News: Europe
Shamima Begum: I fear psychotic Isis women (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
Legal
Swiss attorney general files indictment against two men over IS links
(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has filed an indictment with the Federal Criminal Court against two men accused of supporting and participating in the terror organisation “Islamic State” (IS). According to the indictment, the principal accused, a Swiss-Italian dual citizen domiciled […]
Citizenship
UK government considered repatriation of British Isis members (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Denmark passes law enabling withdrawal of jihadists’ citizenship
(Local) An expedited bill, enabling the immigration minister to revoke the passports of Danes who join foreign militant groups, was passed by parliament on Thursday. The law is aimed primarily at individuals who have fought for the Islamic State (Isis) terror group […]
Government & Politics
Prosecutor wants to bring 29 suspected jihadists back to NL for trial
(NL Times) The public prosecutor submitted a list of 29 suspected Dutch jihadists that it wants to bring back from Syria to the Netherlands to face justice, the Ministry of Justice and Security confirmed to NRC. That is a significant increase from […]
Children & Teens
Shamima Begum faces ‘extreme scenario’ in citizenship appeal (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Another jihadist suspect set to lose Swiss passport
(Swiss Info) Moves are underway to strip a Geneva-based woman suspected of supporting militant Islamic organisations of her Swiss nationality. The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) launched proceedings against a woman with triple Swiss, French and Tunisian nationality, according to a note in the latest edition of the Federal Gazette. […]
Law Enforcement
British police have foiled 24 terror plots since ISIS-inspired Westminster attack in March 2017, Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick says (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Amy McGrath attended dinner hosted by radical Muslim group CAIR
(Free Beacon) As Democrat Amy McGrath was laying the groundwork for her Senate bid, she attended a dinner hosted by the Kentucky chapter of a radical anti-Israel organization that has been tied to funding of global terror networks. The Kentucky chapter of […]
Citizenship
Shamima Begum begins appeal against loss of UK citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
ISIS bride Shamima Begum wants to return to UK to argue she was ‘rape victim’ (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Terror suspect to remain in Swiss custody
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has decided to extend the pre-trial detention of a man accused of supporting a criminal group, attempted murder and violating the law banning Islamic State. The man, a citizen of canton Vaud in western Switzerland, […]
Legal
Probe into 2015 Paris jihadist attacks wraps up
(AFP) French investigators have wrapped up their probe into the jihadist attacks that killed 130 people on a single day in Paris four years ago, prosecutors said Monday, paving the way for trial. Prosecutors will now have a month to present their […]
Clerics & Preachers
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s banned terror group ‘has revived since he was released from jail last year and is holding meetings again’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Let jihadists return home, French anti-terror magistrate urges
(AFP) The refusal of the French government to take back Islamic State fighters from Syria could fuel a new jihadist recruitment drive in France, threatening public safety, a leading anti-terrorism investigator has told AFP. David De Pas, coordinator of France’s 12 anti-terrorism […]
Demonstrations
‘Powderkeg’ in Germany amid Turks-Kurds conflict
(AFP) Syrian Kurd Mohamed Zidik, 76, still buys his bread and baklavas from Turkish neighbours in Berlin, but he knows better than to expound on his views about Ankara’s offensive in his hometown. Since Turkish forces launched their assault on Kurds in […]
Legal
Cousin of Brussels terror suspect sentenced to prison on terror charges
(Brussels Times) A family member of Mohamed Abrini, a key suspect in the Brussels and Paris terror attacks, has been convicted on terror charges and handed a suspended prison sentence. A criminal court in Liège handed Abrini’s cousin, an unidentified 24-year-old woman, […]
Military
‘They’ll come to kill us’: Canadian trapped in Syria pleads to UN for help
(CTV) “Dear United Nations …” The letter was written by hand on paper that was torn from a notebook. It’s dated October 16, 2019, from a detention camp in northern Syria. The writer is a Canadian, speaking for 10 women, all once […]
Clerics & Preachers
Austria jails imam and three other men for Isis recruitment
(AFP) An imam and three other men have been locked up by an Austrian court for running a religious group that recruited young men for Isis. The court in Graz, the capital of Styria state, sentenced the imam to seven years in […]
News: Europe
Call for state to repatriate Lisa Smith in effort to understand radicalisation (LINK ONLY)
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Military
Belgium to evacuate Isis suspects from Syria detention camps (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Ex-IS recruiter tells ITV News she is being held by Syrian rebels after escaping detention camp
(ITV) Hundreds of women who are accused of being supporters and recruiters for so-called Islamic State have been on the run, along with their children, since last Sunday, after finding a way to escape a detention camp in northern Syria. The women […]
Government & Politics
France says foiled September 11-inspired attack
(Reuters) France’s interior minister said on Thursday that intelligence services had arrested a man for planning an attack inspired by plane attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in Sept. 2001. France has for several years grappled with how to […]
News: Europe
Syrian group claiming to hold Lisa Smith attempts to sell interviews with her (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Alleged jihadist in court accused of plot to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Terrorist ‘disgusted’ by extremism path
(AAP) A twice-convicted terrorist says he’s disgusted by his part in a plot to detonate bombs and behead people in Melbourne’s Federation Square three years ago. Abdullah Chaarani has told a Supreme Court pre-sentence hearing he has “realised what an idiot” he […]
Military
Sister of Canadian held in Syrian camp pleads for help from Ottawa
(CTV) The sister of a Canadian woman being held in a detention camp in northeastern Syria has written to the Canadian government, pleading for help following Turkey’s invasion — facilitated by U.S. President Donald Trump. “What I need to convey to you […]
News: North America
Canadian couple released from Turkish detention without charges Newlyweds had been held since July after being detained near Syrian border
(CBC) CBC News has learned that a Canadian couple who were detained in Turkey for months has been released without charges and are heading back to Canada. A senior government source told CBC News the couple’s problems began when they took a […]
Government & Politics
Two Belgian Islamic State militants escape camp in north Syria: Belgium
(Reuters) Two Islamic State militants from Belgium have escaped custody in northern Syria in the course of Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish forces there, the head of Belgium’s security assessment agency said on Wednesday. Paul Van Tigchelt, head of OCAD, told a parliamentary […]
Children & Teens
Germany: Alleged IS recruit tried, accused of keeping slaves
(AP) A German-Algerian woman accused of membership of the Islamic State group and keeping three captive Yazidi women as slaves in Syria has gone on trial in Germany. Proceedings against the 21-year-old, identified only as Sarah O. in line with German privacy […]
Children & Teens
UK special forces may help British orphans escape Syria (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
British and Irish women who recruited for Isil found in makeshift jail after escaping detention camp (LINK ONLY)
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News: North America
Former Calgary resident detained in Syria says ISIS asked him to conduct attacks in North America
(Global News) Surrounded in the shrinking territory of the Islamic State nine months ago, Safraz Ali fled with his wife, walking to a military checkpoint where soldiers asked their nationalities. “I said, ‘Canadians,’” Ali told Global News at a military base in […]
News: North America
RCMP investigating whether Canadian newlyweds detained in Turkey were radicalized Ikar Mao and Haleema Mustafa were taken into custody near Syrian border in July
(CBC) The RCMP has been combing through the background of two Canadian newlyweds who disappeared while on vacation in Turkey and are suspected of trying to join ISIS, according to multiple sources. Haleema Mustafa and Ikar Mao, both in their early 20s, […]
Demonstrations
Berlin urges ‘restraint’ after Turkish-Kurdish clashes in Germany
(AFP) German authorities on Tuesday appealed to its Turkish and Kurdish communities to avoid echoing the Middle Eastern conflict, after clashes between the two groups over Ankara’s offensive in northeastern Syria. Police said at least five people had been injured in fights […]
Military
Lisa Smith may have fled Syrian camp following Turkish assault (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
France jails women for failed Notre Dame car bombing: report
(Reuters) A French court on Monday handed down sentences of at least 25 years in jail for two women with ties to Islamist militants who made a failed attempt to set off a crude car bomb outside Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral three years […]
Citizenship
Denmark to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship
(Reuters) Denmark will fast-track legislation allowing people with dual citizenship who have gone abroad to fight for militant groups like Islamic State to be stripped of their Danish nationality, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday. European states are trying to accelerate […]
Clerics & Preachers
French police hold five over deadly knife attack
(AFP) French police on Monday detained five people linked to a radicalised employee at the Paris police headquarters who killed four colleagues in a knife attack earlier this month, sources said. Police staged raids at three locations in the northern suburbs of […]
Legal
Notre-Dame bomb plot: Sentencing of female terror cell expected this week French trial reveals how four women were convinced to inflict more carnage on Paris
(National-UAE) An unprecedented trial of six women accused after a failed car bombing close to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris sheds new light on the recruitment, manipulation and deployment of females by terrorists. The Paris court is also judging a major ISIS figure […]
Military
Among Canadian ISIS detainees in Syria, women far outnumber men
(Global News) Sitting in a dim room at a detention camp in northern Syria, Kimberly Polman was feeling vulnerable. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had vowed to free female prisoners like herself, and she believed him. “I take it seriously,” Polman said. […]
Children & Teens
Germany charges Iraqi man with genocide for killing Yazidi child An Iraqi man faces a charge of genocide in Germany, accused of chaining up a Yazidi girl and letting the 5-year-old die of thirst. He and his wife, a German national, are believed to be part of the 'Islamic State' group.
(Deutsche Welle) Greek authorities extradited an Iraqi man to Germany where he now faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and human trafficking, German prosecutors said on Friday. German officials identified the suspected “Islamic State” (IS) militant as Taha A.-J., in […]
News: Europe
‘Will you apologise for the murder of David Haines?’: ITV News confronts ISIS ‘Beatles’ over death of British aid worker
(ITV) The two surviving British members of the ISIS terror cell dubbed “The Beatles” have been confronted by ITV News about what they know of the last moments of murdered aid worker David Haines. In their last TV interviews before both were […]
News: Europe
British IS fighter said he wanted to return to the UK in last interview before removal from ‘unstable’ Syrian prison
(ITV) A British IS fighter said he wanted to return to the UK to defend himself in his last interview before he was moved from an “unstable” Syrian prison and into US custody. Speaking to ITV News security editor Rohit Kachroo, El […]
Government & Politics
Erdogan threatens Europe with refugees after Syria criticism
(Bloomberg) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to send millions of Syrian refugees settled in Turkey to Europe, as he bridled at criticism of his military offensive against Kurdish fighters. “If you try to define our operation as an invasion, then our job […]
Law Enforcement
Lisa Smith is under investigation for terror offences, Garda confirms (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Trump says potential ISIS escapees will ‘be escaping to Europe’
(Hill) President Trump on Wednesday said he’s not concerned about ISIS prisoners potentially escaping as the U.S. vacates northern Syria, claiming the escapees would end up [in] Europe. Trump was asked in the Roosevelt Room of the White House about the potential threat […]
Government & Politics
US moves 2 British IS members known as ‘Beatles’ from Syria
(AP) Two British militants believed to be part of an Islamic State group that beheaded hostages and was known as “The Beatles” have been moved out of a detention center in Syria and are in American custody, U.S. officials said Wednesday. President […]
Clerics & Preachers
Investigation opened against Lucerne imam
(Swiss Info) The office of the attorney general of Lucerne has opened an investigation into an Iraqi imam at the Dar Asalam mosque in the town of Kriens. The man is alleged to have advised followers to beat their wives if they […]
Government & Politics
Macron vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against Islamist terror after police killings
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday vowed an “unrelenting fight” against Islamist extremists at a memorial ceremony for four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a colleague who had converted to a radical version of Islam. Mickael Harpon, a […]