(Sky News) Islamist terrorism may get a “further boost” from recent unrest in the Middle East, including the killing of the leader of Hamas, a former head of MI6 has warned. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the 7 October attack, was killed […]
(LBC) “Jaw-dropping” footage shows that Met Police officers working at a recent London march were unaware that Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist group. The officers, who were policing a march in central London last month, told a concerned bystander who informed them […]
(CNN) ISIS and al Qaeda present a “resurgent” threat to the United Kingdom, the head of the country’s domestic security service warned in a rare public intervention on Tuesday, as he outlined a changing landscape of terrorism that is increasingly relying on […]
(Sky News) The injured survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing are suing MI5, lawyers have said. It comes after the security service’s chief last year acknowledged a “slim” chance of thwarting the attack was missed, with 22 people killed and hundreds injured […]
(Times of Israel) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimages to Iran and Iraq to spy on Jews and Jewish targets in the United Kingdom, according to a Friday report citing Israeli and UK officials. According to the […]
(Sky News) The director general of MI5 has told Sky News his intelligence officers are “focused with particular intensity” on a growing risk of attacks within the UK following events in the Middle East. In a rare interview, Ken McCallum said: “Sadly, […]
(Jewish News) A respected communal leader has revealed he was warned by two counter-terrorism officers of a plot to assassinate him. The man, who spoke to the i newspaper with the agreement of anonymity, said the two officers had read out the […]
(BBC) MI5’s failure to prevent the Manchester Arena attack centred on a mistake so serious that it could be seen as negligent, the BBC has been told. The security agency apologised in March for not preventing the suicide bombing by Salman Abedi, […]
(IranWire) The UK government vowed to tackle the Islamic Republic of Iran’s “vile” activities in the country after a media investigation exposed hate speech among speakers at a British charity run by a representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Analysis of the […]
(BBC) MI5’s apology for not preventing the Manchester Arena attack is not “enough,” MPs have heard. The head of the security agency said on Thursday it was “profoundly sorry” that it did not thwart the suicide bombing in 2017 which killed 22 […]
(Sky News) The father of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing intends to sue MI5. Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos was one of the 22 people killed in the attack by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, in May 2017. Now her father, […]
(BBC) The head of MI5 said he was “profoundly sorry” the security service did not prevent the Manchester Arena attack. A public inquiry found MI5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have stopped the 2017 bombing. Chairman Sir John […]
(National-UAE) The number of investigations by UK counter-terrorism police into state threats has quadrupled in the past two years, with several “close calls,” a senior officer has said. Matt Jukes, head of counter-terrorism policing, described the workload as “unprecedented” and said it […]
(Iran International) A man arrested in the vicinity of Iran International’s headquarters and charged with a terrorism offence pleaded not guilty in a court session on Tuesday. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev (Mohammad-Hussein Dovtaev), 30, an Austrian national, was detained at Chiswick Business Park on […]
(National-UAE) Britain is facing growing interference, threats and influence from state actors including Iran, security minister Tom Tugendhat has warned. Since 10 Iranian plots were revealed in November more incidents have come to light. Foreign meddling of this nature, he said, poses […]
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(BBC) The government does not record the number of people prosecuted for terror offences after returning to the UK from Syria, an official report says. The data is held neither “officially or unofficially,” an annual review by the independent reviewer of terrorism […]
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(BBC) A total of 31 late-stage terror plots have been foiled in the UK in the past four years, the head of MI5 has said. Director general Ken McCallum, who revealed in October there had been 27 attacks thwarted since 2017, said […]
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(BBC) A senior MI5 officer will be allowed to give evidence anonymously from behind a screen at the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena attack. Families of the 22 people murdered in the 2017 bombing had argued against the move, feeling it […]
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