Islamism

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Kosovo prosecutors on Friday filed terrorism charges against two ethnic Albanian women for allegedly joining the Islamic State group in Syria.

ROME (AP) — Wearing a surgical mask, disposable gloves and booties to guard against Covid-19, a young Italian woman returned to her homeland Sunday after 18 months as a hostage in eastern Africa.

Muslim Fulani raiders in northwest Nigeria slaughtered 12 Christians and kidnapped a couple from their church wedding ceremony in recent days, Christian Today reports.

Copenhagen police say they “averted a terrorist attack” Thursday with the arrest of a man with alleged Islamist motives in the morning.

A third migrant has been arrested following a knife rampage in Romans-sur-Isère, France, believed to be terrorist in nature. 

Romans-sur-Isère (France) (AFP) — A Sudanese refugee went on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France on Saturday, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.

BERLIN (AP) – A German court on Thursday convicted a 31-year-old Tunisian man of planning to carry out a ricin attack in the name of the Islamic State group.

A terrorism trial starts Monday for a Dutch man of Turkish descent who allegedly opened fire on a tram, killing four people.

A man convicted of killing a grieving mother with “industrial strength” acid has launched an Islamist terror attack on prison staff after becoming radicalised behind bars, according to reports. 

LONDON (AP) – A British woman who supported the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to bomb St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 36, from Middlesex in southeast England, admitted to the preparation of terrorist acts

French President Emmanuel Macron has declared his government will fight against “Islamist separatism” with reforms including ending residency for foreign imams.

An Islamist hate preacher continues to proclaim jihad on his YouTube channel, despite having been arrested and banned from social media.

The Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram may be receiving funding from foreign governments, revealed Babajimi Benson, the Chairman of the Nigerian House Committee on Defense on Wednesday. 

A distressing video where an Afghan woman is seen being stoned to death by Islamists is being investigated by Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported Tuesday. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that “really very few” Islamists can be successfully rehabilitated, and says it’s time to emphasise “the custodial option” to protect the public.

Boris Johnson’s government is considering new measures to contain terror convicts after an Islamist freed from prison early stabbed civilians in Streatham, London.

Reports indicate the suspected Islamist terrorist who stabbed people in Streatham, London, had been convicted of terrorism offences previously but was freed from prison early. 

A man has been shot following multiple stabbings in Streatham, South London, in an incident which has been declared “terrorist-related”.

A group of French jihadists, who have been sentenced to death, have decried their treatment in an Iraqi prison, claiming that they have been subjected to “torture” and “humiliation”.

Familes impacted by the Manchester bombing at an Arianna Grande concert will be able to travel to the trial of the bomber’s brother for free.

(AFP) — France’s defence minister departs for Washington on Sunday hoping to convince officials to keep U.S. soldiers in West Africa, where French authorities are under pressure after years of trying to bolster local forces against Islamic extremists.

A classified document from the French security service claims as many as 150 neighbourhoods across France are “held” by radicals. 

Marshall Mathers, stage name Eminem, appeared to compare himself to the Islamist terror bomber who attacked a children’s concert in Manchester, England, in lyrics boasting about his impact on the rap industry.

Police in the French city of Toulouse have arrested a man in connection to a church desecration in which verses from the Islamic Qur’an were written on the walls of the church.

BERLIN (AP) – German police raided premises in four states early Tuesday on suspicion that Chechen Islamists were scouting locations for an attack, officials said.

A senior commander in the Quds Force once led by Qasem Soleimani has vowed that Iran will strike at U.S. forces in the Middle East “without any concern” about it killing their British allies, who will be viewed as “collateral damage”.  

The Belgian Court of Appeal has ruled to remove the passports of six Islamic extremists convicted of terror offences in absentia in 2015 after they left the country to fight for jihadist groups in the Middle East.

LONDON (AP) – A mysterious figure who used a rare narwhal tusk to help subdue a knife-wielding extremist on London Bridge last month has been identified as a civil servant in Britain’s Justice Ministry.

Children of Islamic State fighters and their brides in Syrian holding camps may represent a grave threat to the West, with one telling a British reporter: “We will slaughter you.”

Leaked documents from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs show that the government has planned to fly Islamic State extremists and their children back to Finland.