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There is no information linking the New Zealand terror attack to anyone in the United States, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Friday afternoon.

UK authorities are facing the “headache” of an influx of returning ISIS fighters’ wives and children after the fall of the terror group’s caliphate in Syria, according to reports.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, during a speech on the Middle East delivered in Cairo Thursday, praised the United States as a “force for good” in the region and blasted previous President Barack Obama’s administration for underestimating Islamic extremism and the Iranian menace.

The terrorist who opened fire in Strasbourg killed two, wounded numerous others, and proved once against that even the most stringent gun controls cannot stop a determined attacker. 

BERLIN (AP) – German police have conducted a large-scale anti-terror drill at Cologne-Bonn airport, in the west of the country, amid ongoing concerns about the threat posed by Islamic extremists. Some 1,000 officers took part in the exercise early Wednesday,

Labour has defended inviting a notorious Islamist preacher to appear at a party event, claiming that collaboration with “faith groups” is an “essential part of the fight against the scourge of racism”.

German prosecutors say they’ve arrested a 17-year-old man on suspicion he was planning an Islamic extremist bombing attack in the Frankfurt area.

German authorities say they have arrested a Russian national suspected of plotting an Islamic extremist attack in Germany along with an alleged accomplice detained last year in France.

Left-wing Islamic activist Linda Sarsour has ties to the father of the man arrested for allegedly training children to carry out school shootings on a New Mexico compound.

An alleged Islamic extremist, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, planned to exorcise his son before he was arrested in a raid on a “filthy” New Mexico compound.

Nobody has harmed the Palestinian cause over the years more than Arab extremists, a former Kuwaiti information minister said in a recent interview.

The trial of a 20-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, accused of plotting to detonate explosives in a crowd in Germany, has started at a court in Hamburg this week.

In 2011, James Clapper described the Muslim Brotherhood — an Islamist umbrella organization and the progenitor of Islamic terrorist organizations such as Hamas — as a “largely secular” network of organizations that has “eschewed violence.”

Former President Barack Obama told an audience at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event in South Africa Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth that income inequality and other disruptions caused by a “backlash” against globalization and liberalization were factors in the 9/11 attacks, the resurgence of populism, Chinese aggression, and the rise of President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

A 30-year-old man in Sweden has been arrested in connection with a murder and according to investigators, he travelled to the Middle East to fight for Islamic State.

The 29-year-old Tunisian migrant arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack was making a deadly biological ricin bomb, according to investigators.

A 32-year-old man was arrested Sunday in the Belgian city of Liege after he threatened to use a weapon on a restaurant manager while shouting “Allahu Akbar”.

Google Plus has reportedly become overrun with ISIS accounts, who are openly sharing Islamic extremist content and calling for violence on the platform.

French psychiatrist Pierre-François Godet has denied a causal link between radical Islamic terrorism and mental illness saying that he could find no objective studies that proved any direct links between the two.

A female radical Islamic extremist has been caught by French police in possession of a USB key that contained the names and identities of 2,626 intelligence officials from France’s Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI).

Rising fundamentalism amongst Muslim youths in Germany is sparking alarm in the nation’s schools, with more and more teachers seeking help in dealing with radicalised pupils.

A San Francisco federal appeals court ruled Twitter is not responsible for the ISIS murder of two Americans.

Two prison guards at the Borgo prison in Corsica were wounded Friday after a group of three inmates including a radical Islamic extremist attacked them with knives while shouting “Allahu Akbar”.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Fox News national security strategist and former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, praised the president’s national security strategy unveiled Monday, noting that American leadership “is back.”

TEL AVIV — Many prominent Saudi clerics have kept silent in the wake of comments made by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Tuesday that Saudi Arabia destroy “extremist ideologies” in a campaign to return to “a more moderate Islam.”

A former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and current Imam of the city’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, who has a long history of anti-Semitic hate speech, is heading to Britain.

Three Islamist women, including a mother and daughter accused of planning a knife rampage outside the Houses of Parliament, appeared in court today.

TEL AVIV — Hamas politburo member Khali Elhayeh has requested that Arab countries not confuse terrorism with “resistance” in a sermon for al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the month of Ramadan.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was monitored by undercover security officers for 20 years over fears he was trying to undermine democracy, as it also emerged the Labour leader addressed a rally attended by the notorious Islamist group said to have inspired the London Bridge attack.

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said on Sunday at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh that the global community must be united in its fight against terrorism in all forms. President Donald Trump also spoke.