(NPR) A family of 10 American citizens who were held for years in a Syrian refugee camp and detention center for relatives of Islamic State militants are now back in the United States, the result of complex negotiations that also returned two […]
(Bergen Record) A New Jersey mayor who was abruptly disinvited from a White House Eid celebration in May was not on the federal terrorism watchlist at the time when the U.S. Secret Service denied his security clearance, his attorneys said in a […]
(Politico) A Muslim Democratic mayor from New Jersey plans to sue the Biden administration seeking to end a federal terrorism watchlist which he has previously said unfairly targets Muslims — including himself this spring at the White House. More details of the […]
(CNN) The Muslim mayor who was turned away from an Eid reception at the White House on Monday said he believes it was due to racial profiling. When asked by CNN whether racial profiling was a factor, Mohamed Khairullah, the mayor from […]
(AP) A New Jersey mayor who was blocked from attending a White House celebration this week with President Joe Biden to belatedly mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan called Tuesday for the administration to end the federal “watch […]
(AP) The U.S. Secret Service said Monday it blocked a Muslim mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, from attending a White House celebration with President Joe Biden to belatedly mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Shortly before he […]
(Fox) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Wednesday that it has deported an Afghan national who was paroled into the U.S. last year, and pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a 3-year-old girl. Tariq Mohammad Intezar, a 25-year-old Afghan, was paroled into […]
(NY Daily News) [An] Uzbek man who plotted to bankroll ISIS wannabes hoping to fight in Syria was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to 11 years behind bars. Dilshod Khusanov, 37, admitted to plotting to pay the travel expenses for one […]
(NY Daily News) An Uzbekistan citizen living in Brooklyn was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for offering financial support in American dollars to the terrorist group ISIS. Dilkhayot Kasimov, 34, was convicted for driving to Kennedy Airport in February 2015 […]
(BBC) The second of two men arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue siege has been released without charge. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead after a standoff with police on 15 […]
(BBC) One of two men arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue siege has been released without charge, police have said. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead after a standoff with police […]
(BBC) Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into an attack on a Texas synagogue which saw a gunman take four people hostage. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead by the FBI after a […]
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(AP) The gunman who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said Tuesday. Malik […]
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(CNN) The FBI on Sunday identified Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national, as the man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in an hours-long standoff Saturday before a rescue team entered the building and killed the suspect. An […]
(NY Post) A New York imam was charged with attempted child sex abuse raps after he was busted in a civilian sting operation that exposes pedophiles on YouTube, the Post has learned. Ahmet Yuceturk, who was previously the imam at JFK Airport’s […]
(Essex Daily Voice) A Queens man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years without parole in federal prison for trying to support ISIS, followed by another eight years for assaulting a federal correctional officer. Ali Saleh, 28, will have to serve out just […]
(Fox) An Uzbekistan-born Illinois man pleaded guilty [Monday] to helping fund overseas trips for people joining the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front (ANF). Dilshod Khusanov, 36, of Chicago, faces a maximum penalty of 11 years in prison. Per his plea agreement, Khusanov […]
(AP) A New York City man has been convicted on charges alleging that he tried to help the Taliban fight American forces. Delowar Mohammed Hossain, 36, was convicted late Friday in Manhattan federal court on charges that he tried to provide material […]
(NY Post) A former Bronx Uber driver who was busted by the feds for allegedly trying to join the Taliban in Afghanistan is actually just a “wannabe playboy” who was trying to run off to Thailand to meet up with women there, […]
(Reuters) A Brooklyn woman who will be resentenced for supporting Islamic State after a court threw out her “shockingly low” four-year prison term did not attend a Wednesday court hearing, and a prosecutor suggested she may have cut her monitoring bracelet. U.S. […]
(Courthouse News) A federal appeals court vacated the sentence of an Islamic State supporter on Wednesday after federal prosecutors argued she got off too easy. Sinmyah Amera Ceasar, a U.S. citizen also known by her online nom de guerre Umm Nutella — […]
(Age) Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court as one of the women fights to be released back into the community. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan, 23, […]
(Politico) Reports of Iranians and Iranian-Americans being detained for questioning upon entering the U.S. kicked off a furor on Sunday from Washington state to Washington, D.C., marking a new domestic blowback to the Trump administration’s targeted killing of a key Iranian leader. […]
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn man who handed a wannabe ISIS fighter a stack of cash to cover his travel and weapon expenses bought himself a prison term Tuesday instead. Dilkhayot Kasimov was convicted in Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday of trying to […]
(NY Daily News) It was a three-minute crime with a 30-year penalty, a prosecutor said Tuesday in the trial of a Brooklyn man accused of financing a terrorist operation. Opening arguments began in the trial of Dilkhayot Kasimov, who is accused of […]
(Bergen Record) Muslim Americans say they’ve been singled out, detained and interrogated at airports — and elected officials are no exception. Mohamed Khairullah, the longtime mayor of Prospect Park, said he was held for three hours at JFK International Airport last month, […]
(NY Post) A Bronx man tried to run off and join the Taliban in Afghanistan so he could kill US soldiers there — but was captured in a Big Apple airport moments before boarding a plane, federal law enforcement officials announced. The […]
(Politico) John Walker Lindh walked out of prison last month and returned to American life, having served 17 years for providing support to the Taliban. But another American who pleaded guilty in a high-profile terrorism case after the Sept. 11 attacks is […]
(NY Post) A Manhattan man was arrested at JFK Airport for trying to leave the country to join a Pakistani terror organization, officials said Friday. Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion, 29, allegedly told an unnamed co-conspirator in November that he wanted to hook up […]
(NY Observer) The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will remove an art installation featuring a nine-foot-tall statue of Saudi Arabia’s flag from the World Trade Center campus. “We have been in contact with the 9/11 Memorial and various stakeholders, […]
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