(Iran International) Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is using online grooming tactics to recruit potential operatives in Britain, a report by the Daily Express said on Friday, one day after London vowed to frustrate what it called escalating Iranian threats to people on UK […]
(Sky News) The Prevent scheme needs to “rapidly” adapt to the online world “where so much radicalisation takes place,” an independent review has found. The anti-extremism programme has been under increased scrutiny after two recent terror incidents involving Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana […]
(Iran International) A parliamentary report in the UK is set to warn that Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British security, according to the Telegraph, while a separate investigation in Italy has uncovered a vast influence network supporting the […]
(BBC) On 7 July 2005, 52 people were killed and hundreds more injured in bombings targeting London’s transport network during rush hour. The attacks sent shockwaves across the world — but particularly so in Leeds where three of the four suicide bombers […]
(Sky News) Radicalised nine-year-olds, teenagers mixing incel culture with extreme right ideologies and a Muslim who idolises Hitler — this is just some of the casework of those tasked with deradicalising young extremists in the UK. Monday will mark 20 years since […]
(Iran International) Iran’s ambassador to London has dismissed allegations that the Islamic Republic was involved in threats against UK-based Iranian journalists in his first appearance before the UK Parliament. Ambassador Ali Mousavi was attending a meeting of the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs […]
(BBC) A service has been held to mark the fifth anniversary of a deadly attack in a park in which three men were killed. James Furlong, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and David Wails were fatally stabbed by Khairi Saadallah in Forbury Gardens, Reading, Berkshire, […]
(Sky News) Three Iranian nationals charged with spying offences have appeared in court. Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 55, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday, charged with offences under the National Security Act. They […]
(BBC) The chairman of the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing has said he hopes to get “acceptable answers” from MI5 at a meeting to discuss what steps have been taken to prevent further attacks. Sir John Saunders made a range of […]
(National-UAE) Britain will introduce new laws to allow the security services to proscribe state-based groups such as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the home secretary has said. Following the arrests of eight Iranians allegedly involved in a plot to attack the […]
(BBC) Britain and Iran have summoned each other’s envoys after three Iranians were charged with spying in the UK. Three Iranian men were arrested on 3 May and appeared in court in London on Saturday on charges of spying for the Islamic […]
(BBC) Searches are continuing at a number of addresses after five men were arrested on Saturday over an alleged terror plot in the UK. Home Office minister Dan Jarvis said hundreds of officers were carrying out forensic investigations and collecting evidence at […]
(BBC) Four men are continuing to be questioned by police over an alleged terror plot in the UK. The men, who are Iranian nationals, are being held over an alleged plan to target “a specific premises,” the Metropolitan Police said. A fifth […]
(GB News) A terror attack was just “hours away” from being committed on “specific premises” before being foiled by the authorities. Officers arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, in a move Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described as one of the biggest […]
(Sky News) These are two separate and unrelated investigations by counter-terror officers. But the common thread is nationality — seven out of the eight people arrested are Iranian. And that comes in the context of increased warnings from government and the security […]
(GB News) A jihadi bride who travelled to Syria to join Isis could be allowed to return to Britain. Immigration judges ruled that the Home Office should not block her from coming back because she needs medical care and has a son. […]
(Press Release) The latest data released by the Home Office shows that more people have been arrested for terrorism-related offences in 2024 than in the four years previously. Last year, the police made 248 arrests, which is the highest number of arrests […]
(Sky News) Anybody who works for — or is a proxy of — the Iranian state will have to register their presence in the UK or face jail time. Security minister Dan Jarvis said Iran, including its IRGC intelligence services and the […]
(Jewish News) Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has suggested the anti-terror Prevent programme has been underestimating the threat posed by Islamist extremism. Dan Jarvis told the Commons that Islamist referrals into [the] Prevent programme increased by 17 per cent last year. But […]
(BBC) There are no plans to expand the definition of extremism, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said, following reports it could be broadened to cover potentially violent environmentalists and misogynists. He said Islamist extremism followed by far-right extremism were the biggest […]
(Politico) Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a fresh warning about the dangers of online radicalization, as he pointed out that the teenager who carried out July’s deadly Southport attack, Axel Rudakubana, watched violent online content before killing three young girls in a […]
(Bloomberg) A 15-year-old boy gets into a taxi outside Stockholm hiding a loaded gun and asks to be taken to the Israeli embassy. A 13-year-old in Gothenburg is caught firing shots at Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. At the same facility, a […]
(BBC) Just after 07:30 on 6 September last year, Skye Vokins was driving along the dual carriageway south of Wandsworth Roundabout, in London. Scarcely believing her eyes, she saw a man land on the road beneath the rear axle of a delivery […]
(Sky News) A former British soldier who escaped from Wandsworth Prison has been found guilty of spying for Iran. Daniel Khalife, 23, who was a lance corporal in the Royal Signals, used a sling made from trousers worn by inmates working in […]
(BBC) A father whose daughter was killed in the Manchester Arena attack has described the decision to block legal action against MI5 as “pathetic.” Andrew Roussos’s daughter Saffie-Rose, eight, was the youngest of the 22 people killed in the bombing in 2017. […]
(Sky News) Hundreds of people affected by the Manchester Arena bombing cannot continue legal action against MI5, judges have ruled. More than 300 people, including survivors and those bereaved by the 2017 attack at an Ariana Grande concert, brought a case to […]
(Sky News) Daniel Khalife, the former soldier accused of spying for Iran, entered a “new phase” of his relationship with his handlers during a series of calls from a base in the US, a court has heard. Khalife told his trial his […]
(Sky News) A former soldier accused of spying for Iran has pleaded guilty to escaping from prison under a food catering truck and going on the run for four days while he was awaiting trial. Daniel Khalife, 23, from Kingston, southwest London, […]
(BBC) MI5 showed “institutional defensiveness rather than candour” after the Manchester Arena attack and for years continued to present an “inaccurate picture” of what it had known about the suicide bomber, a tribunal has been told. Twenty-two people died and hundreds were […]
(Sky News) A former soldier has told a jury his escape from Wandsworth prison to avoid being held with sex offenders and terrorists showed his “skillset.” Daniel Khalife, 23, who was being held accused of passing secrets to Iran, said he was […]
(Sky News) A soldier was only arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran after he twice emailed MI6 and then rang MI5 twice offering to be a double agent, a court has heard. Daniel Khalife, 23, from Kingston, southwest London, is accused […]
(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) The contents of notebooks purportedly belonging to Daniel Khalife, the former soldier accused of spying for Iran, have been released for the first time. The black notebooks, released on Wednesday during Khalife’s spying trial, appear to show his plans to distribute […]
(BBC) A former British soldier accused of spying has claimed he made up much of the information he sent to the Iranians. Daniel Khalife, 23, is on trial at Woolwich Crown Court on charges of collecting sensitive military information for Iran as […]
(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 […]
(BBC) A former British army soldier who is accused of being a spy for Iran and escaping from Wandsworth Prison last year offered to go for training in Iran, a court heard. The jury at his Woolwich Crown Court trial heard the […]
(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 […]
(Iran International) An Iranian dissident man was gang-raped in Germany by four men who are believed to be Islamic Republic loyalists, in an attack that has shocked the town of Iserlohn in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to German media reports. The incident, which […]
(BBC) A British man who had been investigated by MI5 threatened to shoot worshippers at a US synagogue as he demanded the release of a Pakistani scientist jailed in the country, an inquest has heard. Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was […]
(BBC) The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been,” according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudary. The Islamist preacher from east London is […]
(Sky News) Anjem Choudary has been jailed for life with a minimum of 28 years for directing a terrorist propaganda operation aimed at encouraging attacks and spreading messages of “hate and division.” Choudary, 57, from Ilford, East London, helped found al-Muhajiroun (ALM) […]
(BBC) The extremist preacher Anjem Choudary has been found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation. Choudary, one of the most important radicalisers in the UK, was caught in an international undercover investigation into his long-banned organisation. Officers in the US and Canada […]
(Sky News) Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist preacher, is facing life in jail after he was found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation following an unprecedented joint investigation by MI5, Scotland Yard, the New York Police Department, and Canadian police. Choudary, 57, […]
(Reuters) More than 800 asylum seekers arrived in Britain via small boats on Tuesday, the highest single-day figure since late 2022, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a July 4 national election. Provisional data from Britain’s interior ministry […]
(Sky News) When three men were stabbed to death in Reading’s Forbury Gardens on Saturday, 20 June 2020, Nick Harborne instantly knew Khairi Saadallah was responsible. “Something inside me just went cold,” he told Sky News. The chief executive of the Reading […]
(National-UAE) Iran’s malign influence in the UK poses a “multidimensional threat to British society” with the government being urged to take urgent action to counter it, an influential think tank has stated. The paper, which was written before Iran’s missile attack 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 […]
(Iran International) Pouria Zeraati, the television host of the “Last Word” program on Iran International, was attacked by a group of unidentified individuals as he exited his residence in London on Friday. Zeraati, who was attacked in the early afternoon in south […]
(LBC) British people are being made less safe by the government’s failure to tackle Islamist extremism, an independent reviewer of its anti-extremism scheme has warned. William Shawcross, who recommended overhauling the Prevent programme to put more of a focus on Islamic extremism, […]
(Sky News) MI5 “triaged” a violent offender four times before he carried out a terrorist knife attack and killed three men in a park in Reading, an inquest has heard. The agency received intelligence including threats by Khairi Saadallah to “blow himself […]
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