(BBC) Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court said in a unanimous ruling that […]
(WCJB) A federal grand jury has formally indicted a former University of Florida student accused of attempting to assist the terrorist organization ISIS. Mohamed Suliman was indicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization. Previously, a judge […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s president on Monday criticized the EU’s double standard of supporting Greece on the issue of migrants but not sharing responsibility for 4 million refugees hosted by Turkey. “While the EU gives Greece €3 billion [$3.65 billion] for 100,000 refugees, it […]
(RTL) A year after his interview with RTL, a return to Luxembourg still looks highly unlikely for Steve Duarte. Duarte is still being held in a Kurdish prison in Al-Hasakah, a city located in northeastern Syria. His wife Fatoumata Diallo and their two children, a […]
(Radio NZ) It is believed a New Zealand woman and her two children who were detained at the Turkish border while trying to enter from Syria will be deported. The Turkish Ministry of National Defence alleges the woman — named as Suhayra […]
(AFP) Cyprus hit out at Turkey on Friday for acts it said were behind the creation of a new migration route that had “disproportionally burdened” it with the EU’s highest percentage of asylum-seekers. The Republic of Cyprus, a member of the European […]
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(NZ Herald) The New Zealand woman detained in Turkey as a “terrorist” spoke of how she had a last-minute change of mind about going to Syria but was bundled into a van and driven across the border. It comes as Prime Minister […]
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
(AFP) France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of a law to battle “Islamist separatism” that is billed by the government as a riposte to religious groups attempting to undermine the secular state. The draft legislation, which has been […]
(AFP) After months of controversy and 135 hours of parliamentary debate, MPs in France are set to approve a draft law to crack down on what has been termed “Islamist separatism” on Tuesday. AFP examines what is, and what isn’t, in the […]
(NZ Herald) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand woman identified as an international terrorist by Turkish authorities should have been deported to Australia. The woman, named by ABC as Suhayra Aden, has been known to New Zealand and Australian authorities […]
(AFP) Germany has charged five Tajik men with membership of an Islamic State terror cell that recruited members and planned attacks on German soil, prosecutors said Monday. A sixth member of the same cell, Ravsan B., was sentenced to seven years in […]
(NL Times) Dutch counterterrorism authority NCTV confirmed it is investigating how the politics and rhetoric of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could impact the Netherlands, domestic security concerns, and the Dutch-Turkish community. On Monday, newspaper HP/De Tijd reported that a confidential NCTV […]
(NZ Herald) A New Zealand woman named as an international terrorist by Turkish authorities is facing deportation, along with her two children, after being caught trying to leave Syria. The Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence says the 26-year-old woman is […]
(AFP) There was an “unprecedented escalation” of human rights violations against migrants in the Aegean Sea last year, a campaign group said Friday, accusing Greece and the EU’s border patrol agency Frontex of being behind a soaring number of illegal returns to […]
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(AP) Emmanuel Conteh negotiates the muddy, rutted pathways in shorts and torn plastic flip-flops and says he can’t sleep in his heavy canvas tent at night because of the cold. He laments the “hellish” conditions in ethnically divided Cyprus’ cramped Pournara migrant […]
(BBC) A man from north London who moved to Syria has appeared in court accused of sharing Islamic State group videos. Stefan Aristidou, 27 and originally from Enfield, is accused of texting videos of beheading and executions. He was arrested at Heathrow […]
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(WCJB) A former Gainesville resident is back in the United States and is facing terrorism charges. He was arrested overseas on Friday and arrived in north-central Florida early Sunday morning. Mohamed Fathy Suliman is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to […]
(AP) A Washington-based Syrian rights group filed a case with the International Criminal Court on Thursday, calling for an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity by Greece for its mistreatment of refugees. The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said witness testimony and […]
(Pink News) Belgian immigration authorities will deport a Turkish imam for saying on social media that being gay is an “illness” that causes “decay.” The imam led worship at the Green Mosque in Houthalen-Helchteren, Linburg, according to BBC Türkçe. When asked by the […]
(Kathimerini) Greece will extradite to the Netherlands a 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who is wanted for suspected terrorism offences, it was announced Wednesday. The man, who arrived on the island of Samos from Turkey on 4 October 2018, was arrested at a […]
(AFP) The head of France’s main Muslim organisation on Thursday slammed a “unilateral” move by three Islamic groups not to sign up to an anti-extremism charter championed by President Emmanuel Macron. Macron wants French Muslim groups to sign up to the charter […]
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(AFP) Three Muslim groups refused on Wednesday to back an anti-extremism charter pushed by French officials following a spate of jihadist-inspired attacks, dealing a blow to a flagship initiative of President Emmanuel Macron’s government. The charter rejects “instrumentalising” Islam for political ends […]
(Reuters) A 24-year-old Italian suspected of fighting in the Middle East since 2014 with al Qaeda-affiliated groups was arrested in Turkey and jailed in Italy, police said on Wednesday. The unnamed man, who had lived with his wife and their four children […]
(Kathimerini) Turkey condemned on Monday the comments made by Greece’s top cleric about Islam, describing them as “presumptuous” and noting that they undermine efforts to restart the exploratory bilateral talks on maritime sovereignty which are scheduled to start later in January. “We […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron praised French Muslim leaders on Monday after they agreed on a “charter of principles” aimed at combatting sectarianism and radicalised teachings blamed for a surge in jihadist attacks in France in recent years. The charter offers “a clarification […]
(AFP) France’s Muslim federations agreed Sunday on a “charter of principles” requested by President Emmanuel Macron in his bid to eradicate sectarianism and extremism. Macron urged the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) to devise the charter in November, after the […]
(Reuters) Greek authorities have arrested a 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker wanted in the Netherlands for suspected terrorism offences, a police official said on Friday. The man arrived on the island of Samos from Turkey on Oct. 4, 2018, and was later transferred […]
(Kathimerini) Greece has submitted a request to the European Commission and the EU’s border agency Frontex, for the immediate return of 1,450 migrants whose asylum requests have been rejected, the country’s Migration Ministry announced on Thursday. From the 1,450 individuals that entered […]
(MPR) A St. Louis Park, Minn., man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 24, is due to be sentenced May 26 on a single count of providing material support to a designated […]
(AFP) An Italian man of Turkish origin who claimed to have been tasked with killing public figures in Austria has been expelled from the country, his lawyer said Tuesday. Feyyaz Ozturk, 53, turned himself in to the Austrian intelligence services last year. […]
(AP) More than two dozen migrants were injured during a large brawl between nationals from Syria and several African countries at an overcrowded migrant reception camp outside of Cyprus’ capital, a government official said Tuesday. Interior Ministry spokesman Loizos Michael told the […]
(Politico) The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog, OLAF, has opened an investigation into Frontex, the bloc’s border agency, over allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks, according to four EU officials. OLAF investigators have been interviewing members of the Warsaw-based agency “since the start […]
(Breitbart) The Vienna government will be holding a security meeting next week following a riot in a migrant-populated district on New Year’s Eve that saw a Christmas tree set on fire by Muslims. The rioting took place at Reumannplatz in the heavily […]
(Dutch News) Dutch jihadi bride Angela B is back in the Netherlands and has been arrested, the public prosecution department has confirmed. The 25-year-old from Soest was picked up on her arrival at Schiphol airport along with her three-year-old son and has […]
(AP) The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization dropped to its lowest level in seven years in 2020, the EU border and coast guard agency Frontex said Friday. Frontex said it detected around 124,000 “illegal border […]
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(Stars and Stripes) Polish authorities have charged two Iraqi citizens with financing the Islamic State, following a yearslong investigation into money transfers to a German man who went to Syria to join the terror group. The two Iraqi men, who were charged […]
(Breitbart) Muslim groups were given two weeks to sign on to a “Republican values charter” by French President Macron after a series of terror attacks, but six weeks later the groups have yet to agree on and finalise a signed document. The […]
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(Ahval) One of Turkey’s largest diaspora groups in the United States has been suspended from Twitter for its targeting of basketball player Enes Kanter. The Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC)’s Twitter account was suspended yesterday for allegedly coordinating a campaign of […]
(Fox) The Council on American-Islamic Relations is urging President-elect Joe Biden to soften up on extremism in a new document on issues it hopes the new administration will address during its first 100 days. It calls on Biden to “oppose and defund” […]
(AP) A court in Denmark on Friday ordered a Danish national facing terror charges on suspicion of having fought alongside the Islamic State group in Syria held in pre-trial custody until Jan. 6. The 32-year-old man was arrested Thursday when he arrived […]
(AFP) US Muslim groups pleaded Thursday for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to speak out on China’s mass incarceration of Uighurs, accusing the global body of abetting what some described as genocide. The OIC consists of 57 Muslim-majority nations and frequently takes […]
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