(NY Post) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is “enormously proud” of daughter Isra Hirsi’s arrest during an anti-Israel protest, she said Friday in her first public comments since the 21-year-old was busted in New York City. “I am enormously proud of my daughter,” […]
(Hill) The deadly ISIS-K attack on a Moscow concert hall last week is raising concerns that plots by the terrorist group, once restricted to Afghanistan, could be carried out in the United States and Europe — and sooner than thought. Islamic State […]
(NY Post) ISIS-K terrorists could cross America’s porous borders, and carry out an attack like the Moscow concert hall mass shooting that killed 143 people, a US counter-terrorism official and experts warned. The ultra-violent offshoot of the Islamic State terror group is […]
(CBC) A mysterious writer making propaganda for an Afghan branch of ISIS claimed to be based somewhere in Canada which, experts say, could be cause for concern for authorities. Voice of Khurasan, an online publication used by the Islamic State of Khorasan […]
(BBC) A church which supported the asylum claim of the Clapham alkali attacker limited his rights to attend services after a sexual assault conviction, newly released documents reveal. Abdul Shokoor Ezedi’s body was found in the river Thames in February, ending a […]
(Daily Caller) Federal authorities nabbed an Afghan national on the terror watchlist on Feb. 5 after he crossed the southern border illegally into California, according to an internal federal memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Border Patrol agents arrested […]
(ITV) The government has come under pressure to explain how a refugee suspected of launching a chemical substance attack on a mother and her children was granted asylum after being convicted of a sex offence. Police are hunting Abdul Ezedi, 35, after […]
(NY Post) A radicalized Islamic jihadist pleaded guilty to terrorism charges on Thursday for attacking NYPD officers with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2022, federal officials said. Trevor Bickford, a 20-year-old Maine native, will face a potential 120 […]
(European Conservative) A top Christian Democrat politician wants to amend the constitution if necessary, so that German taxes can be used to pay for mosques. Jens Spahn — a former minister and deputy leader of the opposition center-right CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group — […]
(Breitbart) An ISIS-supporting illegal migrant from Sudan has been granted the right to permanently reside in the United Kingdom after his lawyers successfully argued that deporting him to his homeland would endanger his human rights. British judges have dismissed concerns raised by […]
(National-UAE) Security services across Europe have uncovered an ISIS plot to use explosives to target churches. Counter-terrorism experts say the group remains a “serious threat” and is taking advantage of the conflict in Gaza to motivate its supporters. Over the Christmas period, […]
(Reuters) Germany has agreed with Turkey to phase out a controversial programme that posts Turkish imams to German mosques, the interior ministry in Berlin announced on Thursday, saying that the move would boost the integration of Muslims in Germany. Some 100 imams […]
(AFP) Germany on Monday condemned an appearance by a Taliban official at a mosque in Cologne, with the interior minister demanding explanations from the Turkish organisation running the Islamic site. Abdul Bari Omar, who is an official with the Taliban-run health authority […]
(Afghanistan International) Abdul Bari Omar, the Taliban’s director of the Food and Drug Administration, recently stated on the X social platform that he is still in Europe following his visit to the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovakia, and Germany. Omar revealed he had engaged […]
(VOA) Germany confirmed Saturday that it has launched an investigation into an alleged unauthorized trip to the country by a senior member of Afghanistan’s Islamist Taliban regime. The controversy erupted after Abdul Bari Omar, head of the Taliban-led food and medicine authority, […]
(Afghanistan International) Abdul Bari Omar, director of the Taliban’s National Food and Drugs Administration, addressed Afghans in Cologne, Germany. He urged the audience to judge the Taliban based on their “achievements,” rather than media portrayals. In a video clip released by the […]
(AFP) Italian police said Friday they had arrested a Bangladesh citizen suspected of belonging to a Pakistani Al-Qaeda-linked group who was studying military tactics and publishing incendiary videos online. Police in Genoa said the man, who described himself on Facebook as an […]
(Free Beacon) House Republicans on Tuesday subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for information about Afghan refugees as intelligence officials warn of increased threats of a terrorist attack in the United States. The Biden administration has stonewalled congressional inquiries into security screenings […]
(Daily Wire) A new poll released late last week found that the majority of Muslim Americans believes that Hamas was “justified” in committing terrorist attacks against Israel. The poll from Cygnal surveyed over 2,000 people from October 16-18 to gauge the public’s […]
(Free Beacon) The mass terror strikes in Israel this weekend should serve as a “wake up” call for Americans, according to former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), who told the Washington Free Beacon in a wide-ranging interview that the chaos at […]
(GB News) West Midlands Police has pulled out of exhibiting at a religious conference this weekend after a GB News investigation uncovered a litany of controversial remarks by the speakers. The Birmingham police were set to exhibit at the LPM Conference, hosted […]
(National-UAE) Afghan activists are calling for an investigation into British imams who met Taliban ministers amid fears they could have been influenced by the regime’s strict ideology. Hundreds of people including women’s rights campaigners and former Afghan politicians have signed a petition […]
(AP) Austrian security officials said Tuesday they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman. One suspect was detained. The investigations and interrogations carried out so far show […]
(San Antonio Express-News) As he sits in a military prison, condemned to die for killing 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, you might think the state of his beard wouldn’t be Nidal Hasan’s top concern. But just as […]
(Reuters) Farzana Jamalzada fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, fearful that her work with the U.S. government would put her in danger. She found refuge in the U.S. and moved to New York City where she secured a job […]
(AP) More than 840,000 Afghans who applied for a resettlement program aimed at people who helped the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan are still there waiting, according to a report that lays out the challenges with a program intended to help America’s […]
(LA Times) Each time he escaped danger on the journey that would eventually bring him to California, Shamsuddin Shams made sure to video-chat with his mother. She liked it that way — to not only hear his voice but see his face, […]
(Breitbart) An asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been jailed for twice raping a 12-year-old girl with learning disabilities in a migrant hotel in London. Sakhidad Ahadi, 25, was sentenced at the Croydon Crown Court to twelve years in prison for grooming and […]
(Western Journal) Two years after President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan humiliated his country on the world stage, the episode isn’t looking any better. The terrorist Taliban Islamist cult remains in control in Kabul. The American families who lost loved ones in […]
(GB News) An NHS Muslim chaplain filmed praising the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan has risked becoming a “propaganda tool,” experts have claimed. In an interview with the Taliban’s state-owned TV channel RTA, Suliman Gani, an imam from South London who works at […]
(GB News) A group of British imams has met with Taliban ministers during a visit to Afghanistan supporting a charity that was previously investigated for links to jihadists, GB News can reveal. An NHS Muslim chaplain who supports patients in South London […]
(Daily Caller) Military and veterans organizations spoke out against bills reintroduced in the House and Senate recently they say would open up a “blanket” pathway to permanent residency in the U.S. for all Afghans who escaped their home country after the Taliban […]
(Washington Post) The British man who tried to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami over 20 years ago spoke publicly last month for the first time, testifying under oath in federal court. His arms and legs were shackled as he […]
(GB News) A[n] Islamist hate cleric’s talk has been cancelled after a GB News investigation. Enayet Ullah Abbasi was due to speak at a venue in London this evening. But after the council were told about his comments which included him saying […]
(GB News) An Islamist cleric who said critics of the Prophet Mohammed should have their heads “chopped off” has been allowed into the UK to speak at an event. Sick Enayet Ullah Abbasi previously slammed the late Queen Elizabeth II for endorsing […]
(Brussels Times) State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor announced on Monday that she has asked for the refugee status of a man from Afghanistan to be re-examined due to cases of hate speech. The man — identified by Belga […]
(Daily Caller) Republican Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida said Monday that the Taliban were giving terrorists “visas and passports” after a suspect on the terrorist watch list was detained at the border. “We know that people from over 170 countries are now […]
(National-UAE) Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and activist, was given a Metropolitan Police protection team on Tuesday evening after her appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Ms Alinejad spoke at the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit on Investigative Journalism in central London on […]
(JNS) At a reception in the White House’s East Room celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which concludes Ramadan, on Monday evening, U.S. President Joe Biden complimented two female members of Congress known for antisemitic statements on their looks. “Congresswoman Omar. Where are you, Congresswoman […]
(CBS) The Biden administration is planning to allow tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the U.S. after the Taliban takeover of their homeland to apply to stay and work in the country legally for at least another two years, as efforts […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration has yet to properly vet over 88,000 Afghan refugees who were resettled in the United States after its botched military withdrawal, which lawmakers say raises “serious national security concerns for the state of U.S. homeland security.” The […]
(AFP) A French court has sentenced nine Afghans aged 21 to 39 to jail for illegally smuggling migrants across the Channel to Britain on dinghies in 2021. London and Paris are clamping down on illicit boat crossings into the United Kingdom on the […]
(JNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has compared boycotts of Israel and of Nazi Germany, was slated to deliver opening remarks at a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom event on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims, […]
(NZ Herald) A rapist who bought his young victim alcohol and drugs pinned her down by the neck, telling her he wasn’t finished when she tried to push him away during an assault. Abdullah Baura was sent to jail for raping a […]
(ERR) Individuals involved in terrorist activities including those with links to groups such as Al-Qaeda, Daesh, Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood have become increasingly interested in Estonia’s e-residency program, the Internal Security Service (ISS) reports. The ISS, also known by […]
(AP) A northern Virginia man convicted on terrorism charges as a teenager has been sent back to prison for a year after violating conditions of his release by meeting with convicted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh and others linked to terrorism. Prosecutors […]
(CNN) A Virginia man convicted of providing support to ISIS in 2015 was sentenced Thursday to serve an additional year in prison for breaking his release conditions after meeting multiple times with John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” and sharing ISIS […]
(Local) Norway will not follow in the footsteps of neighbours Denmark and grant asylum to Afghan women based on their gender, Minister of Justice Emilie Enger Mehl has said. Afghanistan is currently the world’s most oppressive country for women, according to the […]
(AP) Nearly 1 million people applied for international protection in the European Union in 2022, according to data published Wednesday, bringing the number of asylum requests to a level not seen since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016. The EU Agency for Asylum […]
(Reuters) A U.S. judge decided on Tuesday that victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are not entitled to seize $3.5 billion of assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Taliban. U.S. District Judge George […]
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