Islamic terrorism - Page 24

BRUSSELS (AP) – The only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 refused to rise for a Belgian court on Monday, or answer questions about his actions, during his first appearance in public since his arrest nearly two years ago.

The father of 11-year-old Ebba Akerlund, who was horribly killed during the Stockholm terror attack last year, has announced he will be looking to sue the Swedish government or the city of Stockholm for not doing enough to prevent the attack.

The government’s terror watchdog Max Hill QC has said it is “fundamentally wrong to attach the word ‘terrorism’ to any of the world religions”.

Swedish police have released new information showing Stockholm terrorist Rakhmat Akilov used a private Islamic State chatroom on an encrypted messaging service to seek advice before his attack after similar chats were dismissed as “fake news” by Swedish media last year.

A member of the Hamas terror group was killed while working on a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the organization said Wednesday.

A group of German women have launched a campaign called #120db to lend a voice to women who have been physically or sexually attacked as a result of mass migration policies.

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. President Donald Trump failed to broach any subject using the terms “radical Islamic terrorism,” “jihadist,” or any of their variations during his first State of the Union address (SOTU), refusing to use phrases some of his advisers have tried to discourage the commander-in-chief from using in the past.

TEL AVIV — In an attempt to sway the opinions of young Islamist extremist Gazans, Hamas published a video the terrorist organization says shows that the Islamic State is cooperating with Israel to keep the Gaza Strip under siege.

On Sunday, Pope Francis denounced the “terrible terrorist massacre” carried out by Islamic militants of the Taliban in the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday. After his usual midday prayer of the Angelus in the Vatican Sunday, the Pope turned to

An ambulance laden with explosives blew up near a security checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, killing at least 95 and injuring at least 150 more, officials said.

A senior Al-Qaeda leader has called on Muslims “everywhere” to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — As gunmen went on a nighttime rampage through Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday, Aziz Tayeb posted a desperate plea on Facebook — “Pray for me. I may die.”

KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital killed at least six people, including a foreigner, and pinned security forces down for more than 13 hours before the last attacker was killed on Sunday, with the casualty toll expected to rise.

An IDF soldier was lightly wounded in an attempted car-ramming attack in the Jordan Valley on Friday, the army said.

The Israeli army on Thursday revealed details of a massive underground barrier being built along the border with the Gaza Strip in a bid to neutralise the threat of Palestinian attack tunnels.

The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that the Hamas terror group’s deputy political bureau chief, Saleh al-Arouri, told the Lebanese Al-Quds television network that Iran is the only country providing military support to Hamas to fight the “Israeli entity.”

The Swedish government has prepared to hand out booklets advising citizens what to do in cases of war or terror attacks as the chief of the Swedish security service Säpo warns that the terror threat level remains heightened.

Israeli forces hunting the killers of a rabbi raided a West Bank home before dawn Thursday, killing a wanted Palestinian in a firefight that also wounded two Israeli officers, one seriously, officials said.

NEW DELHI — Moshe Holtzberg, a young boy whose parents were killed at a Jewish center in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack, returned to that city for the first time Tuesday to visit the site of the attack with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israeli television that the Jewish state has developed cutting-edge counter-tunnel technology that will enable it to destroy all Hamas terror tunnels by the end of 2018.

TEL AVIV – On Tuesday, Palestinians attempted to bomb Joseph’s Tomb, considered Judaism’s third holiest site, during a visit there earlier today by about 1,000 Jewish pilgrims.

Five men were arrested in connection with a firebomb attack on a historic synagogue in Tunisia.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday said the Hamas terror group had conducted rocket-launching experiments overnight, with the group preferring continued investment in war than in the well-being of the Gaza Strip’s population.

Destroying ISIS’s caliphate may produce a “Remember the Alamo” rallying cry for Jihadis, said retired Navy SEAL Erik Prince.

A Hamas official whose brother is a leader in the organization was injured in a car bombing in Sidon, southern Lebanon, according to a spokesperson for the terror group.

TEL AVIV — Sixteen jihadists from the Gaza Strip have been killed in recent days in Syria where they fought among the ranks of the Islamic State, senior jihadist Abu Abdel Rahman al-Maqdesi told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Ahmad A. admitted to murdering a 50-year-old man and injuring six others at a supermarket in Hamburg last year, and has told the court he believed he was carrying out jihad by trying to kill as many Christians as he could.

A powerful UK parliamentary committee is ready to launch an inquiry into the misuse of foreign aid funds that end up supporting Palestinian terrorists and their families.

Saleh al-Arouri, who was appointed in October as the deputy Hamas leader, was replaced in his role as Hamas’s “military commander in the West Bank” by Maher Obeid, sources in the Palestinian security forces revealed to Ynet on Wednesday.

The European Court of Justice has ruled against the Swedish government’s decision to deport a terrorist asylum seeker claiming that he must remain in Sweden because he could face potential torture in his native Morocco.

Former Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman, who is being treated for cancer, was released from house arrest Wednesday, the official Telam news agency reported.

TEL AVIV – Israel thwarted mass 9/11-style attacks involving hijacked planes on European cities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV — Hamas security forces recently set out on a large-scale operation of arrests against Islamic State-aligned operatives, especially those belonging to the Salafist sect, in wake of a video clip released by Wilyat Sinai, the Egyptian branch of the Islamic State.

TEL AVIV – The threats posed by Iranian proxy terror group, Hezbollah, on Israel’s northern border are “extremely significant,” according to an Israeli news report aired Sunday.

TEL AVIV — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s claim that he earns a modest monthly salary of about $1,300 has drawn more than its share of skepticism among Arab commentators on social media.

Berlin Police president Klaus Kandt has warned that the threat of Islamic State terrorism remains high in major German cities despite the group’s losses in the Middle East, saying that the government needs structural reform to meet new challenges.