Tag: British jihad

A father of two jihadist terrorists killed in Syria has been jailed for 18 months after threatening to have his estranged wife shot if she gave evidence against him.

A pair of sisters and their mother are accused of plotting the UK’s first all-female Islamic State-inspired terror attack on London, spurred on by a fighter in Syria.

The police and security services missed at least five opportunities over five years to stop Salman Abedi from carrying out his deadly terror attack, it has emerged.

BAGHDAD (AFP) – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.

A European Council directive to curb the ability of terrorists to plot attacks is being opposed by civil liberties groups including Amnesty International, who say it undermines human rights and unfairly targets ethnic minorities.

Some of the most notorious jihadists in Europe used British welfare payments to fund international terrorism, including the Paris and Brussels attacks, a court has heard.

One of the boys shown murdering prisoners in Islamic State’s new propaganda video is British, the terror group alleges. The footage shows five boys dressed in camouflage standing behind a row of kneeling prisoners in orange jumpsuits. After one boy makes a statement

The British government is to set up a £2.4 million fund to pay for far-reaching “protective security” measures at religious institutions and buildings.

Some Muslim parents would not speak out if their children went to Syria to fight with terrorists, according to a new study conducted in Birmingham. Muslim parents told academics they feared police would arrest family members who traveled to Syria. The

A hapless terrorist, claiming to be from London, has said he misses the Greggs chain of bakeries after travelling to Syria to wage Jihad. Speaking to journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem, the masked Jihadi, introduced as Abu Abdullah Britani, explained how he had left

More than 50 British jihadis who traveled to Syria to fight have been issued permission slips to leave Islamic State, prompting fears that some could be planning to return to Europe to undertake terrorist attacks. Desertion is punishable by death

An investigation into three brothers who left Brighton to fight in Syria has uncovered a further 25 jihadists in the south coast town. Court orders have prevented a further three from travelling to join jihadist groups, but counter-terrorism officials warn

Surrey’s police chief has warned that Islamic terrorists may be sheltering in the Jungle in Calais, as the area is completely “un-policed”. Migrant rights activists have slammed his comments but he has stood by them. Kevin Hurley, a former head

Pictures have emerged of a six-year-old in Britain being groomed for jihad. Brandishing a sword in front of the black flag of Islamic State, the boy raises his right index finger, a traditional sign used to signify that Allah is

The first white British man known to have joined ISIS in Syria has been revealed as the middle class son of an organic farmer and a book editor. School friends in his home town of Oxford say that Jack Letts,

Sunday schools, church groups, choirs and Scout troops will all be swept up by broad surveillance proposals designed to confront Islamic radicalism in teaching institutions. New Ofsted rules designed to monitor any organisation which interacts with a child for more than six

(AFP) – Some 600 Britons have been stopped from going to Syria to try to join Islamic State and other jihadist groups, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in comments reported Saturday. Meanwhile some 800 have made it through since 2012,

JAFFA, Israel – A prominent Saudi media outlet is striking back at British officials who accused the kingdom of fanning the flames of terror. The British officials relied on a German intelligence report and similar statements by German officials indicating that

Islamist extremists are increasingly using British jails as fertile venues to recruit inmates as potential terrorists, the departing chief inspector of prisons has warned. Nick Hardwick spoke out after the former head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard was appointed to succeed

LONDON (AP) — A man who allegedly screamed “this is for Syria” as he slashed a passenger’s neck in a London underground station had images associated with the Islamic State group on his mobile phone, prosecutors said Monday. Muhaydin Mire, who

LONDON (Reuters) – London police could deal with an attack by heavily armed marauding terrorists, one of the capital’s most senior officers said on Wednesday, rejecting suggestions the mostly unarmed force would struggle to cope with a Paris-style assault. Following

The mastermind behind the Paris attacks was radicalised by an extremist network inspired by a radical British cleric, it has emerged. The network, Sharia4Belgium, has links to at least six British extremists in total, including an ISIS bomb maker from

Hungarian Police have detained two British Muslims just months after one of them stood trial, accused of attempting to join Islamic State. They are thought to have been on their way to Turkey and ultimately Syria, but will now be

Britain has foiled seven terror attacks in the past year, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, Mr Cameron said that seven attacks had been “stopped” by British security services and that

Murdered soldier Lee Rigby’s mother is determined to ensure his name is remembered in school’s across the country while at the same time warning children against the hate-filled ideology of Islamic extremism. Lyn Rigby says she wants to be allowed into schools

Britain’s youngest convicted terrorist was recruited and radicalised online by a jihadist living in Syria, a court has heard. The youth from Blackburn, Lancashire, who at 15 is too young to be named, built up an extremist network via social

More than 3,000 home-grown Islamic extremists are currently being monitored by MI5 and counter-terrorism police, a 50 per cent increase in just seven years. Many of those are British teenagers, both male and female, who are being radicalised within weeks

Britain has killed two of its own nationals who had been fighting for Islamic State (IS) and plotting attacks on British soil, in its first air strike in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. Despite not having a

Extract from an interview with former Islamic radical Sohail Ahmed published by The Docklands and East London Advertiser: Over the last five years physics student Sohail Ahmed claims to have witnessed fiery speeches about jihad during Friday prayer at Queen Mary

Terrorists trapped in the UK are a festering presence and the nation faces a greater threat from them now than it did 10 years ago today when London was bombed by Islamists. Scotland Yard’s former counter-terror boss and head of special operations

Ten years ago today, 52 British civilians were murdered in the first ever suicide bombings to occur in Western Europe and the biggest bomb attack seen in London since the Second World War. In all another 700 were injured in the

A Muslim cleric with links to the Islamic terror group behind the Tunisian beach terrorist attack is living on benefits in a £1 million home in a leafy London suburb. Hate preacher Hani al-Sibai shares the large home with his wife and five children.

The British government’s tolerance of Islamist hate preachers exporting violence from London in the 1990s may have come back to haunt it. Court papers reveal the gunman who murdered 36 tourists – mostly Britons – on a Tunisian beach has been

UK Prime Minister David Cameron believes that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with religion. We know that because he’s always banging on about it. Perhaps he should talk to his counterpart in Tunisia. The first thing Habib Essid did

The public should support UK Armed Forces Day. That is the simple message delivered today by police after reports Islamic State had planned to target a London parade. IS had plotted to detonate a pressure cooker bomb at a parade