(Anadolu) German police arrested a senior figure of the PKK terrorist organization in Hamburg, authorities announced Tuesday. The 54-year-old suspect was arrested on strong suspicion of membership and a leadership role in a foreign terrorist organization, according to a statement from Saxony’s […]
(Algemeiner) Hamas has expanded its terrorist operations beyond the Middle East, exploiting a long-established network of weapons caches, criminal alliances, and covert infrastructure that has been quietly built across Europe for years, according to a new report. Earlier this month, West Point’s […]
(Free Beacon) Shoppers, diners, and commuters in the Dearborn, Mich., area will now head to their favorite hot spot on a street named in honor of Osama Siblani, an Arab-American newspaper publisher who has advocated for Israel’s destruction, praised terror groups like […]
(Ynet) There is a dramatic rise in the name “Mohammed” and its variations across Europe, the Daily Mail said in a report, underscoring demographic changes linked to immigration. According to the report, over the past 25 years, the number of babies given […]
(TVP) A 17-year-old from the southeastern Podkarpackie province who promoted Islamic terror online has been charged with preparing a mass attack, say prosecutors. The youth is charged with preparing a mass attack against a group of people based on their religious or […]
(Reuters) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that a court ruling against the expulsion by border police of three Somali asylum seekers could restrict his government’s migration crackdown but would not stop it. People would continue to be turned away at […]
(DPA) In a legal setback for the German government, a Berlin court ruled on Monday that rejecting asylum seekers at border checks within German territory — without first initiating proper asylum procedures — is unlawful. The urgent decision by the Berlin Administrative […]
(Politico) The head of the Council of Europe on Saturday pushed back against a call by nine EU countries to make it easier to expel migrants who commit crime. COE Secretary-General Alain Berset warned that courts must not be “weaponized” for political […]
(AP) Leaders of 9 European Union countries say they want a reinterpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights in order to better tackle irregular migration to the continent and increase deportations. The leaders said in an open letter made public in […]
(DPA) Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a law that allows for authorities to temporarily suspend the right of migrants to apply for asylum under emergency conditions, citing the need to strengthen the border with Belarus. Under the new law, in the […]
(Politico) Poland is moving ahead with a controversial new law, backed by European Union leaders, to suspend access to asylum for new arrivals crossing into the country through Belarus after accusing Moscow of weaponizing migration flows to upend security in the region. […]
(Politico) Polish border forces regularly force migrants back into Belarus, with reports of people being beaten, stripped of their clothes and left stranded in forests without food, shelter or medical care, according to a new report from Oxfam and Polish nongovernmental organization […]
(DPA) Four suspected members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, accused of having maintained secret weapons depots for the radical Islamist organization in several European countries. “For the first time in Germany, people are facing […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Debbie Dingell (D., Mich.), who leads a committee tasked with communicating “where House Democrats stand” on key issues, recently paid tribute to an anti-Israel activist who hailed the leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah as a “hero” and has […]
(Free Beacon) One of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D.) guests on an official state trip to the Middle East this week is an anti-Israel activist who hailed the leader of Hezbollah as a “hero” and recently called for Jews to be sent […]
(European Conservative) Patryk Jaki MEP (Law and Justice; PiS) is beginning his “special trial” in Poland, after “liking” a Twitter post back in 2018 that showcased real security footage of migrant criminals. Polish prosecutors requested a three-year prison sentence for this “hate […]
(Reuters) Surrounded by lush forests, a dozen people huddled near a razor-tipped fence along the Belarus border, waiting for a chance to scale it or push aside its slats to head west into Poland. On the other side, armed Polish border guards […]
(Notes from Poland) Police officers serving on the border with Belarus have been ordered to carry firearms due to “growing aggression” from migrants. There have recently been several attacks on Polish officers and yesterday a soldier died after being stabbed while attempting […]
(Notes from Poland) Politicians from both the government and opposition have reacted angrily after news emerged that three soldiers were detained by military police for firing warning shots at a group of migrants trying to force their way across the border from […]
(Politico) A Polish soldier has died after being stabbed by a migrant on the country’s border with Belarus, Warsaw’s military said Thursday. The soldier was involved in a clash with migrants attempting to cross Poland’s northeast border from Belarus on May 28, […]
(AP) A Somali woman pushes her bandaged hand between two vertical bars of a thick metal barrier separating Belarus from Poland as she and four other women gaze toward the European Union. They nod gratefully as a Polish humanitarian aid worker calls […]
(AP) Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that its forces would further fortify the border with Belarus and can use “all available means” to defend the NATO nation’s frontier, after a soldier was seriously wounded with a knife by a migrant. […]
(TVP) A migrant attempting to illegally cross the border from Belarus into Poland stabbed a Polish soldier on Tuesday, the deputy interior minister reported. The soldier was immediately taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. The attack occurred during a […]
(AFP) Poland has dismantled an alleged migrant trafficking network at the Polish-Belarusian border which was suspected of providing millions of dollars in financing to armed groups like Hezbollah, prosecutors said Tuesday. Thirty-six Polish, Ukrainian, Iraqi and Belarusian members of the alleged network […]
(AFP) Polish security services said Tuesday they had deported a Tajikistan citizen on suspicion of “terrorist activities” and links to the Islamic State group that claimed a deadly attack in Moscow last month. The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was “a […]
(Charter 97) Police have detained a 38-year-old woman who planned to carry out a terrorist attack and planted an improvised explosive device in the center of Warsaw on Independence Day, celebrated on November 11. The detainee was interested in the Islamic State […]
(Reuters) Islamic militants will be among migrants heading for Europe as a result of the conflict in Israel, Poland’s prime minister said on Thursday, as his governing party burnishes its anti-immigrant credentials in the run-up to a national election. The nationalist Law […]
(Middle East Eye) Muslim civil society groups from Europe warned of the growing level of Islamophobia spreading across the continent at a major security and human rights conference in Poland. On Thursday, seven Muslim groups from Austria, France, Sweden, Spain, and the […]
(Middle East Eye) The director of the UK-based advocacy group Cage has accused the French government of placing him on a European no-entry list after he was refused entry to Poland to attend a high-profile security conference in Warsaw. Border officers at […]
(AP) Germany announced Wednesday it will increase police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic in an effort to prevent more migrants from entering the country. The new measures would begin immediately, said Interior Minister Nancy […]
(Reuters) The European Union should deal with a surge in migrants by sealing its borders and rejecting any idea of relocating them within the bloc, Poland’s ruling party said on Tuesday as it takes a tough stance on migration before an election. […]
(AP) Poland’s government said Monday it wants to ask voters whether they want dismantled a recently-built border wall that blocks unauthorized migration from Belarus. The loaded question is one of four the right-wing ruling party wants to ask in a referendum it […]
(AP) Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party […]
(AFP) Poland’s government on Monday accused Belarus and Russia of orchestrating another migration influx into the European Union via the Polish border in order to destabilise the region. “We’re talking about an operation organised by the Russian and Belarusian secret services that […]
(Reuters) An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday. The young man was arrested in southern Poland in June and had collected information and […]
(AP) Poland’s lawmakers on Friday approved law amendments that open the way for a national referendum on accepting migrants to be held in conjunction with the country’s general election, which is expected this fall. Poland’s conservative government has vetoed the European Union’s […]
(AP) The European Union should put a priority on stopping illegal migration instead of trying to persuade the 27 member nations to share responsibility for people who arrive without authorization, the prime ministers of Italy and Poland said Wednesday. Italy’s right-wing leader, […]
(Reuters) Poland and Hungary refused on Friday to sign up to conclusions of a European Union summit over two paragraphs on migration, a move diplomat[s] said aimed to demonstrate their anger over being outvoted earlier this month on new migration rules. The […]
(Reuters) Poland will demand the reform of the European Union’s border agency Frontex and more funds for dealing with migrants, the prime minister said on Thursday, as he prepared to oppose a migration deal at an EU summit in Brussels. Under the […]
(AP) Belarus is introducing a visa-free travel arrangement with dozens of countries for a month, raising fears that neighboring Poland and Lithuania might see a sudden increase in unauthorized migration. The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a decree allowing citizens […]
(AP) The Polish border service on Friday reported an increase in the number of Middle Eastern migrants trying to illegally cross into the European Union at the border of Belarus and Poland. In the past 24 hours, border agents detained 117 migrants […]
(Middle East Eye) Muslim civil society organisations have raised the alarm about a rising tide of state-sponsored Islamophobia in Europe at a major security and human rights conference in Poland. France, Denmark and Austria were among countries singled out over policies which […]
(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 […]
(AP) A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and top security officials visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall. On Friday, Polish […]
(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 […]
(AFP) Poland has welcomed two million refugees from war-torn Ukraine at lightning speed and with open arms. Yet just north of that border, the EU member continues to push back those crossing from Belarus. Since last summer, thousands of migrants and refugees […]
(AFP) Polish contractors began work on Tuesday on a 353-million-euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring migrant crossings following a crisis in the area last year. The 5.5-metre-high wall will run along 186 kilometres (115 miles) of the border — […]
(AP) Poland’s Border Guard authorities say that almost 600 attempts by migrants at illegally crossing the border from Belarus have been foiled so far this year. The attempts have continued since their peak in the fall, but the number of registered tries […]
(AP) Latvia, Lithuania and Poland continue to use questionable methods to keep out migrants trying to enter from Belarus and are denying access to aid groups trying to help people stuck in border areas, senior U.N. refugee agency and European Union officials […]
(Reuters) Sleeping on mattresses in a Belarusian warehouse, hundreds of Middle Eastern migrants are still clinging to the hope of a future in western Europe as the year draws to a close. The nearly 600 migrants, from countries including Iraq, Turkey, Iran […]
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