Britain’s Security Service (MI5) will give the identity of terror suspects to police officers, teachers, and social workers in a bid to stop plots and deter extremism, the Home Secretary announced Monday.
MI5 Director-General Andrew Parker has warned the threat of radical Islamic terrorism in Britain shows “no sign of abating”, with 25 plots foiled since 2013.
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MI5 Director-General Andrew Parker has said the Islamist threat is operating on an unprecedented scale and has increased “dramatically” over the past year.
The Britain people should prepare for the threat from Islamist attacks to continue for another three decades, a former MI5 chief has said.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said that following several arrests, members of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s terror network could “potentially” still be at large.
The FBI warned UK security chiefs that Manchester jihadi Salman Abedi was plotting an attack in Britain, an inside source has claimed.
The pace of terror plots successfully intercepted and prevented by Britain’s intelligence and counter-terror agencies considerably quickened in the months leading up to the Manchester attack. Security service sources have revealed five terror plots were foiled between the Westminster attack
UK authorities adopted an “open door” policy for Libyan heritage Britons, including associates of the Manchester bomber, returning to the war-torn nation to fight alongside jihadist and al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Four London men have been charged with terror-related offences following an investigation by MI5 which uncovered a plot to attack a UK target.
The police and security services missed at least five opportunities over five years to stop Salman Abedi from carrying out his deadly terror attack, it has emerged.
Whitehall sources have told The Times that security services have identified 350 Islamic State militants who have returned to Britain from Syria and who pose a potential terror threat.
LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s intelligence expertise may be “too precious” to use as a bargaining tool in the upcoming Brexit talks, experts said, after a terror attack in London highlighted the need for continued European security cooperation.
Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed the Westminster attacker who killed three on Wednesday was “British-born” and had been investigated by security forces in the past. Speaking in parliament, Mrs May said the man was known to police and MI5 and
British Prime Minister Theresa May has asked spy chiefs to help tackle illegal immigration into the UK as Europe’s migrant crisis rumbles on for a second year. Mrs May has asked the heads of intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ
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Britain has raised the threat level from dissident Northern Ireland militants to “substantial,” meaning an attack on the British mainland is considered a strong possibility, Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Theresa May said on Wednesday. May said the decision by the
A former senior British intelligence officer wants to give evidence that the country’s security services knew about what he claims was the ‘torture’ of inmates at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, a newspaper reported. The former officer is seeking
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
The former head of British counterterrorism suggested this week that the best way to deal with ISIS sympathizers in the UK might be to let them have their wish and travel to the Islamic State, surrendering their passports on the way out. Former Scotland Yard assistant commissioner Robert Quick even recommended providing expatriates with charter flights to get rid of them more efficiently.
A week after a pair of “lone wolf” jihadis were killed in an aborted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, ISIS supporters are generating a wave of social media chatter under the hashtag #LondonAttack, promising a new wave of terrorist violence.
Security services have been told to recruit agents from sources such as Mumsnet in order redress the gender balance in these government departments, a group of MPs has said. The Intelligence and Security Commission’s report into diversity in the security services
The Head of MI5 has warned of a Paris style atrocity by Islamic terrorist groups taking place in Britain. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute, Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Services, said extremists were “trying to
