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French police in the department of Drôme have arrested an 18-year-old they claim was plotting to carry out a terrorist attack over the weekend and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group. The 18-year-old was arrested last Friday, then indicted

Spanish authorities have arrested and placed under investigation five young men, all linked to a radical party in Pakistan, who are believed to have glorified terrorist attacks, including the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. All five of the young men

The Spanish Interior Ministry has warned prison guards and other prison officials to take extreme caution over threats to their safety from Jihadi inmates after threats made in a radical Islamic magazine. the Interior Ministry warned prison employees to take

A 21-year-old who was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a coworker has been revealed to be a former Islamic State terrorist who managed to obtain a security job at Austria’s largest Chinese coronavirus vaccination site. The 21-year-old was arrested in

The number of people deemed a risk to Sweden has increased, the Swedish Security Service says, despite many having deportation orders. 

Members of the Islamic State terrorist group have celebrated the ongoing conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, expressing hope the war will spread to other European countries.

The French government introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism.

The Interior Minister revealed France deported 1,100 dangerous migrants in the last six months, including criminals and Islamic extremists. 

The Taliban’s Anas Haqqani was reported to Norwegian police for war crimes over the weekend amid a Taliban delegation visiting the country.  

Malik Faisal Akram was reportedly referred to Britain’s anti-terrorism Prevent programme twice, with the latest referral coming in 2019.

Convicted radical Islamic terrorist Abderrahman Bouanane, who committed the first Islamist attack in Finland, is again in court.

2021 saw the largest number of politically motivated crimes since the Federal Criminal Police Office began recording statistics in 2001. 

Belgium has stripped the residency permit of the chief imam of the country’s largest mosque Mohamed Toujgani over national security concerns. 

The returned Islamic State woman allegedly recruited her own son into the Islamic State militia, prosecutors say.

Police arrested a man described as a radical Islamic extremist on after he allegedly kidnapped and 15-year-old girl.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed on Tuesday that the state would be temporarily closing a mosque in Beauvais following reports that its imam had made hate comments, specifically inciting hatred against Christians, Jews, and gay people.

A suspected radical Islamic terrorist was arrested this week at a migrant reception facility in Venice. He is believed to belong to an Islamic State cell.

Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen reportedly entered the UK with a forged passport from Jordan resulting in his asylum claim being denied.

German police say they found Islamic State videos in the possession of the Syrian migrant who stabbed four people on a train this month.

A knifeman who shouted “Allahu Akbar… France is ruled by the Islamic State” was shot by police in a Paris train station on Monday evening.

Three Islamic State women were flown back to Sweden last week with their children from Syria and arrested for war crimes, but all three have subsequently been released.

Seven people are so far in custody and another 30 are under investigation by Austrian authorities in connection with the November 2020 terrorist attack in Vienna that saw four people murdered. Those arrested and currently under investigation are said to

A disproportionate focus on the far-right has taken away the necessary resources from confronting Islamist extremists in the UK’s battle against terrorism, a report has claimed. A report from the Henry Jackson Society claimed that political correctness has resulted in

An 11-year-old pupil yelled “Allahu Akbar” during a school tribute to murdered teacher Samuel Paty, while the child’s father was later arrested for threatening to burn the school down.

Tory MPs have called for Boris Johnson to end online anonymity in the wake of the suspected terror attack on Sir David Amess MP.

The French Interior Ministry has claimed that a majority of online Islam content in France is connected to radical ideology. 

The Muslim Council of Britain has warned its members and mosques that they may face attacks in the wake of the killing of Sir David Amess MP.

The French platform for reporting illegal content online says it made nearly 10,000 reports of terrorist material this year, a figure over 200 per cent higher than last year.

The French prefecture of Sarthe has closed the mosque of Allonnes after evidence revealed that sermons advocated for armed jihad.

An Algerian linked to the Islamic State who was arrested by Spanish police and is believed to have led a terrorist cell in Barcelona came to Spain as an illegal immigrant.

The French Ministry of National Education proposes holding tributes in schools to the memory of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in the street last year by a radical Islamic terrorist.

Germany and Denmark have brought back 11 Islamic State women and 37 children from prison camps in Syria, with Denmark arresting three of the women immediately upon their return.

Greek police have arrested a 34-year-old Iraqi national who has been rejected for asylum twice on suspicion of having ties to the Islamic State.

Self-confessed Muslims on social media have celebrated a car crash that left cartoonist Lars Vilks and two police officers dead on Sunday.

The French government has announced it will be disbanding six mosques and a number of other associations over radicalisation fears.

The Polish government has claimed to have evidence of Islamic radicalism among migrants crossing its border illegally from Belarus, while others have accused the country of “Islamophobia”.