(Brussels Times) The court of appeal in Antwerp has postponed the judgement on a foiled assassination attempt on the then mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever (N-VA), until 24 April. Five members of a suspected terrorist group are on trial in the […]
(BBC) A teenager has pleaded guilty to sharing Islamic State group (IS) videos and other material online on Telegram and TikTok. Leo Walby, 19, from Swanley, Kent, admitted six charges of dissemination of a terrorist publication between 10 July and 20 August […]
(Deutsche Welle) The ongoing coalition negotiations between the conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) are said to have been riddled with heated arguments — sometimes to the point of doors […]
(Olive Press) Three Moroccan men — allegedly members of a jihadist group — have been arrested by the Guardia Civil. They are accused of posing a “potential threat to national security.” Spain’s Interior Ministry on Friday reported that they had taken the […]
(BBC) A teenager accused of planning a gun attack has declined to attend his first appearance at the Old Bailey in London. Muhammad Billal, from Nelson in Lancashire, was arrested on 11 February and charged with two counts of the preparation of […]
(Yabiladi) A German court has sentenced German-Egyptian national Tariq S.S. to eight years in prison after finding him guilty of planning terrorist attacks in Germany, including a vehicle-ramming attack. His arrest on October 24, 2023, in Essen was made possible by precise […]
(Sur in English) The High Court of Spain has convicted two Brazilian jihadist brothers for the crimes of terrorist self-training and self-radicalisation. The pair were arrested by the Guardia Civil in Estepona in November 2023, in an operation with the collaboration of […]
(NL Times) A 32-year-old man from North Holland was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of financing terrorism through Bitcoin transactions and violating the Dutch Sanctions Act. The arrest was made and reported by the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD). Authorities searched […]
(Voz) French authorities have arrested a fugitive jihadist on the run in Spain, in the southern city of Béziers. Allal El Mourabit, who intended to join the Islamic State, killed three farmers in Spain while on the run. The Moroccan-born El Mourabit, now […]
(Swiss Info) On Monday, the Federal Criminal Court sentenced two Islamic State supporters to custodial sentences and day fines. The Winterthur residents were found guilty of supporting a terrorist organisation and possessing images of violence. The two defendants are aged 23 and […]
(Brussels Times) Nine years ago today, on 22 March 2016, Brussels experienced its deadliest terrorist attacks in history. Early in the morning on 22 March 2016, suicide bombers detonated explosives at Brussels Airport in Zaventem and later at Maelbeek metro station, near […]
(Jerusalem Post) Three teenagers were charged in the regional court in Dusseldorf with planning a terror attack in Germany, Bild reported on Saturday. The group, of two 16-year-old and 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy, were considering targeting a church, synagogue, or […]
(Sky News) A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a hospital in Leeds intending to “kill as many nurses as possible” has been jailed for life. Mohammad Farooq was sentenced to a minimum term of 37 years at Sheffield […]
(E-Notícies) New police operation against jihadism in Catalonia. The National Police arrested a 36-year-old Moroccan man on Monday in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, accused of recruiting fighters for the Islamic State (ISIS). The detainee, who was in an advanced process of radicalization, […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday sentenced a French jihadist to life in prison for holding four journalists captive more than a decade ago in war-torn Syria. Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, was convicted of having held the French reporters hostage for the Islamic […]
(ANSA) Italian police on Thursday arrested an alleged budding Islamistic terrorist living in the Brescia area, sources said. The suspect, a 46-year-old Italian man with Moroccan roots, allegedly downloaded jihadist propaganda and instructions for making homemade weapons. Investigators seized material including handwritten […]
(North Africa Post) Spanish authorities have arrested a suspected supporter of the terrorist group ISIS in Córdoba, southern Spain, in a counterterrorism operation carried out in coordination with Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST). The suspect was identified through close intelligence-sharing […]
(AFP) Prosecutors demanded a life sentence on Wednesday for a French jihadist on trial charged with holding journalists hostage in Syria for the Islamic State group. Prosecutor Benjamin Chambre called Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, “one of the most perverse and cruel jihadists of […]
(Politico) The European Union’s diplomatic arm will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to deal with 55,000 ISIS-linked detainees, some of whom are EU citizens, after the United States abruptly paused much of its aid to two camps in Syria. Al Hol […]
(Sky News) “I travelled to Syria to make jihad. I won’t lie,” Londoner Hamza Parvez says through his cell grate. “A lot of mistakes were made — I’m bearing the brunt of those mistakes.” He is one of thousands of foreigners, from […]
(Iran International) An Iranian illegal immigrant in the UK, found to support Islamic State (ISIS) and pose a real and serious danger to the British public, will not face deportation for fear he will be tortured back in Iran, an investigation by […]
(European Conservative) French police arrested and charged a teenager in connection with a planned terror campaign, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has confirmed. The 17-year-old from Vesoul in Haute-Saône has been held since Thursday, March 13th. He is under investigation for […]
(Edmonton Journal) A pair of women repatriated to Edmonton after living in territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State have agreed to short-term terrorism peace bonds. Dina Kalouti and Helena Carson were part of a group returned to Canada in 2023 from […]
(BBC) The daughter of MP Sir David Amess said she still felt “betrayed” there would be no inquiry into his death, but that the prime minister had offered a “glimmer of hope” the government would reconsider. Katie Amess visited Downing Street where […]
(NY Post) It took nearly a year for a Lebanese illegal migrant who arrived under the Biden administration and admitted that he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping “to make a bomb” to get his deportation papers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Post […]
(Anadolu) French far-right Member of the European Parliament Marion Marechal was indicted Tuesday for defamation following her accusations against the “Valeurs et Reussite” Muslim group behind a planned Muslim school in Valence, Francebleu broadcaster reported. The indictment was issued after Marechal claimed […]
(BBC) The home secretary has rejected calls from the family of MP Sir David Amess for a public inquiry into his murder. In a letter addressed to Lady Julia Amess and Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said it was “hard to see how […]
(ITV) A man has appeared in court charged with terror offences. Cameron Gloria De Almeida, 21, of Garnet Place, Beeston, Leeds, spoke to confirm his personal details when he appeared via videolink at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, 8 March. He […]
(Jerusalem Post) Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, a 28-year-old Iraqi national who gained legal permanent residence in Texas after receiving refugee status, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, the US Justice Department announced on Friday. Alqaysi was […]
(BBC) A 20-year-old woman who was convicted of possessing a pro-Islamic State group video has been sentenced to a two-year community order. Dzhamilya Timaeva, from Windsor, Berkshire, was 17 when she was stopped at Heathrow Airport as she travelled to Turkey with […]
(European Conservative) Seven fitness influencers were arrested in Spain on January 20th, suspected of jihadist indoctrination. The arrests, the result of a months-long investigation, took place in several Spanish cities, although the operations are not all connected. At least one of those […]
(Reuters) A new travel ban by President Donald Trump could bar people from Afghanistan and Pakistan from entering the U.S. as soon as next week based on a government review of countries’ security and vetting risks, three sources familiar with the matter […]
(ANSA) Jihadi terrorism has gained momentum since the start of the conflict between Hamas and Israel with terrorist organizations taking advantage of the Middle Eastern crisis to recruit new members, in particular youths, to carry out attacks which have doubled in 2024 […]
(NL Times) A 24-year-old man from Venray was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses, including making threats involving a terrorist act and distributing incendiary materials. The suspect came to the attention of Dutch authorities earlier [last] month after Belgian police raised […]
(ANHA) On [Saturday], March 1, 2025, a delegation from the Austrian government, led by Günter Riesner, deputy head of the Security Affairs Department at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Andreas Adler, an advisor in the same department, visited north and […]
(AP) A Minneapolis man who allegedly expressed admiration for the truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people has been accused of trying to join the Islamic State group, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan, 22, made his first court […]
(National-UAE) Austria plans to widen the role of an Islamist extremism watchdog known for exposing the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in Europe, as part of a deal to form a new government. The three-party coalition is vowing to step up Austria’s anti-extremism efforts […]
(Toronto Sun) With Canada turning a worrying blind eye towards Islamic extremism, a group of imams are taking a stand against dangerous ideologies. Speaking at a press conference on Parliament Hill on Thursday, Spadina-Fort York MP Kevin Vuong called on both government […]
(BBC) A 25-year-old man from Cleethorpes has been convicted of terrorism offences following a two-week trial. Mohammed Mahfuz Ahmed, of Crowhill Avenue, was found guilty of disseminating terrorist publications and encouraging terrorism at Sheffield Crown Court earlier. He was arrested in April […]
(Toronto Sun) We sure hope someone is still keeping an eye on Daniel Khoshnood. The 33-year-old has just returned to Toronto from a three-year stint in a British Columbia jail on charges he threatened to harm his parole officer. He was arrested […]
(AP) Germany’s top prosecutor has charged a suspected Islamic extremist with murder, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization abroad in connection with a deadly knife attack last year at a festival in the western German city of Solingen. The Aug. […]
(AFP) Two Afghan men linked to the Islamic State group were jailed in Germany on Thursday for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament in retaliation for Koran burnings by protestors. The two suspects, identified as Ibrahim M. G. and Ramin N., […]
(NY Post) A machine gun fanatic living in the country illegally was charged Wednesday with supporting ISIS — after his ex-wife ratted him out for getting a “sham” green-card marriage to a Bronx stripper, the Post has learned. Mansuri Manuchekhri, a Tajikstan-born […]
(Deutsche Welle) Islamists suspected of belonging to so-called Islamic State (IS) have used social networks to call for attacks — including on Cologne’s Carnival celebration, which kicks off with Fat Thursday (Wieberfastnacht). They named specific locations within Cologne, a city in western Germany […]
(DPA) Islamists have used social networks to call for attacks, including during the Cologne carnival, Martin Lotz, head of the Cologne police’s carnival operations, told dpa. He said that these kinds of statement[s] also aimed at unsettling the population and that the […]
(Olive Press) A Moroccan hairdresser based in the Barcelona area has been deported from Spain for indoctrinating and recruiting fighters for the Islamic State terror group at his salon. The jihadist lived in Mataro and was expelled by the National Court and […]
(AFP) The daughter of [a] murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on […]
(DPA) German authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of having planned a politically motivated attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin, security sources told dpa on Friday. Security authorities assume an Islamist motive, according to information obtained by dpa. Police arrested […]
(European Conservative) Austria is facing “high-risk threats” of Islamist terrorism, according to the head of the Central European country’s domestic intelligence agency, who spoke after yet another terrorist attack, this time targeting a railway station, was thwarted. Austrian authorities announced on Wednesday, […]
(Canadian Press) A Pakistani national from Ontario wanted in the United States on terror-related charges for allegedly targeting Jewish institutions in New York City has agreed to be extradited. During a brief Superior Court hearing Thursday in Montreal, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, […]
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