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
Jihadist fanatics returning from foreign battlefields might use the chaos at Calais as a means of sneaking back to the UK undetected. Terror suspects and extremists have already used illegal immigrants as cover to enter Europe and hiding in lorries could
British Muslims are not flocking to join IS because they feel it is a religious duty. Instead they embrace jihad because they want sex, according to a UK preacher. Former Islamist Alyas Karmani said that the young Muslims feel isolated in
Muslims must take responsibility for the radicalisation of their community and stop blaming others, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to say later today. He will tell an international security conference that the time for blame shifting about the
Two more suspects have appeared in court in connection with the “bank of terror” plot to con vulnerable pensioners out of their money in order to fund Islamic State. Fahim Islam, 20, and Achmed Ahmed, 22, have been remanded in
Chlorine is now the chemical weapon of choice for IS terrorists in Syria and Iraq and there is a growing chance of a chlorine bomb attack on British soil, a chemical warfare expert has warned. Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, who
British twins who fled to Syria to join Islamic State are now believed to be on the run from the terror group and may be trying to return home. The Sun reports that Somali-born Zahra and Salma Halane, both 17,
Waheed Ahmed, the son of a Labour councillor in Rochdale, has been arrested by anti-terror police in Birmingham. He was detained this morning after being returned from Turkey following a suspected attempt to join Islamic terrorist groups in Syria. Greater
Almost 40 percent of British Muslims think MI5 and the police are at least partly to blame for radicalising teenagers who flee the country to join Islamic State, a survey has revealed. The poll by Survation for Sky News also
The ‘Muslim Youth League UK’ (MYLUK) has declared jihad on Islamic State and its local followers, which it claims have together deviated from the true path of its religion. Concerned that terrorist groups were using the more violent passages of
A 17 year old army cadet has chosen to defy terrorist threats by wearing her cadet uniform to and from school. All police and military personnel, including members of the combined cadet force, have been advised not to wear their
