Radical Islamic terrorism - Page 5

A female Christian preacher who was wearing a Charlie Hebdo shirt was stabbed in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.

A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.

British spy chiefs fear Taliban triumph in Afghanistan will create a “victory narrative” for radical Islam and inspire terrorist attacks in the West.

Text messages of the two Islamist men who murdered Father Jaques Hamel and a “sponsor” in Syria reveal how the terrorists chose to target the elderly French priest.

French police in the city of Nîmes have arrested a 33-year-old woman on suspicion of being in direct contact with Islamist teen Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Anzorov just days before he beheaded teacher Samuel Paty.

Palestinian activists have “stormed and occupied” a defence factory in Manchester, to protest against “Israel’s kill chain in the UK”.

The main surviving defendant in the 2017 Champs-Élysées terror attack has been convicted for his role in the killing of a Paris police officer and sentenced to 10 years in prison — far below the 18 years requested by prosecutors.

A 36-year-old Lebanese migrant who was shot dead late last month by German police after yelling “Allahu Akbar” and attacking several people with a knife has been revealed as a convicted sex offender.

A radical Islamist organisation, which calls for the reinstatement of the caliphate and the global sharia law has resurfaced in Britain.

The number of antisemitic incidents in the UK has “surpassed anything we have seen before”, according to a leading Jewish charity.

The rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Britain is likely a result of Islamic extremism, according to a government minister.

An inquest has found that London Bridge terror attack victims Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were unlawfully killed and that failures by probation services, police, and the British domestic intelligence agency MI5 contributed to their deaths.

French police have arrested four people aged 16 to 18, at least three of whom are believed to be of Chechen heritage, on charges of plotting a terrorist attack.

The Austrian government will create a terrorist offenders register that will see those convicted of terror offences placed on the registry for life.

Swedish authorities say that a couple suspected of planning terrorist offences fooled the country’s Migration Agency with false identities, claiming to be from Afghanistan when they are actually believed to be Iranians.

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin has revealed that there are over 1,000 illegal immigrants registered on the Terrorist Radicalisation Prevention Report Index (FSRPT), an anti-terrorism watchlist.

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union foreign ministers on Monday debated ways to maintain support for Afghanistan’s beleaguered government after a brutal weekend attack on a girls’ school underscored deep concern that violence will spread as U.S.-led troops leave the country.

Germany has banned the Islamic NGO Ansaar International after it was accused of sending money to terrorist groups in Syria and Somalia.

Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris.

Spanish authorities have charged three young radical Islamic extremists who had threatened the lives of French citizens in response to the publishing of the Mohammed cartoons by the magazine Charlie Hebdo.

A Syrian Muslim who attacked a homosexual couple with knives, killing one, has no regrets, a German court has heard.

Italian police have arrested a 28-year-old Albanian man suspected of helping procure a weapon for the radical Islamic extremist behind the 2016 Nice terrorist attack.

French security services arrested an 18-year-old woman, along with her mother and three sisters, on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on a church.

British immigration judges handed out lifelong anonymity orders in over 90 per cent of cases involving terrorists and extremists, a report has claimed.

BERLIN (AP) – A German woman accused of taking her son to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and fighting for the extremist group there was arrested Wednesday after landing in Berlin.

HELSINKI (AP) – Finland’s domestic security agency on Tuesday maintained its terror threat assessment at an “elevated” level two on a four-point scale, while noting that the danger of extreme right-wing terrorism has grown in the Nordic country.

Immigration judges have restored the British citizenship of three British-Bangladeshi Islamic State defectors, one of whom was not even born in the country.

One of Britain’s leading right-leaning newspapers has published a bizarre, glamour-style photo shoot of Shamima Begum, an Islamic State defector accused of sewing terrorists into bomb vests, in an article and on social media. 

A man from a family of several jihadists who plotted a radical Islamic terror attack after his release from prison has been convicted at the Old Bailey in London. 

The teenager whose accusations of Islamophobia led to Samuel Paty’s beheading last October had admitted she lied about being in his class when the teacher showed cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

The Security Services criticised poor terror laws, saying they could create a situation where terrorists flee to Sweden to escape prosecution.

Despite being in force since March 2020, no one has been charged under Sweden’s anti-terrorism law that enables the prosecution of members of terrorist groups.

A German court has sentenced 37-year-old Abu Walaa to ten and a half years in prison for his role in trying to radicalise young people.

A Paris court handed out jail terms of between 22 and 30 years to three jihadists after they were found guilty of plotting a terror attack in the French capital in December 2016.

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and MEP Gilbert Collard were in court this week as prosecutors demand a 5,000 euro fine against the two for posting pictures of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter in 2015.

One of the three radical Islamist extremists who plotted to blow up a residential building in Paris claimed that killing babies was justified, according to the Islamic prophet Mohammed.