(Global News) A suicide bomber from Calgary strikes near Baghdad. A Windsor man masterminds the torture and killing of foreigners at a Dhaka bakery. Two London, Ont., gunmen take hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert. Canadian terrorists have killed […]
(AFP) A German woman who joined the Islamic State jihadist group went on trial Tuesday accused of the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun. The case against Jennifer Wenisch, 27, is believed to […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Forty-three-year-old imam Murat Gül is president of the Islamic Federation of Berlin and teaches Islam at the local Rosa Parks primary school. “Ever since I was a young boy, I had a love for the Koran,” said Gül, who was […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germans with dual nationality who join foreign terrorist militias will lose their citizenship in the future, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. “Someone who goes abroad and actually participates in combat operations for a terrorist militia shows that they have turned […]
(NY Daily News) A Bronx nurse who planned to abandon his wife and young son to join ISIS in Syria was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by a judge disturbed by his calculating, cold-blooded radicalization. Adam Raishani, 32, was arrested […]
(BBC) An Islamic State fighter held in Syria has told the BBC he was one of at least seven students and ex-students from University of Westminster to join IS. Zakariyya Elogbani abandoned a degree in business management which he was taking at […]
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(Fox) In the dying days of the caliphate, thousands of ISIS families fled into the Syrian desert trying to escape the incessant bombardment of U.S. airpower. Among them, Hoda Muthana, the woman born in America who joined ISIS. She is now living […]
(Mercury News) Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice had failed to prove something it insisted for years was true: that a Fremont man tried to travel to Syria in 2015, to join a terrorist organization. U.S. District […]
(New Statesman) I met Tasnime Akunjee for the first time in autumn last year. I was interested in the case of the three girls from Bethnal Green Academy who in February 2015 joined Islamic State (IS) in Syria and, because he was […]
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(Dutch News) The NRC on Friday published more details about the security service report on Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school, which has led to officials calling on the board to resign. The paper say[s] it has seen AIVD documents which claim controversial […]
(JTA) Austria’s Muslim residents are more than twice as likely as non-Muslims to endorse anti-Semitic statements, according to a survey commissioned by the Austrian government. Asked whether they agree with a statement blaming anti-Semitic persecution of Jews on their own behavior, 19 percent […]
(AFP) A Moroccan accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the deadly 2015 terror attacks in Paris was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Friday by a Polish court for belonging to the Islamic State group. Mourad T. pleaded not guilty […]
(AP) Austria’s Constitutional Court has thrown out a complaint by two Turkish imams expelled under a 2015 law that prevents religious communities from getting funding from foreign nations. The court said Thursday the so-called “Islam Law” didn’t constitute a disproportionate restriction of […]
(AFP) Dutch prosecutors are to charge the suspect in a gun attack in a packed Utrecht tram with “terrorist” killings, saying he will appear for the first time before a judge on Friday. “The 37-year-old suspect will appear before a judge on […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Prime Minister Scott Morrison says an eight-year-old report claiming he once urged the Coalition to score political points with Muslim immigration is an “ugly and disgusting lie.” The story, which was published by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2011 […]
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(AFP) The prime suspect in a deadly shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht was known for a “rap sheet from here to Tokyo” but showed few signs of radicalism, according to residents and reports. Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis, 37, […]
(AFP) Dutch police said they were investigating a terrorist motive for the Utrecht tram attack, as they arrested a new suspect on Tuesday over the deadly shooting. Authorities said they had found a suspicious letter in a getaway car used by Turkish-born […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Two brothers accused of planning an IS-inspired terrorist attack in Sydney plotted to put a bomb on a plane at Sydney Airport and separately planned to release lethal gas, a jury has been told. Mahmoud Khayat, 34, and Khaled […]
(AFP) Dutch police on Monday arrested a Turkish-born suspect over a shooting on a tram in Utrecht that left three people dead in what officials said was a possible terror attack. Police had earlier launched a huge manhunt for Gokmen Tanis, 37, […]
(Kathimerini) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has criticized Greece of failing to uphold the rights of its Muslim minority in Western Thrace and of forbidding its members to call themselves “Turks.” He was speaking after the 54th meeting of the European Union-Turkey […]
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Few things are more complex than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that dispute came to northern Fulton County after an apparent misunderstanding over a map that appeared at a middle school multicultural night last week. A display at Autrey Mill Middle […]
(Copenhagen Post) A new law proposal from the government and Dansk Folkeparti would make it illegal for foreign governments and authorities to give money to religious bodies in Denmark. The law would come into play if it is decided that the purpose […]
(Reuters) An Islamic State fighter detained in Syria urged Italy on Saturday to let him come home to start a new life, saying he had abandoned the self-styled jihadist “caliphate” after growing disillusioned with its rulers. Mounsef al-Mkhayar, a 22-year-old of Moroccan […]
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(ABC-Australia) A New Zealander serving with the Islamic State group has been captured in northern Syria and is being held in a Kurdish prison. Nicknamed the Kiwi Jihadi, Mark Taylor told the ABC he fled the Islamic State group in December and […]
(Daily Sabah) The German government wants to make German language skills a requirement for foreign clerics seeking to enter the country, an Interior Ministry spokesman told dpa on Sunday. Clerics looking after the large number of Muslim migrants who have entered Germany […]
(CTV) It took time and patience to negotiate access to the al-Hawl refugee camp in eastern Syria. A few cups of tea, a group photo with a Kurdish intelligence officer, and after a couple days, permission was granted. Al-Hawl is a vast […]
(Canadian Press) A Toronto man who tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria was sentenced to just over four years in prison on Thursday after a judge found he had taken responsibility for his actions and abandoned his radical views. Pamir […]
(FrontPage) Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old woman who fled her Birmingham, Alabama-area home to join ISIS in Syria, in 2014, and who called on others to commit violence against Americans, including against then-President Barack Obama, wants to come home to the United States. […]
(Global News) The RCMP is preparing for the return of at least a dozen Canadians detained in Syria amidst the collapse of the so-called Islamic State, a senior law enforcement official has told Global News. The capture of suspected Canadian ISIS members, […]
(NL Times) There are still jihadists who are making plans to commit an attack in the Netherlands, the National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism and Security NCTV said in its latest threat assessment. The chance of an attack in the Netherlands remains real, and […]
(Global News) A Toronto man who travelled to Turkey in 2014 to join the so-called Islamic State pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting the witness who reported him to police. Appearing in a Toronto courtroom, Pamir Hakimzadah admitted to the 2015 attack on […]
(Brussels Times) The Flemish government will not accredit any new mosques in the region for the next five years, according to home affairs minister Liesbeth Homans. Homans (photo) had commissioned a study from the university of Leuven, which she now says justifies […]
(Dutch News) The Dutch public prosecution department has payroll lists with the names of people who worked for IS, including jihadis who have returned to the Netherlands, the AD said on Friday. The department is using the lists, which cover the period […]
(ITV) The Briton known as Jihadi Jack has exclusively told ITV News he wants to come home after being held for two years in a Kurdish prison — but doubts the UK will move to bring him back. Oxford-born Jack Letts, who […]
(Global News) An Ontario man who travelled to Syria to join an al-Qaida faction is being released from prison less than two years after pleading guilty, even though the Parole Board of Canada is concerned he might continue to engage in terrorism. […]
(AP) A German-Moroccan couple was arrested Thursday in central Germany on charges they were planning an Islamic extremist attack. A series of raids included searches of the homes of 12 other suspects, Frankfurt prosecutors said. Frankfurt prosecutor Nadja Niesen said authorities believe […]
(Hill) President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Wednesday that an Alabama woman will not be allowed to return to the U.S. after traveling to Syria to join ISIS in 2014. Pompeo said that Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. […]
(AP) U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that European countries take back their citizens fighting in Syria received a mixed reaction Monday, as nations voiced concerns about how to bring home-grown Islamic State extremists to trial. The question of such foreign fighters has […]
(Local) A Swedish activist who livestreamed her onboard protest against the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker has been found guilty of violating Sweden’s aviation laws. Gothenburg District Court on Monday fined Elin Ersson 3,000 kronor ($325) for her protest on board […]
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(Anadolu) A Turkish-Belgian politician on Friday decried the difficulties of living as a Muslim in Europe. Being a Muslim in Europe is hard in terms of both religious belief and wearing a headscarf, Mahinur Ozdemir, 36, a Belgian-born Muslim parliamentarian, told a […]
(Anadolu) A court in Austria annulled a government plan to shut down six mosques belonging to the Arab community, a Muslim body said late on Thursday. In a statement, Umit Vural, head of the Islamic Religious Community of Austria (IGGO), said that […]
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(Toronto Star) A woman who attacked Canadian Tire employees with a knife and a golf club while declaring support for terror group Daesh is sentenced to seven years in prison, a judge ruled Thursday. In a short and unusual jury trial, Rehab […]
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