(DPA) A German court on Tuesday handed prison terms to three defendants charged with supporting Islamic State, finding them guilty of collecting donations for the terrorist group between 2020 and 2021. A 26-year-old woman holding German and Moroccan citizenship was given three […]
(Reuters) Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Saturday. If created, the enclave for the […]
(Newsweek) Richard Grenell, an ally of President-elect Donald Trump who is set to serve in a key diplomatic role soon, pushed back against a social media post by Republican Florida state Senator Randy Fine that called Islam a “fundamentally broken and dangerous […]
(NY Times) The Muslim cleric preparing to lead what, if everything goes as planned, will become the world’s smallest state, has laid-back plans for the tiny new country. His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave […]
(Ynet) Serbian police shot and killed Sanad Ramović, a key figure connected to a crossbow attack outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade, during an operation on Saturday night. Ramović, who was associated with the June 29 attack, was located in a village […]
(AP) Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to take steps to protect Palestinians in the United States as Israeli forces continue to fight Hamas militants inside Gaza City and thousands flee the area amid increasingly dire humanitarian circumstances. In […]
(AP) Hundreds of Serbian officers were dispatched Saturday into a border area with Hungary, where they detained several people after a shooting between migrants killed three people and injured one, police said. Reports of violence and gun battles have become common near […]
(NY Times) In 2013, Mirsad Kandic began working with the Islamic State, helping to advance its campaign of global jihad. Over the next four years, he fought in at least one battle and operated from safe houses in Syria, Turkey and Bosnia, […]
(NL Times) The German authorities have identified a Dutch suspect in an extensive investigation into the funding of the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS), the German Public Prosecution Service reported. The Dutch person has not been arrested, but the authorities did raid […]
(AP) Albanian police on Friday said they have arrested six migrant traffickers for allegedly organizing an illegal border crossing for people from Arab countries and opening fire on border police. No injures were reported. A police statement said that the traffickers were […]
(AP) A teenager accused of planning an Islamist-motivated attack in Germany was arrested Thursday, the federal prosecutor’s office said. The dual German-Kosovar citizen detained in the western town of Iserlohn allegedly was under the influence of an Islamic State group follower who […]
(AP) Swiss police arrested two people Thursday in connection with a federal investigation into their suspected support for, or participation in, the banned Islamic State group, authorities said. The police operation, which also involved searches of four houses in the Geneva and […]
(ANSA) A young man and a young woman are under investigation for allegedly planning a terrorist attack involving explosives in Italy in the name of the Islamic State (IS), Carabinieri police said on Friday. The pair allegedly planned to flee to Africa […]
(ITV) A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after he was stopped by police at a UK airport. The 40-year-old man was intercepted by officers as he arrived at Luton Airport on Wednesday after boarding a flight from Kosovo, […]
(AP) Albania’s Interior Ministry said Saturday that four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, have been repatriated from a Syrian camp. The group, which landed at the Pristina Adem […]
(Reuters) Two men suspected by Germany of assisting an Islamist gunman, who killed four people in Vienna in 2020, used the major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, German federal police said in a confidential letter seeking information from the company. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police […]
(National-UAE) Jailed ISIS fighters in Europe may have been radicalised further in prison by the time they are released, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has said. Thomas Haldenwang sounded the alarm over extremists due to be released in 2022 after […]
(Anadolu) Former members of the Daesh/ISIS terror group and their families in camps and prisons of northeastern Syria mean “a ticking bomb” for European security, the EU’s new counter-terrorism chief said on Tuesday. Speaking for the first time at the European Parliament’s […]
(Washington Examiner) Almost none of the 82,000 people airlifted from Kabul in August were vetted before being admitted to the United States, despite claims to the contrary from the Biden administration, according to a congressional memo summarizing interviews with federal officials who […]
(AFP) Police in Italy arrested a 19-year-old Italian-Kosovar woman on Wednesday accused of belonging to the Islamic State group, who was said to be “willing to become a martyr” and had ties to the Vienna attacker. The woman, identified only by the […]
(AP) The U.S. is welcoming tens of thousands of Afghans airlifted out of Kabul but has disclosed little publicly about a small group who remain overseas: dozens who triggered potential security issues during security vetting and have been sent to an American […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police in the German state of Hesse searched multiple locations in connection with investigations involving suspected “Islamic State” extremists, local authorities said Wednesday morning. Ten search warrants were executed across the state “on suspicion of terrorist financing and the preparation […]
(Deutsche Welle) German police announced Wednesday they raided the homes of two alleged accomplices of the November 2020 terror attack in Vienna that left four dead and more than 20 injured. The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe said the two accused, […]
(Reuters) “Stop Extremism!” urges a red billboard in a quiet village outside Zurich above an image of a scowling woman wearing a black headscarf and face veil. The billboard is part of a campaign by the far-right Swiss People’s Party (SVP) to […]
(AP) Protesters clashed with police in North Macedonia’s capital Friday after a court this week upheld the terrorism-related convictions of ethnic Albanian men accused of killings nine years ago that inflamed ethnic tensions in the Balkan country. At least seven policemen were […]
(AP) A computer hacker serving 20 years for giving the Islamic State group the personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel has been granted compassionate release because of the coronavirus pandemic and will be placed in ICE custody […]
(AP) A computer hacker who gave the Islamic State group personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison after a judge rejected his request for compassionate release. Ardit Ferizi, 24, is serving a […]
(Breitbart) The German city of Göttingen in Lower Saxony has seen a fresh wave of hundreds of Chinese coronavirus infections, with some blaming them on an alleged illegal party to mark the end of Ramadan. At least 200 people have been infected with […]
(AP) A man from Kosovo has been charged in Germany with supporting a terrorist organization on allegations he funneled money to the Islamic State in Syria and spread propaganda for the extremist group, federal prosecutors said Monday. The suspect, identified only as […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland’s top court has upheld a decision to not renew the residence permit of an imam from Kosovo guilty of domestic abuse. The Federal Court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision of the St Gallen court in eastern Switzerland where the man lives. […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany players Ilkay Gündogan and Emre Can have found themselves mixed up in the contentious debate over a military salute celebration performed by Turkish international footballers, after the pair both liked an Instagram post showing the celebrations. The two German-born […]
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