(AFP) Sweden on Thursday charged a 23-year-old Swedish-Syrian man with several “terrorist crimes,” including attempts to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State (IS) group, prosecutors said. He is also accused of both financing and attempting to finance IS through cryptocurrencies, […]
(AFP) An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said. The man, who holds dual Swedish and Syrian citizenship, had sworn loyalty to the […]
(AFP) A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world’s two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say. With strong central leadership, […]
(AFP) A Danish court put two Swedish [men] on trial on terrorism charges for having thrown two hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen last year. The two men, aged 18 and 21, have also been charged with aggravated assault and […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Wednesday that police had arrested another alleged member of a Hamas cell plotting attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions. The man, identified as Lebanon-born Borhan El-K., was arrested late Tuesday while entering Germany from the Czech Republic, the […]
(AFP) A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., […]
(AFP) French magistrates were Monday investigating the ex-girlfriend of a man jailed for the deadly November 13, 2015, Paris attacks over an alleged jihadist plot, prosecutors said. But Salah Abdeslam himself was not involved in any plot, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office […]
(AFP) France’s anti-terror unit said Saturday three people were in custody as part of an investigation into a suspected terror threat linked to Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving perpetrator of the devastating November 13, 2015, Paris attacks. On Thursday, France will mark […]
(AFP) A Belgian jihadist accused of acts of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria — and presumed killed in conflict — went on trial in absentia Thursday in Brussels. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Islamic State […]
(AFP) Berlin is offering cash to Afghan refugees in Pakistan if they agree to give up their places on a programme for resettlement in Germany, activists said Tuesday. The Afghans were accepted under a refugee scheme set up by the previous German […]
(AFP) The Swedish Prosecution Authority said Tuesday it intended to charge an 18-year-old man for planning a terrorist act in Stockholm on behalf of the Islamic State group. According to prosecutors, the planning took place between August 2024 and February 2025. “We […]
(AFP) Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday Syrian refugees in Germany must go home now that their country’s war is over or face deportation. In his latest hardline comments on migration, Merz said there was “no longer any reason” for Syrians who fled […]
(AFP) German authorities said Sunday they had arrested a 22-year-old Syrian man in Berlin suspected of preparing a “jihadist” attack, without giving details of the alleged plot. The suspect, arrested on Saturday in the capital’s southern Neukoelln district, appeared before an investigating […]
(AFP) A 20-year-old man from Afghanistan suspected of having links to an offshoot of the Islamic State group has been arrested in France, anti-terrorism prosecutors said on Saturday. The man was charged with participating in a criminal terrorist organisation and financing a […]
(AFP) German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul discussed the possible return of Syrian refugees with President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a visit to Damascus on Thursday. Germany has a large Syrian community, with hundreds of thousands having settled there after fleeing the civil war. […]
(AFP) Denmark’s Prosecution Service said Wednesday it had charged two Swedish citizens with terrorism for targeting the Israeli embassy with two hand grenades in Copenhagen last year. Two explosions were reported near the embassy in the middle of the night on October […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a schoolgirl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum sentence. Dahbia Benkired was handed an “irreducible life sentence” […]
(AFP) A suspected Islamic State group supporter has been arrested in Germany for allegedly trying to cause fatal crashes on a motorway by shooting at cars with an air rifle, prosecutors said Friday. The 21-year-old suspect, a Turkish national who has not […]
(AFP) An Afghan man deemed psychologically ill faced a German court on Thursday over a deadly knife attack on a group of toddlers that his defence lawyer labelled the “deed of a madman.” The stabbings nine months ago in a park in […]
(AFP) Swedish prosecutors on Thursday sought the arrest [of] a young Syrian man for killing Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Koran in 2023 and sparked outrage in the Muslim world. Momika, an Iraqi Christian, was shot on January 29 […]
(AFP) Belgian authorities Thursday arrested three young adults suspected of a jihadist-inspired plot to attack Prime Minister Bart De Wever and other politicians using drone-mounted explosives. The arrests were made in the northern city of Antwerp as part of an investigation into […]
(AFP) A Spanish court on Monday opened a terrorism trial against a Moroccan man suspected of killing a church official in machete attacks on two churches in 2023 that horrified the country. Prosecutors are seeking 50 years in jail for Yassine Kanjaa, […]
(AFP) An Austrian court on Wednesday convicted a woman who was repatriated from a Syrian detention camp for having been part of the Islamic State group, handing her a two-year suspended jail sentence. Since IS was ousted from its self-declared “caliphate” in […]
(AFP) A French court on Friday handed jail sentences of up to 13 years to three women for joining the Islamic State group in Syria, including the niece of notorious jihadist propagandist brothers. Jennyfer Clain, 34, whose uncles Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain […]
(AFP) Adrien Guihal, who claimed the 2016 Nice attack for the Islamic State group, will be tried in Iraq alongside 46 other French nationals recently transferred from Syria, a source close to the investigation told AFP. “Adrien Guihal, known as Abu Osama […]
(AFP) More than 80 town halls in France hoisted the Palestinian flag Monday ahead of the recognition of a Palestinian state by President Emmanuel Macron in defiance of a government warning not to do so. Macron is to recognise a Palestinian state […]
(AFP) France’s interior ministry has ordered prefects to oppose the display of Palestinian flags on town halls and other public buildings next week when Paris is set to formally recognise the Palestinian state. “The principle of neutrality in public service prohibits such […]
(AFP) An Afghan man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for a jihadist stabbing spree in Germany last year that killed a police officer and left five people wounded. The 26-year-old, only partially named as Sulaiman A. and found to […]
(AFP) France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian camps housing alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said, in the first such operation in two years. Repatriation is a deeply sensitive issue in France, which has been a target of Islamists […]
(AFP) A teenager suspected of stabbing a teacher at a college in western Germany attacked another man on the same day and acted out of an “Islamist jihadist ideology,” prosecutors said Friday. The 17-year-old Kosovar suspect, identified by prosecutors as Erjon S., […]
(AFP) Three people have been arrested after an attack on two Jewish tourists in Venice earlier this week, local police said Thursday as Italian politicians strongly condemned the incident. “Two foreign Jewish tourists were surrounded and beaten by a group of 10 […]
(AFP) A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for killing three people and wounding eight in an Islamist-motivated stabbing spree at a summer festival in Germany last year. Issa Al Hasan, 27, was a member of the Islamic State […]
(AFP) French authorities have detained a 17-year-old on suspicion of plotting attacks against embassies or official buildings, sources close to the investigation told AFP on Saturday. The teen was formally put under investigation and locked up on Friday, they said, confirming information […]
(AFP) Denmark’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Dane of Syrian origin who was jailed for having spent time with the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria was in fact an informant for Danish intelligence services. The case has captivated the Nordic […]
(AFP) Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin’s Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade. Many came […]
(AFP) French authorities have arrested twin brothers over the cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday. An olive tree, planted in 2011 in Halimi’s […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged an Afghan man over a Munich car-ramming attack that killed a two-year-old girl and her mother and wounded dozens more. The man, identified only as Farhad N., was charged with two counts of murder, […]
(AFP) A Berlin court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian teenager of contributing to an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Three dates in the US pop megastar’s record-breaking “Eras” tour were cancelled last summer after authorities warned […]
(AFP) Swedish jihadist Osama Krayem on Thursday appealed a life sentence handed down in July over the 2015 murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive by the Islamic State group in Syria. The Stockholm district court was the first to try a […]
(AFP) Five people have been arrested in Germany, the Netherlands and Bosnia in a coordinated operation against a gang accused of smuggling Syrian migrants into Europe, German authorities said on Thursday. The suspects are Syrian nationals aged between 26 and 37, police […]
(AFP) France said Friday it would suspend a programme receiving Palestinians from conflict-torn Gaza until an investigation into how a student accused of sharing antisemitic posts was allowed into the country was concluded. The move comes after officials said the female student […]
(AFP) A Stockholm court on Thursday handed down a life term to Swedish jihadist Osama Krayem over the 2015 murder of a Jordanian pilot burned alive by the Islamic State group in Syria. The Swedish court was the first to try a […]
(AFP) One 14-year-old was allegedly planning to blow up an Israeli embassy, while a 16-year-old was convicted of having plotted to attack far-right bars incensed by “injustice.” French prosecutors are alarmed at an increasing number of young teenage boys seemingly plotting “terror” […]
(AFP) The German government said Monday that two new envoys had been sent by Afghanistan’s Taliban administration to help coordinate deportations, days after 81 convicted Afghans were sent back to their homeland. The flight on Friday was the second from Germany since […]
(AFP) A French appeals court Thursday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. Abdallah, 74, is one of the longest-serving prisoners in France, where most convicts on […]
(AFP) Germany is to start deporting Syrians with criminal records, the interior ministry said Saturday, days after Austria became the first EU country to do so in recent years. The ministry had instructed the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to […]
(AFP) Within hours of dawn breaking on a scorching day, five boats carrying dozens of migrants departed from the beaches of northern France bound for the English coast. Some 20 migrants set off from Equihen beach in the northern Pas-de-Calais region around […]
(AFP) A French court on Monday sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds to seven to eight years in jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers from France to England in 2022. France and Britain have vowed […]
(AFP) German prosecutors said Friday they had filed charges against a Syrian youth and alleged Islamic State group supporter linked to a 2024 attack plot on a Vienna concert by US pop megastar Taylor Swift. The suspect, only partially named as Mohammad A., […]
(AFP) Denmark’s strict migration policies have slowly spread across Europe and the country will now push for harsher EU-wide regulations during its upcoming EU presidency, including on asylum handling and legal appeals. Migration policy “is linked to security, that is to say […]
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