Immigration
Calais migrants facing ‘very dangerous’ conditions as temperatures drop (LINK ONLY)
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Kurds
Legal
Belgium sentences two ISIS fighters to five years in jail Boutallis was killed in a suicide attack in Iraq in November 2015. Since their death was not officially confirmed, both were still put on trial.
(Kurdistan 24) Belgian Islamic State (ISIS) fighters Olivier Calebout and Lucas Van Hessche have been sentenced to five years in jail by a court in Bruges, Belgium, for their membership in the group, Belgian media reported. The Belgian newspaper HLN reported that […]
News: Europe
Sweden releases ISIS women suspected of committing war crimes
(Breitbart) Three Islamic State women were flown back to Sweden last week with their children from Syria and arrested for war crimes, but all three have subsequently been released. The three Islamist women were brought back to Sweden on Thursday evening and taken […]
Children & Teens
Sweden repatriates 3 women accused of ties to ISIS, 8 children from Syria
(Kurdistan 24) The Kurdish-led civilian administration in northeastern Syria, officially called the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), handed over 3 Swedish women suspected of ISIS affiliation and 8 children to a Swedish government team on Wednesday. They “were handed […]
Government & Politics
Netherlands to soon bring back more ISIS-affiliated women to stand trial
(NL Times) The Netherlands will soon bring back more women affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS, the AD reported. On Monday, a session will be held in the Rotterdam court regarding 13 women suspected of being affiliated with ISIS. The judge stated […]
Children & Teens
Islamic State families evacuated from Syrian camp and back in Denmark Three [women] and 14 children back on Danish soil after arriving in the early hours of Thursday morning
(Copenhagen Post) Three women and 14 children — who were yesterday evacuated from the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria, where the inmates are primarily the families of slain or captured Islamic State warriors — arrived in Denmark at around 03:00 […]
Children & Teens
Islamic State mother Nicole Jack says ‘don’t sweep us under carpet’
(BBC) A British woman who joined the Islamic State group with her young children has said UK politicians should “open your minds” to allowing them to return. Nicole Jack and her three daughters are currently being held in a detention camp in […]
Government & Politics
ISIS women deported to Sweden were too dangerous to keep in Syria
(Breitbart) Documents from the Swedish state department reveal that Kurdish authorities wanted Sweden to take back Islamic State women from prison camps as they deemed them too dangerous to remain in Syria. On September 5th, three Islamic State women and their children […]
Children & Teens
Germany repatriates 8 women, 23 children with ties to IS
(AFP) Germany has repatriated eight women who joined the IS terror group and 23 children from northern Syria in the biggest such transfer since 2019, the foreign ministry said. “The children are not responsible for their situation … the mothers will have […]
Legal
Canada should have prosecuted Toronto man who was ‘voice of ISIS,’ lawyer says
(Global News) A Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria and flown to the United States to stand trial should have been prosecuted in Canada, a lawyer representing his family said Monday. “If there is evidence against Canadians who are being arbitrarily detained […]
Law Enforcement
Canadian ISIS member caught in Syria flown to U.S. to face terrorism charges
(Global News) A Canadian who was allegedly “a leading figure” in the ISIS media section has been taken to the United States to face terrorism charges, the U.S. Justice Department said Saturday. The FBI took custody of Mohamed Khalifa from Kurdish forces […]
Immigration
French police open fire on migrants’ dinghy on Dunkirk beach with potentially lethal rubber bullets (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Why Canada took 18 months to get an orphan out of a Syrian detention camp
(Global News) On Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, a Canadian government delegation crossed the Tigris River into northeast Syria to take custody of a five-year-old orphan. Amira was the only survivor of a Canadian family killed by an airstrike during the fight against […]
Children & Teens
Families of ISIS detainees held in Syria take Canada to court over inaction
(Global News) The families of more than two dozen Canadians held at prisons and camps for ISIS detainees in Syria have filed a case in the Federal Court accusing the government of failing to bring them home. Eleven families, which were not […]
Academics & Education
Finland secretly organised distance learning for Finnish children in al-Hol camp
(Helsinki Times) According to several sources, Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised a distance learning programme for Finnish children being held in Syria’s al-Hol camp without the knowledge of Kurdish authorities. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with other ministries and […]
Law Enforcement
Sweden arrests two women linked to IS
(AFP) Swedish police said Monday they had arrested two women linked to the Islamic State group after they flew back from Syria, as media reported that one was being investigated for war crimes. Stockholm police spokesman Ola Osterling said the prosecutor leading […]
Legal
British Isis member who used Bitcoin to free jihadis from Syrian prisons jailed for 12 years (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Germany arrests suspected ‘Islamic State’ fundraiser A woman has been detained in southern Germany on suspicion of aiding the terror group 'Islamic State.' Prosecutors believe she may have helped organize money transfers to militants in the Middle East.
(Deutsche Welle) German federal prosecutors arrested a woman on Monday suspected of collecting money for the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group and helping with bank transfers to the Middle East. The suspect, identified only as Denise S., is thought to have been in contact with […]
Immigration
Latvia starts pushing back migrants at tense Belarus border
(Reuters) Latvian border guards turned back dozens of migrants into Belarus overnight under a new state of emergency designed to stem a flow of arrivals the European Union says is orchestrated by Minsk. At daybreak on Wednesday some 30 migrants — including […]
Legal
Concern over struggle to prosecute Isis returnees as Turkey deportations loom (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
A young American girl whose mother joined ISIS and died has been rescued, a former US diplomat says Eight-year-old Aminah Mohamad, the daughter of an American woman from Tennessee who joined ISIS in 2014, awaits her fate outside a Syrian detention camp.
(BuzzFeed) An American-born girl who grew up under ISIS control was rescued from a Syrian detention camp last month after the girl’s mother — a US citizen who left the country and in 2014 joined the terrorist organization — and her father […]
Citizenship
Britain cannot remove Isis members’ citizenship without telling them, High Court rules (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Man admits sharing Islamic State beheading videos
(BBC) A British man who went to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group has admitted sharing beheading videos. Stefan Aristidou, 27, entered guilty pleas to four terrorism offences at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in September. BBC research […]
Legal
German woman indicted over her time with IS in Syria
(AP) A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group and whose husband bought a Yazidi woman as a slave has been charged with membership in a terror group and being an accessory to a crime against humanity, […]
Children & Teens
From Syria to Belgium: Women to face courts after repatriation with children Six women who are suspected of ties to Islamic State were returned to [Belgium] with children. One tells MEE she was ready to face justice in order to secure her child's safety
(Middle East Eye) On 16 July, the majority of the women and children held at al-Roj camp were still asleep when a convoy of cars entered the open-air prison in northeastern Syria. A few minutes later, at around 5.30am, six Belgian [women] […]
Government & Politics
Charges approved against Canadian ISIS fighter detained in Syria, documents reveal
(Global News) Prosecutors have approved charges against a captured Canadian ISIS fighter, according to documents that show how federal officials have dealt with citizens detained in Syria. The approved charges are the first known to have been authorized against a Canadian member […]
Immigration
Number of English Channel crossings surpasses 2020 record five months quicker (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
English Channel crossings continue as numbers approach 2020 record (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
IS mothers and children arrive in Belgium from Syria
(Brussels Times) This morning a military aircraft landed at Melsbroek airfield outside Brussels, carrying six women and ten children repatriated from a refugee camp in Syria. The women, aged between 25 and 53 years, have been held in the Kurdish-run camp Roj […]
Children & Teens
Finland repatriates women and children with links to ISIS from northeast Syria
(Kurdistan 24) Finland is bringing home a family with ties to ISIS from northeast Syria on Friday as part of the government’s efforts to rescue children from violent displacement camps. Ambassador Jussi Tanner, the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s special envoy in charge of […]
Children & Teens
Belgium takes back mothers and children from Syria jihadist camps
(BBC) Ten children and six mothers held in a prison camp for jihadists in Syria have been flown home to Belgium. It is the biggest repatriation of suspected Islamic State (IS) members since the group’s fall in 2019. Hundreds of Europeans who […]
Government & Politics
Dutch state given three months to repatriate five more IS women
(Dutch News) The cabinet has been given three months to show it is making an effort to repatriate five Dutch women from Kurdish prison camps in Syria so that they can attend their trials on terrorism charges in person, broadcaster NOS has […]
Government & Politics
Fears IS women could return to NL after escaping Kurdish camps
(Dutch News) Around 15 Dutch women who joined IS forces during the Syrian civil war escaped from Kurdish detention camps in the past year, ministers have admitted. Caretaker foreign affairs minister Sigrid Kaag and defence minister Ank Bijleveld told parliament that around […]
Legal
Isis member convicted for sending Bitcoin from UK to free terrorists from Syrian prisons (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Mother of Canadian woman detained in Syrian camp wants answers after another woman freed Ottawa denies involvement in women’s release from ISIS detention camp
(CBC) The mother of a Canadian woman held in a detention camp for family members of ISIS militants in northeast Syria for four years wants to know why her daughter remains there, after another Canadian woman was released with the help of […]
Children & Teens
Taught to use a gun aged 8: The chilling story of 13-year-old ‘caliphate cub’ locked up in prison for child ISIS fighters (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Shamima Begum poses ‘no danger’ and should be free to return to UK, says ex-US diplomat (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Unsealed documents show RCMP intends to charge captured ISIS fighter Mohammed Khalifa is believed to be English voice of violent ISIS propaganda videos
(CBC) Court documents unsealed last week reveal that the RCMP intends to charge a Canadian ISIS foreign fighter with a string of terrorism offences. Since his capture by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in January 2019, Mohammed Khalifa, a self-confessed ISIS fighter from Toronto, has been […]
News: North America
Mother of Canadian girl freed from ISIS detention camp in Syria released Canadian held at Al Roj camp believed to be in Iraq after U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith helps secure release
(CBC) A Canadian woman being held in an ISIS detention camp in northeast Syria has been released with the help of the former U.S. diplomat who helped get her four-year-old daughter out of the camp and to relatives in Canada earlier this […]
Government & Politics
US presses allies to repatriate IS fighters
(AFP) Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday pressed US allies to bring back citizens arrested overseas for joining the Islamic State group, warning they could not be held indefinitely in Syria. Blinken made the appeal in Rome at a meeting of […]
Children & Teens
Islamic State families in camps could return to Sweden this summer
(Breitbart) Female members of the Islamic State currently in prison camps in Syria, along with their children, could be all returning to Sweden this summer. Several days ago, a Swedish delegation comprised of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre […]
Law Enforcement
RCMP preparing charges against Toronto IT worker who became ‘voice of ISIS,’ document reveals
(Global News) A former Toronto IT worker, known as the “voice of ISIS” because he narrated its gruesome execution videos, is being investigated by the RCMP for “serious terrorism offences,” a court document unsealed Tuesday reveals. The RCMP alleged in the top-secret […]
Legal
Ontario man pleads guilty to trying to join ISIS, charges against wife to be dropped
(Global News) An Ontario man admitted Monday he left Toronto with his wife almost two years ago to join the so-called Islamic State. At a court appearance in Brampton, Ont., Ikar Mao, 23, pleaded guilty to leaving Canada to participate in the […]
Arts & Entertainment
New-look jihadi bride Shamima Begum says she was a ‘dumb kid’ when she fled to Syria aged 15 (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
NL must bring back more women from Syria to face trial: lawyer
(Dutch News) The Netherlands should … bring back a further eight Dutch women and their children from Syria, or they will escape trial on terrorism charges, their lawyer André Seebregts has told Trouw. This weekend, the Netherlands brought back one woman and […]
Legal
Cabinet brings back woman from Syria with alleged ties to ISIS to begin trial
(NL Times) Ilham B. was picked up in Syria on Friday by a Dutch delegation who will transfer her to the Netherlands. B. went to Syria in 2013 when she was 19-years-old to join the terrorist organization ISIS. She was brought back […]
Children & Teens
Dutch woman, three children repatriated from Syria IS camp
(AP) The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast handed over on Saturday to the Netherlands a Dutch woman, her two young sons, and a Dutch girl, who lived in a camp for families of alleged Islamic State militants. A delegation from the Netherlands […]
Arts & Entertainment
Shamima Begum says she feared being ‘the one left behind’ if mates went to Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
Muslim extremists stage Nazi-style rally attacking Israel in center of Hamburg, Germany, despite ceasefire in Middle East
(Algemeiner) Antisemitic demonstrations targeting Israel have continued to be staged by Islamist groups in Germany, despite the May 21 ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. In a sinister display last Friday that brought to mind demonstrations by neo-Nazi […]
Arts & Entertainment
Ex-college student who left Alabama to join ISIS explains herself and why she wants to come home 'When you are brainwashed, you don't realize it until you snap out of it,' Hoda Muthana says in the new documentary The Return — though the U.S. government says there's not reason to be so sympathetic
(People) Six years ago, Hoda Muthana was a 20-year-old college student in Alabama who lied to her family about a trip and instead joined the Islamic State in Syria. When she arrived she was confined to a home for unwed women, with […]