Islamic State (ISIS) – Page 55

Australia’s first IS bride Zehra Duman and her children have fled to Turkey The Melbourne-born woman — who had her Australian citizenship revoked for joining the terrorist organisation — has left the Al-Hol refugee camp in north-east Syria with her two young children, SBS News can confirm.

September 9, 2020 Lin Evlin

(SBS) IS bride Zehra Duman is currently in a Turkish prison and believed to be under investigation by Turkish authorities. Her four-year-old son and one-year-old daughter are being held at a child protection centre in the Turkish border province of Şanlıurfa where they […]

Australian women, children reportedly removed from Syria’s al-Hawl refugee camp

September 8, 2020 Barbara Miller

(ABC-Australia) Reports are emerging from Syria some Australian women and children have been forcibly removed from the al-Hawl refugee camp, where families of Islamic State fighters are detained. A spokesman for the Australian families said the women were stripsearched and handcuffed before […]

Man accused of making bomb threat against UH during Zoom lecture

September 8, 2020 Anna Bauman

(Houston Chronicle) A 19-year-old Richmond man who authorities said described himself as an ISIS recruiter is accused of making a bomb threat against the University of Houston during a Zoom lecture, federal prosecutors said. Ibraheem Ahmed Al Bayati was taken into custody […]

‘Killing machines’: Charlie Hebdo trial revisits 2015 attack

September 7, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps

(AFP) A Paris court on Monday sat through a viewing of graphic images of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo newsroom attack scene, prompting horrified members of the audience to leave the room in tears. More than five years after the massacre at the […]

British female Isil suspects escaping from Syrian detention camps (LINK ONLY)

September 6, 2020 EoI News

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Charlie Hebdo, market attacks turned widow into fugitive

September 5, 2020 Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

(AP) The fugitive widow of the Islamic State killer who plotted attacks against the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and a kosher market calls home to France once a year to catch up, her sisters testified, offering new details about one of the […]

Albania arrests woman wanted in Italy for terror conviction

September 5, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) A woman wanted in Italy for trying to recruit people to join the Islamic State group was arrested in Albania’s capital on Saturday, police said. Lubjana Gjecaj, 43, will be extradited to Italy where a court in Milan has sentenced her […]

Anjem Choudary ‘linked to London terror cell behind kidnapping of journalist John Cantlie’ (LINK ONLY)

September 4, 2020 EoI News

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Dead or alive? Charlie Hebdo jihadist widow eludes capture

September 4, 2020 Emmanuel Duparcq

(AFP) Described as France’s most wanted woman, Hayat Boumeddiene has been on the run ever since her partner Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman and four Jews in the January 2015 terror attacks that shook the country. Boumeddiene left France in the days […]

Macron decries ‘Islamic separatism,’ defends blasphemy

September 4, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Friday what he called “Islamic separatism” in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting France’s “right to commit blasphemy.” Macron defended satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that […]

High Court asked to define an Islamic State member after Adelaide woman’s IS membership conviction overturned

September 3, 2020 Elizabeth Byrne

(ABC-Australia) How do you join a terrorist organisation? That’s the question before the High Court today. Adelaide woman Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, 25, was nabbed by police in 2016, as she tried to leave Australia on a one-way ticket to Turkey with only $180 […]

Police arrest ISIS suspect on Crete

September 3, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Kathimerini) Authorities on Crete have arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State (ISIS), Kathimerini reports. The suspect, identified as a 27-year-old British national of Jordanian origin, had been banned from entering Greece on the grounds of national security. The ban was […]

American IS follower pleads guilty to terror charges

September 2, 2020 Jeff Seldin

(VOA) An American who traveled to Syria to fight for Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate has pleaded guilty to terror charges, a year after he was returned to the United States. The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that Omer Kuzu, 23, had pleaded […]

Trial opens over Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that stunned France

September 2, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre and Valentin Bontemps

(AFP) Fourteen suspected accomplices of the jihadist gunmen who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket appeared in a Paris court Wednesday, five years after the three days of terror that rocked France. The killings, which began on January […]

Charlie Hebdo attackers killed to avenge Prophet Mohammad, French court hears

September 2, 2020 Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) The Islamist gunmen who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago, killing 12 people, sought to avenge the Prophet Mohammad, a French court heard on Wednesday on the first day of the trial of more than a dozen alleged […]

North Macedonia: Police arrest 3 on suspicion of terrorism

September 1, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have arrested three men on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in the country and have seized a large quantity of weapons in raids in five locations in the country’s north. Police said on Tuesday the […]

US vetoes UN resolution over Islamic State fighters’ return

August 31, 2020 Edith M. Lederer

(AP) The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution Monday calling for the prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of all those engaged in terrorism-related activities, saying it didn’t call for the repatriation from Syria and Iraq of foreign fighters for the Islamic State extremist […]

Jihadists failed to divide in January 2015 French attacks: Hollande

August 30, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Former French president Francois Hollande maintained Sunday that jihadists had failed to divide the population with terror attacks in January 2015 that killed 17 people. On Wednesday, 14 people face trial in connection with the murders, which heralded an unprecedented wave […]

Mutating terror threat still looms over Europe

August 27, 2020 Didier Lauras

(AFP) The terrorist threat against Europe has mutated in the last half-decade as jihadist groups have seen their Middle East sanctuaries eroded, but analysts say the West must remain braced for more attacks. Both Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group — together […]

Canadian ‘extremist travellers’ a significant concern, RCMP says after ISIS-related arrest

August 27, 2020 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Extremists who have taken part in terrorist activities overseas remain a “significant concern,” the RCMP said Thursday as a Toronto-area woman appeared in court to face charges she attempted to join ISIS. Haleema Mustafa, 23, was remanded into custody until […]

Suspects in France’s Charlie Hebdo killings face justice

August 26, 2020 Anne-Sophie Lasserre

(AFP) Fourteen alleged accomplices in the 2015 jihadist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket go on trial next Wednesday more than half-a-decade after days of bloodshed that still shock France. The attacks heralded a wave of Islamist […]

Immigrant who stabbed cop in neck is ISIS fan, said ‘my religion made me do it’: feds

August 26, 2020 Rebecca Rosenberg

(NY Post) [An] illegal immigrant who stabbed an NYPD officer in the neck then opened fire on cops earlier this year is an ISIS supporter who confessed “my religion made me do it,” federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday. The accusation came as a […]

Woman arrested in Toronto area for allegedly trying to join ISIS

August 26, 2020 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Ten months after returning to Canada from Turkey, a Toronto-area woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to join the so-called Islamic State. Haleema Mustafa, a resident of Markham, Ont., was taken into custody at around noon on Wednesday and […]

UK supreme court ruling clears way for Isis pair to be tried in US (LINK ONLY)

August 26, 2020 EoI News

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Wisconsin woman sentenced for trying to help Islamic State

August 25, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) A Wisconsin woman accused of trying to plan terrorist attacks using hacked social media accounts has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Waheba Issa Dais, 48, of Cudahy, pleaded guilty last year to one count of providing material […]

MCB report says UK media has disproportionate focus on Islam when reporting terror (LINK ONLY)

August 25, 2020 EoI News

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Convicted al-Qaeda supporter arrested for 2nd time since release from prison

August 24, 2020 Stewart Bell

(Global News) Convicted al-Qaeda supporter Kevin Omar Mohamed was arrested by Toronto counter-terrorism police on Sunday for the second time since his release from prison last year. Mohamed, 27, was to appear in court Monday to face a terrorism peace bond following […]

Leading UK Jewish group blasts major Muslim charity after second antisemitism scandal this year

August 23, 2020 Benjamin Kerstein

(Algemeiner) The president of the leading Jewish group in the UK sharply criticized a major Muslim organization after its leadership was forced to resign en masse due to an antisemitism scandal. Trustee and director Almoutaz Tayara of Islamic Relief Worldwide was discovered […]

ISIS Beatles fear ‘Hell on Earth’ supermax prison that’s ‘fate worse than death penalty’ (LINK ONLY)

August 23, 2020 EoI News

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British twin sisters detained in high-security detention centre after trying to escape refugee camp

August 23, 2020 Rohit Kachroo

(ITV) Twin sisters from Manchester who went to Syria to join Islamic State have told ITV News how they were arrested and are being detained in a high-security detention centre after trying to escape from a refugee camp. Zahra and Salma Halane […]

East London school where terror plotter Umar Haque showed ISIS video to pupils given official warning by Charity Commission (LINK ONLY)

August 21, 2020 EoI News

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British Islamic State twin sister alive with young son in Syrian detention camp (LINK ONLY)

August 21, 2020 EoI News

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Concerns over whether UK can overcome legal hurdles to hand evidence to US on Islamic State ‘Beatles’ (LINK ONLY)

August 20, 2020 EoI News

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Islamic State bride sold her wedding present: an AK47

August 20, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State group fell on such hard times that she had to sell her wedding present, an AK47 rifle, according to prosecutors in Germany. In a statement Thursday, German federal prosecutors said they have indicted […]

US won’t seek death penalty against pair of IS militants

August 19, 2020 Eric Tucker

(AP) The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages, removing a hurdle in the potential prosecution of the men in the United […]

Brother of Manchester Arena bomber refuses to attend court (LINK ONLY)

August 19, 2020 EoI News

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Suspect in Berlin highway attack moved to psychiatric jail

August 19, 2020 Kirsten Grieshaber

(AP) German authorities on Wednesday ordered a 30-year-old man accused of deliberately driving his car into other vehicles along a major Berlin highway and injuring six people moved to a psychiatric jail, as investigators continue to probe the man’s motives. Officials said […]

Ontario terrorism offender released from prison last year has been taken back into custody

August 17, 2020 Stewart Bell

(Global News) A terrorism offender released from prison last year despite concerns he remained a “high risk to public safety” has been arrested again for allegedly breaching his probation. RCMP counter-terrorism officers took Kevin Omar Mohamed back into custody at a job […]

Spain marks third anniversary of deadly Catalonia attacks

August 17, 2020 Josep Lago

(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Monday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort three years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens […]

London Bridge attack victim who needed eight months of hospital treatment takes terrorist pair’s estates to court (LINK ONLY)

August 15, 2020 EoI News

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Jihadi bride who lost an arm and a breast as ISIS crumbled is back in Britain (LINK ONLY)

August 14, 2020 EoI News

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Cleric extradited from Jamaica to NYC on terrorism charges

August 14, 2020 Tom Hays and Jim Mustian

(AP) A radical Islamic cleric has been extradited to New York City on charges he recruited followers and fighters for the Islamic State through fiery online lectures and militant propaganda, prosecutors said Friday. Abdullah al-Faisal, who had been behind bars in Jamaica, […]

How the Toronto-registered websites of al-Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban were taken down

August 13, 2020 Stewart Bell

(Global News) When the Toronto-based tech company Tucows Inc. discovered it was providing domain registration services to the Pakistani Taliban, it immediately contacted the RCMP for guidance. Days later, it was still waiting for a response. By Tuesday, it had waited long […]

Tlaib slams Israel-U.A.E. deal: ‘We won’t celebrate Netanyahu for not stealing land’

August 13, 2020 Zachary Evans

(National Review) Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) slammed the Israel-U.A.E. agreement announced on Thursday, which commits the two countries to establishing full diplomatic relations and commits Israel in particular to suspending its annexation of territory in the West Bank. The agreement makes […]

Terror accused Hisham Muhammad ‘believed IS was US creation’

August 13, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man accused of planning a terror attack has told a court he researched the Islamic State group because he believed it was “created by America.” Hisham Muhammad, of Victoria Avenue, Bury, is accused of planning both a “lone-wolf attack” and […]

Facebook hackers use ISIS propaganda to target ABC host Julia Baird A disturbing new tactic shows terrorist propaganda being used by cybercrims to hijack Facebook accounts.

August 10, 2020 Jack Gramenz

(News.com.au) Hackers are hijacking people’s social media accounts, using them to post terrorist propaganda and stopping the account owners from getting them back in a new tactic affecting ordinary Australians and prominent public figures. One lawyer says Facebook is not doing enough […]

Brooklyn man pleads guilty to attempting to support ISIS

August 10, 2020 Ben Feuerherd

(NY Post) A Brooklyn man who uploaded instructional manuals online about how to conduct lone-wolf terror attacks in New York City pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Zachary Clark, 41, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court […]

Jihadists face court over recruiting Islamic militants

August 10, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Swiss Info) A trial is underway at the Federal Criminal Court of two Islamists suspected of membership in a criminal organisation and recruiting followers to travel to conflict regions in Syria. One of the defendants is accused of fighting for a militant […]

Brit ‘jihadi bride’ and mum-of-nine is back in UK enjoying benefit-funded life (LINK ONLY)

August 8, 2020 EoI News

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Imam who headed ‘Peace’ association deported from Italy for radicalism

August 7, 2020 Chris Tomlinson

(Breitbart) Italy has expelled three radical Islamic extremists deemed to be security risks, including an Egyptian imam who headed an Islamic cultural association in the province of Venice. The Egyptian imam headed the Islamic association La Pace — “Peace” — and is […]