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Government & Politics

UK’s new national security adviser called for ISIS talks at height of terrorism Jonathan Powell helped bring peace to Northern Ireland with Tony Blair and is welcomed by leadership as 'an excellent choice'

November 8, 2024 and   

(National-UAE) Britain’s new national security adviser argued that the West should negotiate with ISIS extremists to bring peace to the Middle East. Jonathan Powell, who was former prime minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, was a leading player in bringing a peace […]

Government & Politics

Rochdale loyalties tested by Galloway’s Labour challenge on Gaza policy Flamboyant MP tells the National his by-election victory was a signal that British Muslims could provide a significant general election upset

June 9, 2024   

(National-UAE) Rochdale, says its current MP George Galloway, will be remembered as the place where Britain’s Muslims saw that there was a new way of finding a political voice. His view, although bound with self-interest, was certainly borne out during the National’s […]

Law Enforcement

West Yorkshire Police officer given community order over pro-Hamas WhatsApp posts Mohammed Adil pleaded guilty to posting two images supporting the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the banned terrorist group, following the 7 October attacks in Israel.

June 4, 2024   

(Sky News) A police officer from West Yorkshire has been given a community order after posting images of Hamas fighters on Whatsapp, days after the 7 October attacks on Israel. Mohammed Adil, from Wibsey in Bradford, escaped a prison sentence for supporting […]

Government & Politics

Lib Dem councillor questions accounts of Hamas terrorist atrocities A Lib Dem spokesperson confirms a complaint about Birmingham city councillor Ayoub Khan's [TikTok] posts is being investigated.

October 26, 2023   

(Jewish News) An elected Liberal Democrat councillor has repeatedly questioned evidence of Hamas terrorist atrocities in Israel on 7 October, saying he “has a problem with the credibility” of an account of the massacre carried out at a kibbutz. Birmingham city councillor […]

Government & Politics

ISIS plotting to assassinate George W. Bush in Dallas Two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter’s WhatsApp account reveal plans to smuggle assassins into the U.S. to murder the former president, according to a search warrant application discovered by Forbes.

May 24, 2022   

(Forbes) An Iraqi man in the U.S. accused of being linked to ISIS operatives was plotting to kill George W. Bush, going so far as to travel to Dallas in November to take video around the former president’s home and recruiting a […]

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.

August 2, 2021   

(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 […]

Government & Politics

US Muslim group decries Trump’s pardon of contractors It ‘is an unconscionable act of moral insanity,' says CAIR's head about Blackwater contractors

December 23, 2020   

(Anadolu) The US’s largest Muslim civil rights organization on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to four former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians. National executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad said the […]