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Rights court tells France to reconsider repatriation of Islamic State wives Europe’s top rights court found that Paris’ decision about which of its nationals it accepted back from camps in northern Syria was arbitrary and should be reviewed by an independent body.

September 14, 2022 Molly Quell

(Courthouse News) The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday found France was in the wrong for refusing to repatriate two French women who joined the Islamic State terrorist group, ruling the process is too arbitrary. Paris violated a clause in the […]

Bataclan bomber’s widow and child repatriated to France

September 14, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) The wife of a terrorist who helped to murder dozens of people at Paris’s Bataclan concert hall in 2015 has been repatriated from Syria to France along with her three children. Kahina El H, who was married to suicide bomber […]

Aine Davis: Alleged fourth IS ‘Beatle’ arrested in UK on terror charges

August 10, 2022 Daniel Sandford and Doug Faulkner

(BBC) A man accused of being part of a notorious Islamic State group cell which murdered hostages has been arrested on terror charges in the UK. Aine Davis, of west London, flew into Luton airport after his release from a Turkish jail […]

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia

August 4, 2022 Vanessa Gera

(AP) Polish officials on Thursday reported a change in migration patterns across the country’s border with Belarus, with Africans who first traveled to Russia making up most of those seeking to enter Poland illegally by that route instead of people from the […]

U.S. judge gives Canadian man life in prison for aiding Islamic State

July 29, 2022 Rami Ayyub

(Reuters) A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to aiding Islamic State by working with propagandists who publicized the group’s beheading of hostages including American journalist James Foley. Mohammed […]

Canadian was ‘prolific propagandist’ in ISIS, U.S. prosecutors say

July 25, 2022 Stewart Bell

(Global News) U.S. prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a Canadian they call one of the “most prolific propagandists” in the so-called Islamic State. In materials filed in court ahead of his sentencing hearing, prosecutors said Mohammed Khalifa was a “formidable […]

After her time with ISIS, French prisoner seeks rehabilitation Meeting Emilie Konig reveals a young woman alienated from the society of her homeland

July 10, 2022 Colin Randall

(National-UAE) In the relative comfort of a prison outside Paris ― after nearly five years in a spartan Kurdish detention camp in north-eastern Syria ― a policeman’s daughter once described as a dangerous terrorist now talks of regaining “the life of a […]

Gunfights between Channel smugglers (LINK ONLY)

July 9, 2022 EoI News

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Sheffield man guilty of posting terror video after hospital bombing

July 8, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man has been convicted of disseminating Islamic State (IS) propaganda on social media after the bombing at a Liverpool hospital. Ahmiri Ahmedi Azizi, 24, from Sheffield, shared video footage the day after a device exploded in a taxi outside Liverpool […]

France repatriates 51 from Syria camps in policy change

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) France repatriated 35 children and 16 mothers from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday in the largest such operation by Paris after pressure from campaigners. The French government had long refused mass repatriations of […]

Police bust scheme to smuggle ‘thousands’ to UK in boats

July 5, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Police across several European countries on Tuesday launched a major coordinated crackdown on criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle people into the UK, British and German authorities said. Officers staged dawn raids in Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands […]

France charges nine suspects over Channel migrant disaster

July 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French prosecutors have charged nine men over their involvement in the November 2021 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, a judicial source said Friday. This takes the total number of people charged for their alleged role in the […]

Turkey set to deport ‘Islamic State Beatle’ Aine Davis to UK Aine Davis, who was convicted of membership of IS in 2017, is scheduled to be released and flown to the UK within days

June 30, 2022 Ragip Soylu and Simon Hooper

(Middle East Eye) An alleged member of an Islamic State (IS) execution cell dubbed “the Beatles” is scheduled to be deported from Turkey to the UK within days, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal. Aine Davis, who is originally from London, was […]

France holding 10 suspects over Channel migrant disaster

June 30, 2022 Eléonore Dermy

(AFP) French police are holding 10 people suspected of involvement in the November 2021 Channel drowning of migrants in which 27 people died, a judicial source said Thursday. One has been charged with manslaughter and people-trafficking, and the nine others were to […]

Stripping ISIS supporter of Dutch citizenship contravened human rights: Council of State

June 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) A decision to revoke the Dutch citizenship of a woman who spent five years in an ISIS-controlled area of Syria has been overturned by the Council of State because it contravenes her right to family life. Fatima H was stripped […]

American who joined Islamic State gets prison term reduced

June 28, 2022 Matthew Barakat

(AP) The first American to be convicted in a U.S. jury trial of joining the Islamic State had his prison term reduced Tuesday from 20 years to 14 years after an appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing. Mohamad Khweis was convicted […]

Norway: Deadly Pride attack suspect jailed, refuses to talk

June 27, 2022 Kostya Manenkov and Jan M. Olsen

(AP) The suspect in a deadly shooting ahead of an LGBTQ festival in the Norwegian capital, which authorities are treating as an Islamist attack, was ordered held Monday in pre-trial detention for four weeks — two of them in solitary confinement. He […]

Norway: Suspect in Pride Month attack won’t talk to police

June 26, 2022 Kostya Manenkov and Jari Tanner

(AP) The suspect in a mass shooting during an LGBTQ festival in Norway has refused to explain his actions to investigators and will remain in pretrial custody for the next four weeks, police and his defense lawyer said Sunday. The man, whom […]

Norway shaken by attack that kills 2 during Pride festival

June 25, 2022 Maria Sanminiatelli and Karl Ritter

(AP) A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s nightlife district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving more than 20 wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act” during the capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival. Investigators said the suspect, […]

Opposition MPs urge federal government to bring home Canadians detained in Syria

June 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) The NDP’s foreign affairs critic acknowledges the challenges related to Canadians being held in northern Syria, but says the federal government must step in to bring its citizens home. New Democrat MP Heather McPherson says the arbitrarily detained Canadians, including […]

Belgium repatriates six women and 16 children linked to Islamic State

June 21, 2022 Liv Klingert

(Brussels Times) After the liberation of Iraqi and Syrian territories from the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State (IS), certain European countries have chosen to repatriate the children of IS fighters as well as their mothers — if they possessed European citizenship. […]

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum fears she will be executed when she stands trial for terror offences (LINK ONLY)

June 11, 2022 EoI News

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Man suspected of joining Islamic State wins High Court challenge against government decision to strip him of his citizenship

June 8, 2022 Elizabeth Byrne and Matthew Doran

(ABC-Australia) A key plank of the federal government’s foreign fighter laws has been struck down by the High Court, with the nation’s top judges ruling that suspected terrorists cannot be stripped of their citizenship by the home affairs minister. The case before […]

Man ‘posted terror video’ after Liverpool hospital bombing

June 6, 2022 Unlisted Author

(BBC) An asylum seeker posted Islamic State (IS) propaganda on social media after the bombing at a Liverpool hospital, a jury has heard. Ahmiri Ahmedi Azizi, 24, from Sheffield, is said to have shared the footage the day after the attack. The […]

Dutch woman jailed on Syria terror charges

June 1, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The first woman to be brought home from Syria to stand trial in the Netherlands received a three-and-a-half-year prison term on Wednesday for joining the Islamic State group. The 28-year-old, identified only as Ilham B., was repatriated last year from the […]

Gardaí investigated Lisa Smith for training and recruiting people to ISIS (LINK ONLY)

May 31, 2022 EoI News

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Kurdish asylum seekers on hunger strike in Poland

May 27, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Ten Kurdish asylum seekers in Poland on Friday entered their third week of a hunger strike to protest what they described as prison-like conditions and a slow immigration process. “The strike began on May 4,” said Dagmara Bielec, a spokeswoman for […]

4 Albanian women, 9 children to be repatriated from Syria

May 27, 2022 Llazar Semini

(AP) Four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, are being repatriated from a Syrian camp, a Kurdish official from northeast Syria said Friday. Abdul-Karim Omar, an official who negotiates […]

French police clear Channel migrant camps after violence leaves one dead

May 25, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Police dismantled a camp housing hundreds of migrants near Dunkirk in northern France on Wednesday after one person was killed and three wounded in suspected score-settling between smugglers, authorities said. Around 500 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, had been living at the […]

Suspended sentence for German woman who joined IS aged 15

May 18, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria as a 15-year-old was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday but cleared of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity. Judges found Leonora Messing, now 22, guilty of membership […]

Belgium looks to bring families of IS fighters back from Syria

May 16, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Brussels Times) Belgium is looking into whether it can bring back the wives of ISIS fighters from Syria, Het Laatste Nieuws reported. In 2021, six women and ten children were repatriated, but it is not clear how many people will meet the […]

Court tells Dutch state to bring back more jihadi brides to face trial

May 13, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) Judges in Rotterdam have again ruled that the Dutch state must bring a group of mothers and children back to the Netherlands from Syria, in order to ensure the women are prosecuted. The court ruled in a closed hearing that […]

Erdogan opponents allege Greek border pushbacks

May 12, 2022 Marina Rafenberg

(AFP) For years Greece has been accused of illegally pushing asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a practice it strenuously denies. But according to witnesses and rights groups, the summary deportations are also hitting vulnerable opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kurdish writer […]

British children born to Islamic State parents at risk of being raised as ‘career terrorists’ in Syria camps (LINK ONLY)

April 28, 2022 EoI News

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Brit convicted as ‘Beatle’ in Islamic State beheadings trial

April 14, 2022 Matthew Barakat

(AP) A jury convicted a British national Thursday for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded. In convicting […]

‘Relentless abuse and torture’: Prosecution wraps evidence in trial of British Isis fighter as jury deliberates (LINK ONLY)

April 13, 2022 EoI News

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German court charges IS returnee over alleged slave abuse

April 12, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) A German woman who allegedly abused a Yazidi slave while in Islamic State-held territory in Syria has been charged with crimes against humanity and other offenses, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The woman, identified only as Jalda A. in keeping with German […]

US prosecutors rest case against Islamic State ‘Beatle’

April 12, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against an alleged member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles.” El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, declined the opportunity to testify in his own defense at his trial in a federal court in […]

Denmark to bring ISIS children home but not mothers

April 11, 2022 Charles Szumski

(Euractiv) Danish authorities have started planning the evacuation of five Danish children of ISIS fighters in the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj camp in Syria but their mothers will be left behind, Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said. The decision comes after a new medical report […]

Yazidi woman testifies about IS leader’s treatment of US hostage Kayla Mueller

April 11, 2022 Charlotte Plantive

(AFP) A young Yazidi woman testified on Monday that American aid worker Kayla Mueller told her she was raped by former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and threatened with death if she tried to escape. Lia Mulla, who was captured by […]

Former hostages unmask Islamic State ‘Beatle’ at trial

April 9, 2022 Charlotte Plantive

(AFP) Former hostages taking the witness stand at the trial of their alleged Islamic State group captor have described their brutal treatment in chilling detail. Eight former IS hostages have testified so far at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of […]

Ex-MSF worker testifies at trial of IS ‘Beatle’

April 7, 2022 Charlotte Plantive

(AFP) A former Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker held for three months in Syria in 2014 by the Islamic State group testified on Thursday to the particularly brutal treatment meted out to American and British hostages. Frida Saide, a Swede, revealed details […]

IS captives were forced to sing ‘Hotel Osama’: French hostage

April 6, 2022 Charlotte Plantive

(AFP) A French journalist held by the Islamic State in Syria testified Wednesday that he and other hostages were forced by their captors to sing a depraved parody of the Eagles song “Hotel California” called “Hotel Osama.” “It was terrifying for us, […]

How the Islamic State trial could change the future of US terrorism cases (LINK ONLY)

April 2, 2022 EoI News

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Germany repatriates women, children from Syrian camp

March 31, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) Germany says it has brought home 10 women and 27 children from a camp in northeastern Syria where suspected members of the Islamic State group have been held. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the group was repatriated from the Roj camp […]

El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of being one of the Islamic State ‘Beatles’

March 29, 2022 Charlotte Plantive

(AFP) El Shafee Elsheikh studied mechanical engineering in London, but now faces accusations he was a member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles.” Elsheikh is on trial in federal court in Alexandria for the murders of American […]

Ex-hostages, relatives seek accountability at IS ‘Beatles’ trial

March 29, 2022 Charlotte Plantive

(AFP) Former hostages and relatives of victims are seeking justice, accountability and perhaps even some solace as the trial of a member of the brutal Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” gets underway. Jury selection began on Tuesday in […]

Why Belgium is still a terror risk

March 28, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Brussels Times) Six years ago, it felt like extremist terrorism would haunt us permanently. The March 2016 bombs in the Brussels metro and airport left 35 people dead. They came after the November 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 138. Jihadists claimed […]

In the wake of defence walk-out, Abdeslam and Amri testify at Paris terror trial

March 17, 2022 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) The terrorist survivor of the Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam resumed his evidence late on Wednesday, after the court had heard and dismissed claims of prejudice from some of the defence lawyers. It was as if Tuesday’s mass walk-out by the […]

IS member arrested in Germany accused of raising funds in Europe According to the German prosecutor's office, the woman traveled to Syria in 2013 with her husband to join the organization.

March 12, 2022 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) A German citizen accused of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist organization was arrested this Friday upon arrival at the Frankfurt airport (southern Germany), as announced today (03.12.2022) by the State Attorney General’s Office. The woman, who was identified […]