Islamist terror

An urgent manhunt is reportedly underway for six suspected Iranian-backed Islamist terrorists who illegally entered Britain on migrant boats.

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.

John Atkinson, 28, spent more than an hour dying on the floor on the night of the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack before he was taken to hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.

A British mosque leader, and father of two brothers who waged jihad in Syria, has been charged with suspicion of encouraging terrorism.

An inquest has found that London Bridge terror attack victims Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were unlawfully killed and that failures by probation services, police, and the British domestic intelligence agency MI5 contributed to their deaths.

The victims of two Islamist terror attacks on British soil have been remembered on Saturday, May 22nd: Fusilier Lee Rigby and the 22 victims of the Manchester bombing.

A sobbing paramedic who had just escorted a dying 18-year-old woman to hospital confronted a fireman to demand to know why his colleagues had just “stood around” rather than helping save lives at the Manchester bombing. Fire services had arrived at the scene almost two hours after the Islamist suicide attack because police had failed to inform them and the ambulance service of the incident.

The victims of Thursday’s Islamist terror attack at the Basilica of Notre-Dame of Nice have been identified as a 60-year-old woman, a mother, and a church sacristan.

The father of a pupil who put out a video fatwa on Samuel Paty for showing Mohammed cartoons in class and two teenagers who were paid to identify the teacher are amongst seven to appear before an anti-terror judge in France.

PARIS (AP) — A young man stabbed two people Friday outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where 12 people were killed in 2015, and a terrorism investigation has been opened into the new attack, authorities said.

Muslim extremists have carried out a door-to-door anti-Christian murder campaign this summer, killing over 500 Christians since June, Christianpersecution.com reported.

Radical Islamists raided a town in northeast Nigeria near Lake Chad this week, killing three soldiers and taking hundreds of villagers as hostages.

The suspected attacker responsible for the deadly stabbing in central London was a convicted terrorist who was recently released from prison and believed to possess ties to Islamist terror groups, according to The Times.

Episodes of assassinations, violence, and looting by the Boko Haram terror group have continued virtually unchallenged for many years, said Nigerian cardinal John Onaiyekan, and the government has yet to provide any effective remedy to the problem.

Haider Ahmed has been found guilty of planning to commit a terror attack with a hunting knife in a plot he had hatched when he was 16 or 17 years old.

PARIS (AP) — French authorities have handed preliminary terrorism charges to a long-fugitive extremist suspected of helping organize the deadly 2015 attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Terror convict Anjem Choudary must complete a compulsory de-radicalization program as part of his probation following early release from prison.

A convicted terrorist is released from prison onto the streets of Britain every week, government figures show, as next month sees the release of convicted hate preacher and Islamic State recruiter Anjem Choudary.

There has been a 39 percent surge in the number of terrorists brought to justice in the UK over just one year, hitting its highest level in a decade.

Tunisian migrant Sief Allah H., 29, planned a deadline ricin terror attack against “unbelievers”, according to German prosecutors.

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

Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 27, allegedly drove at police outside Buckingham Palace and then attacked them with a samurai sword because Queen Elizabeth II is an “enemy of Allah”, the Old Bailey has heard.

The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has reached a record high, the Home Office has announced, in a bulletin which highlighted a “steady rise” in “the proportion of prisoners holding far-right ideologies” over recent years. Following the Islamist attacks

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”.

The number of arrests for terror-related offences made in the UK has hit a record annual level, new statistics reveal.

Counter-terror officials believe a serious, well-advanced Islamic extremist terror plot against the UK has been foiled after two potential jihadists were arrested.

PARIS (AP) — A French ex-intelligence chief is expected to addresses failures in tracking Islamic extremists, at the trial over deadly 2012 attacks on a Jewish school and French soldiers.

Around 77 per cent of British jihadists have links to so-called “non-violent” Islamists and extremists, an analysis of 113 terrorists by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBIGC) has found.

An Islamist terror plot designed to blow up a plane in the skies over Australia using bombs concealed inside a Barbie doll and a meat grinder was foiled by Lebanon’s security services.

British and Spanish authorities are concentrating on North Africa and people of migrant background from that region in their efforts to prevent further Islamist attacks after the atrocity in Barcelona this week.

BARCELONA (AFP) – A driver deliberately ploughed a van into pedestrians on one of Spain’s busiest streets on Thursday, injuring a number of people in what police called a “terrorist attack”.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top domestic security agency said Monday it has thwarted suicide bombings in Moscow planned by the Islamic State group in Syria.

More than half (54 per cent) of terror plots in Germany have involved asylum seekers and refugees since 2014 and the onset of the migrant crisis.

The Islamist whose trial was put on hold so he could fast during Ramadan has been found guilty of terrorism offences for sharing Islamist propaganda online.

PARIS (AP) — The jihadis’ targets in Europe are depressingly repetitive: the Brussels metro, the Champs-Elysees in Paris (twice), tourist-filled bridges in London (twice) and a U.K. rock concert. And that’s just the past few months.

LONDON (AP) – The brother of the suicide bomber who attacked the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has been released without charges.