BAMAKO, Mali (AP) – Mali’s foreign minister is accusing France of having colluded with the same Islamic extremists that it spent nearly a decade fighting until its troops departed earlier this week, an allegation sharply denied by the French government.
(AFP) – Scottish police said on Sunday they were investigating an apparent “online threat” made to Harry Potter author JK Rowling in response to her tweet supporting Salman Rushdie following his stabbing.
Salman Rushdie’s agent has said “the news is not good” in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.
The Administrative Court of Paris halted the deportation of Imam Hassan Iquioussen on Friday after he had been set to leave the country for hate preaching on the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin slammed members of the far-left party France Insoumise, who he accused of defending a radical Islamist imam set for deportation from France.
The Greek government has called on Germany to halt the sale of attack submarines to Turkey, arguing that the sale could upset the naval balance of power in the region as tensions with the Islamist-led country remain high.
Three men in the Swedish city of Linköping have been sentenced to prison over their involvement in riots triggered by anti-Islam activists burning the Qur’an. More burnings are now planned.
Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.
Stoltenberg said he had a “constructive phone call” with Erdogan, calling Turkey a “valued ally” despite its hostile actions against Greece and ongoing occupation of much of Cyprus.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that Iran took the oil from two Greek tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.
The military forces of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced on Wednesday that a joint military operation against Islamist insurgents in eastern Congo will be extended into a “third phase” because the enemy has not been “eradicated.”
A court has convicted six people over harassment and death threats sent to a French teenager who was critical of Islam on social media.
The rock band Eagles of Death Metal provided testimony about the night Islamic State extremists killed 130 people at thier 2015 concert.
Pro-government protesters in the Malian capital of Bamako unfurled Russian flags and banners with slogans such as “Down with France” in a bizarre demonstration on Friday.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed disapproval at the idea of Sweden and Finland joining the NATO military alliance, claiming they harbour terrorists and terrorist organisations. President Erdogan hinted at a possible veto of the two Scandinavian countries, as
An internal report has claimed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is not doing enough to monitor extremism in Canadian prisons and prisons need to do more to share more information.
A 38-year-old radicalised Muslim man was handed a weak six-month suspended sentence by a French court this week for threatening to kill a local imam.
Almost a third of Swedes say they are for banning political demonstrations that are offensive to sections of the community following multi-day riots over Easter sparked by anti-Islam protesters burning copies of the Qur’an.
Nigel Farage says it is “crazy” that Donald Trump was banned from Twitter but the radical Islamic extremist Taliban remained on the platform even as it stormed Kabul.
Swedish police have reported that 104 officers were injured in the riots that took place across the country last week in reaction to Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan and his followers burning a Qur’an.
The suspected terrorist accused of murdering Sir David Amess told a court that he killed the Tory MP for voting for air strikes in Syria.
Family members of teacher Samuel Paty, who was murdered by a Chechen refugee in 2020, have filed a complaint against the French government for not doing enough to prevent his death.
A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service.
Despite initially ruling out terrorism, German officials have now admitted that radical Islam, not mental health issues, was the likely motivation for a Syrian knifeman’s stabbing spree on a German train last November.
(AP) — British lawmaker Sir David Amess was “assassinated” while meeting constituents last year by a “fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist,” a court heard Monday as the accused killer went on trial.
In an apparent move of desperation, Germany has agreed to a gas deal with Islamist Qatar to try and wean itself off Russian energy.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has shared footage of his men opening fire on an apartment block in Mariupol, the encircled coastal stronghold of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running damage control after three men were executed during his oil-begging visit to Saudi Arabia.
Labour’s newly-elected MP for Birmingham Erdington won a Thursday special election despite last-minute revelations of what appear to be extreme racial views.
Vladimir Putin’s Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov made a sinister reference to Ukraine’s “beautiful girls”, particularly those in embattled Kharkiv (Kharkov).
The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account.
The Mufti of the Chechen Republic has endorsed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, backed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, saying that the invaders are “on the path of Allah”.
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Federation’s Muslim-majority Chechen Republic, is prepared to unleash up to 70,000 fighters on Ukraine to support his “commander-in-chief”, Vladimir Putin.
Norway said it would press the Taliban with “tangible demands” during talks on Tuesday, the last day of the Islamists’ visit to Europe.
Malik Faisal Akram was reportedly referred to Britain’s anti-terrorism Prevent programme twice, with the latest referral coming in 2019.
Jihadi bride Tareena Shakil, free after serving less than half of her short jail sentence, says she “regrets” joining the Islamic State.
(AFP) — After nine years deployed in Mali, France is organising a drawdown, with troops preparing to leave the last of three bases in the far north of the insurgency-hit and poverty-wracked country.
BERLIN (AP) – German security officials said Friday that they have foiled a planned Islamist attack, after arresting a man in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives.
Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen reportedly entered the UK with a forged passport from Jordan resulting in his asylum claim being denied.
The former head of a Muslim school in Sweden is accused of scamming millions of Swedish kronor from taxpayers and funnelling the cash to Somalia where it funded an Islamist group.
