(AP) The Saudi student who fatally shot three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told the Associated Press on […]
(NY Times) A member of the Saudi Air Force armed with a handgun fatally shot three people and injured eight others on Friday morning during a bloody rampage in a classroom building at the prestigious Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., where […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany has deported 90 “Gefährder” and other “relevant persons” since the 2016 attack on a Berlin Christmas market, according to German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, which cited a government response to a parliamentary inquiry on Friday. In Germany a “Gefährder” (lit. “endangerer”) […]
(AP) U.S. law enforcement officials were digging into the background of the suspected Florida naval station shooter Friday, to determine the Saudi Air Force officer’s motive and whether it was connected to terrorism. As questions swirled about the shooting, which left four […]
(AP) An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, killing three people in an attack the Saudi government quickly condemned and that U.S. officials were investigating for possible links to […]
(CBC) A Canadian man detained in Turkey this past summer and accused of having ISIS propaganda on his phone was charged by RCMP Friday with terror-related offences. Ikar Mao, 22, of Guelph, Ont., faces one count of participation in activity of a terrorist […]
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(CBC) Turkish authorities alleged a Canadian man had ISIS propaganda on his phone when he and his wife were arrested near the Syrian border this summer, CBC News has learned. The newlywed couple were held for three months before being released and returning […]
(Breitbart) Denmark has announced that another Islamic State member will have their passport and citizenship revoked in what has become the third case in just over a week. The first case involved a 25-year-old Kurdish man who had joined Islamic State as […]
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(Anadolu) Germany’s integration minister on Tuesday expressed concern over Islamophobia, warning that it poses a “real danger” to social cohesion. Presenting the annual government report on the state of integration in the capital Berlin, Annette Widmann-Mauz said: “Right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, and hostility […]
(Hill) President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron held a tense meeting Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit, with Trump at one point telling the French leader he could send him some “ISIS fighters” if he wanted them. “Would you […]
(Anadolu) Turkey repatriated five foreign terrorist fighters to Germany on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said the German nationals were sent back to their countries of origin as part of Turkey’s ramped-up efforts to repatriate foreign terrorist […]
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(Brussels Times) Two Belgian IS women originally from Antwerp were repatriated from Turkey on Friday and placed under detention in Antwerp and Bruges, the spokesperson of the Directorate of Prisons confirmed on Saturday. The two sisters, Fatima and Rahma Benmezian, were sentenced […]
(Brussels Times) Turkey has sent the first two Belgian IS women, Fatima (24) and Rahma (31) Benmezian, to Belgium by plane on Friday. When the plane lands at Brussels Airport Zaventem on Friday evening, the two sisters will immediately be arrested and […]
(Swiss Info) A decade ago, a majority of Swiss voters backed a people’s initiative banning the building of minarets in the country. What has changed since? The people’s initiative was accepted by 57.5% of Swiss voters, even though most politicians, church leaders […]
(Anadolu) German authorities are currently investigating 116 returnees to Germany from areas previously controlled by the Daesh/ISIS terror group, according to local reports. The return of suspected Daesh supporters to Germany has been pre-occupying German security officials for weeks as Turkey recently […]
(Anadolu) As part of Turkey’s policy of repatriating foreign Daesh/ISIS members to their home countries, next month 11 French national members of the terror group will be sent back to France, said Turkish officials on Thursday. “This week we will carry out […]
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(Local) The Danish government has withdrawn the citizenship of a man who is wanted for suspected terrorism, applying a hotly-debated new law. The man’s lawyer, Mette Grith Stage, confirmed to newspaper Berlingske that his citizenship had been revoked. A 25-year-old Danish-Turkish citizen […]
(Anadolu) Turkish anti-terror police teams arrested a French woman who was allegedly trying to join [the] Daesh/ISIS terror group in southern Adana province, according to security sources on Tuesday. Anissa L., 21, who reportedly flew from France to Istanbul and then arrived […]
(Deutsche Welle) A lawyer, activist, author and now imam, Seyran Ates has long lent a critical voice to debates about migration, women’s rights and religious freedom in Germany and beyond. Ates co-founded the “liberal” Ibn Ruschd-Goethe Mosque on the third floor of St. John’s Church near […]
(Al-Arabiya) US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was recruited by a foreign government, passed sensitive information that was relayed to Iran, and received funding by a foreign government, according to a sworn deposition by a Canadian businessman in a Florida court. In explosive testimony […]
(Daily Sabah) Islam belongs to Germany just like Christianity and Judaism, Germany’s former President Christian Wulff said during a meeting at the Turkish-German Culture Association in the German city of Brühl on Saturday. Considering escalating racism and xenophobia in the world he […]
(Daily Sabah) Muslim communities in Germany criticized the government’s new project to train imams, accusing it of being a political initiative and a concerning development for the community, while noting that the new project violates the German constitution. Germany is launching an […]
(Brussels Times) Two Belgian jihadist widows, Tatiana Wielandt (27) and Bouchra Abouallal (26), have been arrested by Turkish police, reports VRT NWS. They fled Syria to go to Turkey with their six children on Wednesday. De Standaard claimed they handed themselves in […]
(AFP) Syria’s Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. After years of leading the battle against the Islamic State group in […]
(ABC-Australia) An interim control order has been imposed on an Adelaide woman acquitted of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist group. A Federal Court judge imposed 20 of the 21 conditions sought by the federal government to control aspects of […]
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(Brussels Times) Since the Turkish invasion of Syria, nine Belgian women have managed to escape from the Kurdish camps where they were imprisoned, and some are trying to get back to Belgium. Nine Belgian women affiliated with the terrorist group Islamic State […]
(AP) Greece announced plans Wednesday to overhaul its migration management system, replacing overcrowded refugee camps on the islands with smaller detention facilities and moving some 20,000 asylum seekers to the mainland over the next few weeks. Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis announced […]
(Dutch News) Justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus has told reporters it is extremely disappointing that Turkey has sent two ISIS women back to the Netherlands. The two women were picked up at Schiphol airport on Tuesday after being deported by Ankara. Grapperhaus said […]
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday jailed Anne Diana Clain, whose two brothers were notorious propagandists for Islamic State, for nine years for terrorist association. Paris’s criminal courts handed down the sentence to Clain, 44, for having attempted between 2015 and 2016 […]
(Dutch News) Turkey has sent two Dutch women who joined IS forces in Syria five and six years ago back to the Netherlands, Dutch media said on Wednesday. One of the women, who has two children aged three and four, has been […]
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(Global News) An Ontario man has been arrested on a terrorism peace bond after returning from Turkey, and has been released on a long list of conditions including that he not espouse extremism, Global News has learned. Ikar Mao, 22, was arrested […]
(Global News) A month before a Canadian convicted of trying to join ISIS was released from an Ontario prison in June, he was denied parole on the grounds he posed too great a risk, newly released records show. On May 24, the […]
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(Reuters) A federal judge on Saturday ordered that a German citizen arrested on her return to the country on suspicion of being a member of Islamic State should remain in custody, prosecutors said. Authorities said the suspect, identified only as Nasim A., […]
(Deutsche Welle) The father of a family of seven, expelled by Turkey on Thursday, was taken into custody on arrival in Germany, said Martin Pallgen, a spokesman for the Berlin state Interior Ministry. A warrant for his arrest is understood not to be […]
(Anadolu) A Daesh/ISIS terrorist who was stranded at the Turkey-Greece border has been extradited to the U.S., the Turkish interior minister said Friday. “Today an American who was stuck between our country and Greece was extradited to the U.S. from Istanbul a […]
(Deutsche Welle) The government has long struggled with foreign involvement when it comes to the education of imams who lead Muslim communities across Germany. Now, a new educational association, with start-up funding from Germany’s interior ministry, is set to launch on November 21. Even though some […]
(Brussels Times) Vlaams Belang on Thursday launched a campaign in Antwerp and on Facebook against the return of terrorist fighters to Belgium. The aim of the campaign is to put pressure on the government and press for measures such as striking former […]
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