News: Europe
Call for state to repatriate Lisa Smith in effort to understand radicalisation (LINK ONLY)
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Islamic State (ISIS)
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 […]
Government & Politics
Pressure for answers after deadly Paris attack on police
(AFP) Pressure grew Monday on France’s government to explain how the radicalisation of a man who stabbed four colleagues to death at Paris police headquarters failed to raise red flags inside the intelligence unit where he worked. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, summoned […]
Law Enforcement
Paris knife attacker had USB drive with information about colleagues: media
(Reuters) An IT worker who killed four people at Paris police headquarters with a knife last week had a USB drive with personal details about his colleagues, French daily Le Parisien reported on Monday. The attacker on Thursday killed three police officers […]
Children & Teens
Daughter of Irish jihadist Lisa Smith ‘must come home now’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
France admits ‘failings’ over Paris police attacker’s radicalisation
(AFP) France’s interior minister acknowledged Sunday that officials should have kept a closer eye on the Paris police employee who stabbed four colleagues to death last week, after investigators found evidence he had supported an extreme version of Islam. “Obviously, there were […]
Military
The secret life of Irish [jihadist] Lisa Smith (LINK ONLY)
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Isis bride Smith posed with guns before heading to Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Aussie tells of descent into Syrian mire An Australian woman has recounted her hellish ordeal in Syria and the psychological damage to her two young children from years in the war-torn country.
(AAP) Walking through Al-Hawl camp in northeastern Syria, the women pass in a sea of black. Most women wear a niqab — the Islamic dress that covers everything but the eyes — either because they’re affiliated with Islamic State, or afraid of […]
Law Enforcement
Domestic ISIS arrests are on the rise again Terror arrests have doubled since 2018
(Free Beacon) Police have arrested more than twice the number of domestic ISIS terrorists and sympathizers in the first eight months of this year than they charged in all of 2018. The FBI and local police departments have arrested 24 people for […]
Law Enforcement
Probe into police HQ knife rampage handed to French anti-terrorist prosecutor
(AFP) French detectives on Friday referred the investigation into a knife rampage by a staffer at Paris police headquarters that left four colleagues dead to anti-terrorist prosecutors, sources said. Three police officers and an administrative worker — three men and a woman […]
Law Enforcement
Technician kills four in Paris police HQ knife attack
(AFP) A longstanding IT staffer for the Paris police headquarters stabbed to death four colleagues at the building in the heart of the French capital on a knife-wielding rampage Thursday before he was shot dead, officials said. A fifth person was critically […]
News: Europe
Five jihadists in Irish prisons, says study (LINK ONLY)
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US hits lowered refugee cap for 2019 as another decrease looms
(VOA) The U.S. reached its self-imposed cap of 30,000 refugee arrivals Monday, the last day of the 2019 fiscal year, as the Trump administration eyes another major reduction in refugee admittances from across the globe for 2020. More than half of refugees […]
News: Europe
One of first British men to join so-called Islamic State traced to prison in northern Syria by ITV News
(ITV) One of the first British men to join so-called Islamic State has been traced to a prison in northern Syria by ITV News, where he said he misses his mother, his old life in Cardiff, and wants to return home. Aseel […]
Government & Politics
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum told to forget ever returning home to Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Revealed: Cabinet at war over Boris Johnson’s plans to send the SAS into Syria to bring 30 Isis children back to Britain (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Notorious extremist preached jihad on a UK-based Islamic TV channel on Sky and Virgin (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
‘I want to redeem myself,’ says jihadi bride. ‘Take me home’ (LINK ONLY)
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News: North America
No regret: Captured ISIS fighter wants to come home — but not if he will be judged by Canadian law Some security experts question Canada’s strategy in dealing with returning ISIS members
(CBC) Before he was captured by Syrian Kurdish forces in February, Canadian Mohammed Khalifa went from being a cog in the ranks of ISIS to its English-language voice. Khalifa, 35, who goes by his ISIS nom de guerre Abu Ridwan, says he […]
News: Europe
Brit ISIS fighter ‘Hungry Hamza’ reveals he feels no guilt for group’s bloody reign of terror and claims he improved people’s lives (LINK ONLY)
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