New Zealand, the Islamic Women’s Council says. Aden, who has links to terrorist group Islamic State, is returning from […]
Legal
Amal Clooney lauds German court for conviction of IS member
(AP) High-profile human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad on Monday lauded a German court for convicting a former Islamic State member of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity for her involvement in the enslavement of two […]
Government & Politics
Isis ‘terrorist’ bride Suhayra Aden and her children to return to NZ
(NZ Herald) An Isis “terrorist” bride and her two children will head to New Zealand from Turkey after the New Zealand government agreed to their return. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement on Suhayra Aden — who has been described as […]
Government & Politics
Charges approved against Canadian ISIS fighter detained in Syria, documents reveal
(Global News) Prosecutors have approved charges against a captured Canadian ISIS fighter, according to documents that show how federal officials have dealt with citizens detained in Syria. The approved charges are the first known to have been authorized against a Canadian member […]
Clerics & Preachers
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary compared his time in Britain’s only high-security terror unit to a Monty Python sketch (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Jihadist wanted by Spain found in infamous Brussels no-go zone
(Breitbart) A jihadist wanted by Spain on a European arrest warrant (EAW) has been apprehended by Belgian police in the no-go zone of Molenbeek, Brussels, a notorious hotbed of radical Islamist activity. The 22-year-old jihadist had previously been sentenced to two years […]
Legal
German court sentences IS widow over Yazidi slaves A court in Hamburg has sentenced the widow of an 'Islamic State' terrorist to extra jail time. The woman admitted to using enslaved Yazidi girls to clean her home.
(Deutsche Welle) A German court on Thursday sentenced the woman, Omaima A., to additional jail time for using slave women to clean her home. The 37-year-old, already convicted of belonging to the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group, had already admitted the offense, the […]
Clerics & Preachers
Terror preacher Anjem Choudary calls for release of terrorist hours after his ban on public speaking ends (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Anjem Choudary free to preach again as he gives first public statement since release from prison (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
North Macedonia repatriates 4 IS fighters and their families
(AP) Four suspected former Islamic State group fighters and their families have been successfully repatriated to North Macedonia, the government said Sunday. [The] government said the 23-member group, including five women and 14 children, has been transferred from Syria and Iraq to […]
Clerics & Preachers
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary’s public speaking ban lifted (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
ISIS risk in Europe ‘significantly’ reduced, says EU counter-terrorism coordinator De Kerchove: Cooperation has reduced vulnerabilities
(Politico) Islamic State “no longer has the capacity to send terrorists onto European soil” thanks to “action taken by the international coalition,” the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told Le Monde in an interview published Saturday. However, he warned “the threat […]
Children & Teens
IS mothers and children arrive in Belgium from Syria
(Brussels Times) This morning a military aircraft landed at Melsbroek airfield outside Brussels, carrying six women and ten children repatriated from a refugee camp in Syria. The women, aged between 25 and 53 years, have been held in the Kurdish-run camp Roj […]
Government & Politics
Austria becomes first European country to ban Islamist Muslim Brotherhood
(Breitbart) Austria has become the first country in the European Union to ban the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as part of a new anti-terrorism law. The law bans the Egyptian-founded Muslim Brotherhood by adding it to a list of organisations linked to “religiously […]
Children & Teens
Finland repatriates women and children with links to ISIS from northeast Syria
(Kurdistan 24) Finland is bringing home a family with ties to ISIS from northeast Syria on Friday as part of the government’s efforts to rescue children from violent displacement camps. Ambassador Jussi Tanner, the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s special envoy in charge of […]
Health & Medicine
Suspected Tunisian terrorist on the run from French psychiatric centre caught in Italy Man is being investigated for condoning terrorism and aggravated threats
(National-UAE) Police in Italy have arrested a suspected terrorist who has been on the run since escaping from a psychiatric facility in France. He has been under investigation in France for allegedly condoning the actions of ISIS fanatic Mohamed Merah, who killed […]
Children & Teens
Belgium takes back mothers and children from Syria jihadist camps
(BBC) Ten children and six mothers held in a prison camp for jihadists in Syria have been flown home to Belgium. It is the biggest repatriation of suspected Islamic State (IS) members since the group’s fall in 2019. Hundreds of Europeans who […]
Immigration
Syrian refugee convicted of war crimes in Dutch court Ahmad al Khedr had settled with his family in the small Dutch town of Kapelle before his crimes in Syria were discovered.
(Courthouse News) A Dutch court on Friday found a Syrian asylum-seeker guilty of committing war crimes in Syria and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. The District Court of The Hague found that Ahmad al Khedr had participated in the execution […]
Immigration
Judge weighs sending US citizen accused of killings to Iraq
(AP) A U.S. prosecutor trying to send a Phoenix driving school owner to Iraq to face charges in the 2006 killings of two Iraqi police officers acknowledged Thursday that statements made by people claiming to have witnessed the crimes contained inconsistencies but […]
News: Europe
Guns and pool parties: Secrets of an IS smartphone
(BBC) With access to a smartphone used by three British men who went to fight in Syria — and their social media accounts — journalist Mobeen Azhar investigates what made them join the Islamic State group and what happened to them. An […]
Law Enforcement
German police raid suspected IS supporters Ten warrants were executed across the German state of Hesse on suspicion of financing a terror group. The accused include eight men and two women between the ages of 20 and 51.
(Deutsche Welle) Police in the German state of Hesse searched multiple locations in connection with investigations involving suspected “Islamic State” extremists, local authorities said Wednesday morning. Ten search warrants were executed across the state “on suspicion of terrorist financing and the preparation […]
News: Europe
Wounds still raw in French city Nice, five years after attack
(AFP) For most French people Bastille Day is synonymous with military pomp and parties, but in the southern city of Nice the country’s national holiday also conjures up visions of horror. On Wednesday, the Mediterranean city will pause to mark five years […]
News: Europe
Westway warriors: Isis Beatle ‘recruited 25 fighters for jihad’ (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Texts of Islamist killers spoke of ‘church carnage’ before beheading of French priest
(Breitbart) Text messages of the two Islamist men who murdered Father Jaques Hamel and a “sponsor” in Syria reveal how the terrorists chose to target the elderly priest. Five years after the deadly attack which saw Father Jaques Hamel murdered in his […]
Government & Politics
Austria adopts anti-terrorism laws that put Muslim Brotherhood groups in crosshairs Extremist groups' symbols banned with a €10,000 ... fine for offenders
(National-UAE) Austria has adopted new penalties against the promotion of extremist groups, including those with links to “religiously-motivated crimes,” that will ban the symbols of a range of terrorist groups. The new federal law prohibits the use of symbols representing ISIS, Al […]
Government & Politics
Dutch state given three months to repatriate five more IS women
(Dutch News) The cabinet has been given three months to show it is making an effort to repatriate five Dutch women from Kurdish prison camps in Syria so that they can attend their trials on terrorism charges in person, broadcaster NOS has […]
Clerics & Preachers
Report: Convicted terrorists led religious services in federal prisons Prison officials worry inmate-led services pose security risk
(Free Beacon) Convicted terrorists linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda led religious services at one-third of the federal prisons audited by a federal watchdog, a practice officials say presents safety and security risks. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General […]
Law Enforcement
Vienna terror attack: Police search suspects’ homes in Germany German officials said the raids were carried out in the homes of one German and one Kosovar national.
(Deutsche Welle) German police announced Wednesday they raided the homes of two alleged accomplices of the November 2020 terror attack in Vienna that left four dead and more than 20 injured. The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe said the two accused, […]
Health & Medicine
Foreign fighter agrees to AFP monitoring
(AAP) A convicted foreign fighter has agreed to be monitored 24 hours a day with a tracking device while he reintegrates into the Australian community. Adam Brookman was jailed for more than six-and-a-half years after admitting he supported Chechen fighters on the […]
Government & Politics
Fears IS women could return to NL after escaping Kurdish camps
(Dutch News) Around 15 Dutch women who joined IS forces during the Syrian civil war escaped from Kurdish detention camps in the past year, ministers have admitted. Caretaker foreign affairs minister Sigrid Kaag and defence minister Ank Bijleveld told parliament that around […]
Legal
Isis member convicted for sending Bitcoin from UK to free terrorists from Syrian prisons (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Mother of Canadian woman detained in Syrian camp wants answers after another woman freed Ottawa denies involvement in women’s release from ISIS detention camp
(CBC) The mother of a Canadian woman held in a detention camp for family members of ISIS militants in northeast Syria for four years wants to know why her daughter remains there, after another Canadian woman was released with the help of […]