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ARISH, Egypt – One Monday in early April, Shaher Saeed was driving south of the city of Arish in Egypt’s North Sinai when he came upon a group of Islamic State militants who had stopped a truck carrying cigarettes.

A female passenger on Cairo’s metro reportedly tried to cut off a local young woman’s hair off, saying this was because she was not wearing any head covering.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has denounced radical Islam as “a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilisation,” after a deadly Kalashnikov attack on police officers in Paris. “Hate preachers must be

Emmanuel Macron, the current favourite to win the French presidential elections, has described terrorism as an “imponderable problem” which will be “part of our daily lives for the years to come”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally confessed that there is “no doubt” some of the migrants she invited into Europe are terrorists, following another deadly terror attack by a bogus asylum seeker in Stockholm, Sweden.

Marine Le Pen has pledged to suspend France’s membership of the European Union’s borderless Schengen area immediately if she is elected to the presidency, and deport all foreign nationals on the republic’s Islamist watch list.

Huge crowds have turned out to pay their respects to Police Constable Keith Palmer as he is laid to rest in Southwark Cathedral.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a prominent women’s rights campaigner who left Islam and lives under a fatwa, remains defiant after been forced to cancel an Australian tour amid “security concerns”.

Radical Islam is “taking hold” in Britain prisons, where a terror attack is more likely than at anytime since the IRA years, a former governor who has conducted a review into Islamic extremism has warned.

The Netherlands is on high alert after a number of Kurds were attacked and stabbed outside the Turkish consulate in Brussels while trying to cast their votes in a referendum on increasing the powers of President Erdoğan. Supporters of the Islamist

LENS, France (AP) — France’s attempts to counter the radicalization of its young people are in turmoil, with a group home intended to turn them away from Islamic extremism empty, the head of a highly publicized nonprofit convicted of misuse of public funds, and plans to segregate prison inmates suspected of harboring jihadi ideas abandoned.

Nigel Farage has said the UK should adopt Donald Trump-style “extreme vetting” after the Westminster attack, but not follow Geert Wilders’ plan “for an entire religion to be outlawed” as that will “alienate” moderate Muslims.

Security sources have told Sky News that more than four hundred British jihadists who travelled to the Middle East to fight for terror organisations like Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front have returned home, and most have evaded the authorities.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged Russia and the West to join forces against terrorism during a visit to Moscow, after ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack which killed six men in Chechnya. According to German state broadcaster

A former Labour Party foreign minister has implied the government of Tony Blair was wrong to ignore the religious roots of Islamist terror, urging authorities to ‘take on’ the ideology to defeat terror.

Top Eurocrat Julian King urged people “to keep in mind the growing menace of Right-wing violent extremism” just one day after a radical Islamic terrorist murdered a number of people in Westminster, London.

Dr. Alan Mendoza, founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said the 22 March terrorist attack in Westminster follows “the modus operandi of ISIS-related attacks” in the weaponisation of vehicles.

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to Police Constable Keith Palmer, the 48-year-old husband and father who died after being stabbed multiple times outside the Palace of Westminster on 22 March.

The Prime Minister has said the “Islamist” attack of Parliament was not “Islamic” and Islam is a “great faith”.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has drawn a clear link between the European Union’s permissive migration policy and terror events such as the Westminster attacks.

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson will attend a terror summit chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Wednesday.

The neighbourhood of Sparkbrook in Birmingham has become a hotbed of jihad in the UK, with local councillors turning a blind eye to extremism.

Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has stepped up his war of words against Europe, accusing Germany of “employing Nazi measures” against Turks in Germany.

A mob of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congregated Sunday to squeeze and mutilate oranges as a protest against the Netherlands, which has prevented Turkish government officials from attending pro-Erdogan rallies on Dutch soil.

Health professionals in England recorded over 5,500 cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in 2016 – but there were no prosecutions.

Aided by a politically correct culture of “tolerance”, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is secretly building a “parallel” society in Sweden by infiltrating organisations and political parties, a government report has concluded.

Islamic State has made suicide attacks “a pillar of its insurgency”, deploying them on a scale which only the infamous kamikaze pilots, who flew suicide missions for the Japanese Empire during the Second World War, can rival.

Danish officials have admitted that a number of individuals who travelled to fight in the Middle East are welfare claimants. The New York Times reports the Danish authorities as having admitted that around 145 Danes have travelled to Syria or

Five youths aged fifteen to nineteen have been arrested in the British capital following a series of city-wide anti-terror raids. Officers from the Metropolitan Police arrested two males aged 16 and 17 in south London and another two males aged

Counter-terror police are investigating a new alleged Islamist “Trojan Horse” plot to control a state school, with claims a head teacher was attacked and intimidated by Muslim parents, including a threat to blow up her car.

Hamas forces on Sunday demolished a half-built mosque that belonged to Islamic Jihad activists, claiming it was constructed on Hamas-owned land without the required permits.

An anonymous newborn baby was found abandoned on Saturday outside a Gaza mosque, the fourth in the last month alone, according to local news outlets.

During a discussion on Islamic extremism on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” author Sam Harris argued that while a Muslim ban is a bad idea, and the US should take in Syrian refugees who don’t pose a security threat,

During a discussion on Islamic extremism with author Sam Harris on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher remarked that while banning Muslims isn’t the solution, “We’re trying to find ways to disempower Donald Trump, and the left

MKs in the coalition have been striving over the past few days to phrase the “Muezzin Bill” in a way that would overcome the ultra-Orthodox parties’ block on the legislation.

Belgian anti-terror units are raiding Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, the densely populated suburb of Brussels which has been described as Europe’s “jihadi capital”. According to MailOnline the area was on “lockdown” on Saturday, with raids concentrated on the Rue Delaunoy. This is the same