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(Deutsche Welle) German authorities said on Monday that Omaima A., a German-Tunisian woman, was arrested in Hamburg last week for her ties to the “Islamic State” (IS). Omaima A. was once married to German rapper-turned-IS fighter Denis Cuspert, who is believed to have died […]
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(Barking and Dagenham Post) The trustees of a mosque where children were groomed for terrorism failed to properly monitor an Islamic State sympathiser then attempted to cover up what happened, the Charity Commission has found. All five have been disqualified for 10 […]
(IPT) The lead author of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) 2019 Islamophobia report has repeatedly endorsed a terror-tied Turkish charity. CAIR research director Abbas Barzegar, the lead author of “Hijacked By Hate: American Philanthropy and the Islamophobia Network,” has supported the […]
(El País) Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, has recently issued arrest warrants for four women who traveled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State (ISIS). All four are currently being held in two detention camps run by Kurdish militias […]
(Religion News) A new study of how the media covers minorities in the United States finds that depictions of Muslims in the news remain by far the most frequent and the most negative. “Muslims are just way down there in comparison to […]
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(Deutsche Welle) A fighter from the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS) group stood trial in Düsseldorf on Wednesday facing serious charges of committing war crimes, in addition to murder. This is the second time that the 29-year-old has stood trial for terror-related offenses, […]
(AP) An 18-year-old Islamic State follower who was shot earlier this year after throwing rocks at and wielding a knife toward a police officer in metro Phoenix is asking a judge to reduce his $500,000 bond or release him from jail with […]
(NY Daily News) An alleged terrorist turncoat was indicted Tuesday on charges that he betrayed his American citizenship to provide material support to the ruthless ISIS network. A five-count indictment was filed in Brooklyn Federal Court said Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized […]
(Canadian Press) A British Columbia man who glorified terrorism by the Islamic State group in multiple Facebook posts has been ordered released from immigration detention by the Federal Court nearly a year after the Immigration and Refugee Board deemed him inadmissible and […]
(Reuters) Hungarian prosecutors said on Tuesday they had charged a 27-year-old Syrian man with terrorism and crimes against humanity committed as a member of Islamic State in 2015. The man, identified only as F. Hassan, was charged with beheading and shooting people […]
(Yle) The Finnish government is still to decide on the fate of Finnish women and their children detained at a refugee camp in a Kurdish region in Syria. A dozen or so Finnish women who followed their husbands as the men joined […]
(AFP) A man wielding a skewer and knife went on the rampage in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, leaving a 19-year-old man dead and eight others injured, including three critically. A police source said the alleged perpetrator was an Afghan […]
(CBC) A number of Canadian Muslims have been turned away at the Canada-U.S. border in recent weeks, immigration lawyers say. Those denied entry include a prominent Guyana-born Toronto imam who serves as a chaplain with the Peel Regional Police and an Iraqi Turkmen […]
(NY Post) A reclusive, braces-wearing teen who lived behind a white picket fence with his devout Muslim family was secretly an ISIS sympathizer — and was plotting to launch a knife attack at a Dunkin’ Donuts and other targets near his Queens […]
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(NY Daily News) FBI agents busted a 19-year-old ISIS wannabe on charges he planned a terrorist knife attack in Queens, law enforcement sources told the Daily News. Awais Chudhary of East Elmhurst boasted in an online chat room that he wanted to […]
(Yabiladi) Police in Spain arrested, Thursday, a 25-year-old man for his alleged links with ISIS. According to Spanish news agency Europa Press, the arrestee, who was wanted by an arrest warrant issued by Germany, is accused of “falsifying documents” and “tax fraud.” […]
(AP) A Maryland man accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C., was indicted Wednesday on a terrorism-related charge, five months after his arrest. A federal grand jury indicted Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown, […]
(Washington Times) The Trump administration’s push for allies to take custody of foreign-born Islamic State fighters held in makeshift prisons in Syria is yielding only limited results, fueling mounting anger in Washington in the effort to secure long-term defeat of the terror […]
(KWYB) A man arrested in Bozeman for sympathizing with terrorist groups is scheduled to change his plea this week. Court documents say Fabjan Alameti is set for an Aug. 28 hearing to change his plea in federal court. A plea agreement says […]
(Deutsche Welle) The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has launched a satirical YouTube channel in the hope of stopping young people from becoming radicalized via the video sharing platform. The project launched by the NRW Office for the Protection of the Constitution […]
(AP) Austria is preparing to repatriate two sons of an Austrian Islamic State group supporter believed to have died in Syria after she headed there in 2014. Foreign ministry spokesman Peter Guschelbauer told public broadcaster ORF’s Oe1 radio Saturday that “there is […]
(Global News) The importance of interfaith collaboration was the focus as thousands of people went to the largest annual Muslim convention in Western Canada on Saturday. All were welcome to the workshops and prayers at the Jalsa Salana convention at the Sarcee […]
(Deutsche Welle) A 33-year-old Syrian man was charged in the western Germany city of Koblenz on Friday with committing war crimes. Authorities say they … have concrete evidence that the man fought with the “Islamic State” (IS) terror group for two years, […]
(NY Post) Two terror fangirls from Queens who went gaga for al Qaeda and ISIS — including one who carried around Osama bin Laden’s photo — copped to bomb-building charges Friday that could land them in prison for up to 20 years. […]
(Deutsche Welle) When Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen refugee living in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, shared a DW article on his Facebook page last year, he never imagined he’d end up in legal trouble. But this week a court in Augsburg fined […]
(CBC) Jack Letts has every right as a Canadian citizen to come to Canada, legal analysts say, but the man dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by the media and accused of being an ISIS fighter may not have an easy time getting into the country. “Citizenship doesn’t […]
(ANSA) The wife of Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a Moroccan competitive kickboxer who was jailed in 2017 over alleged links to the Islamic State (ISIS), has been deported from Italy to Morocco. A court had in 2017 sentenced him to six years in jail […]
(Global News) A Toronto man convicted of travelling to Turkey to join the so-called Islamic State has been released from prison four months after he was sentenced, an official said Wednesday. Pamir Hakimzadah was charged with terrorism in April 2017 following what […]
(Sky News) The Briton who ran away to join Islamic State as a teenager has told Sky News he wants to be released from jail to join the fight against Islamist radicalisation. In an interview from prison, Jack Letts told Sky News […]
(ITV) Jack Letts, known as “Jihadi Jack,” has learned he has been stripped of his British citizenship in an exclusive interview with ITV News — and admitted it comes as no surprise. The detained Isis fighter, who held dual UK-Canadian citizenship, said […]
(Fox) Despite being driven from its former Iraq and Syria strongholds six months ago, ISIS continues to find ways to wreak havoc across the Middle East, remaining an innovative — if less strategically successful — terror force. According to a new report […]
(Canadian Press) Neither the governing Liberals nor the Opposition Conservatives expressed enthusiasm Monday for trying to secure the release of the overseas prisoner dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by the British media. Questions once again emerged about the fate of Jack Letts, the British-Canadian […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria on Monday handed to Germany four children whose parents were part of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) terror outfit, Kurdish sources and a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday. There […]
(BBC) The parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a “coward” for revoking his British citizenship. Jack Letts — dubbed Jihadi Jack — was 18 when he left his Oxfordshire […]
(Canadian Press) The United Kingdom is shirking its share of the international community’s duty to help keep the world safe from terrorism, the federal government suggested Sunday after the British Home Office revoked the citizenship of a dual citizen imprisoned in Syria. […]
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(AAP) It wasn’t the murder of innocent people or beheading videos that caused a Sydney man to “fall out” with Islamic State, but an argument over whether the terrorist group’s views were “extreme” enough. Amin Elmir will spend at least four years […]
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(Local) The situation for 12 Danish citizens in the al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria is reported to have become so serious that humanitarian organizations have urged the Scandinavian country to act. Summer temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius have significantly worsened conditions, […]
(Breitbart) An Austrian intelligence report states that radical Islamic terrorism is still the number one security issue in the country, with returning Islamic State fighters a chief concern. The report, which comes from the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution […]
(National-UAE) A new French Muslim association is pressing ahead with plans to finance the training and payment of imams despite silence from President Emmanuel Macron on his long-promised initiative for the organisation of Islam in France. Analysts believe the president shelved his […]
(AFP) Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, has been formally charged in connection with the Brussels suicide bombings months later, federal prosecutors said Monday. Abdeslam was charged with “participating in the activities of a terrorist group,” […]
(CBC) Othman Ayed Hamdan named the Revelstoke Dam in B.C. as a potential target in a series of online posts praising ISIS and cheering on lone wolf attacks. Now, he may be released into nearby Enderby while he awaits deportation from Canada, […]
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