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Mohamed Farrara Lashtar, the nephew of late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, has established himself as one of the most trusted top officials in the repressive Sandinista regime of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, an extensive profile in the country’s Confidencial news outlet revealed on Monday.

Police have arrested one man under terrorism charges after a woman was stabbed ahead of the Cheltenham horse racing festival in England.

Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen born in California who lately resided in Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty last week to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

The Ombudsman’s Office of Colombia warned on Thursday that the government had reason to believe a wing of the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization had turned an entire town in the nation’s west into a recruitment and training center for child soldiers.

Yasin Kanjaa, a radical Muslim accused of murdering one and injuring several others after attacks in two churches in Spain, has claimed he sees “devils” as authorities look into the state of his mental health.

NEW YORK (AP) – A Lebanese and Belgian citizen considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah was arrested Friday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, federal authorities said.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in Twitter v. Taamneh, a case seeking to hold Twitter responsible for aiding and abetting terrorism because terrorists have been able to use the platform.

The Taliban shut down Afghanistan’s main border crossing with Pakistan on Sunday, vaguely accusing Pakistan of failing to keep certain promises made to the Afghan junta.

Britain’s top counter-terrorism policeman has revealed multiple advanced terrorist plots and even potential school shootings have been stopped recently, and reportedly said influencer Andrew Tate’s alleged advocacy of “violent misogyny” is a “concern”. 

Hundreds of members of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party converged on his residence in Lahore on Thursday night to demonstrate against his possible arrest.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi published a joint statement on Thursday affirming their desire to “boost cooperation in the battle against terrorism,” as well as strengthen commercial and national security ties.

Angela Merkel has been awarded a peace prize for her open borders approach to the European migrant crisis in 2015.

U.N. Undersecretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov said on Thursday that the Islamic State (ISIS) remains a serious threat, with a “particularly worrying” show of growing strength in Africa’s conflict zones.

Led by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) on the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 “anti-dictatorial” revolution, House lawmakers introduced a broad bipartisan resolution in support of a free, democratic, secular, and non-nuclear republic in Iran, with over 160 cosponsors.

“Populist conservatives” are being referred to Britain’s anti-terror programme over radical Islamists, the author of a report into the system has claimed.

The United States Swedish Embassy has issued a terrorism warning, noting a heightened risk of attacks following Qur’an burnings. 

UK counter-terrorism programme focusing on the perceived “mental illness” of would-be perpetrators rather than ideology, a report will claim.

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.

An Italian anarchist currently on hunger strike allegedly praised terrorist actions in prison letters to supporters as far-left extremists have carried out several violent attacks in support of him.

A Sikh man who sought to assassinate the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day has pleaded guilty to treason.

A Swedish Agency has warned Sweden is in the crosshairs of foreign actors claiming that the country is a legitimate target for terror.

Tajmir Jawad, deputy minister of intelligence for the Taliban junta in Afghanistan, boasted in a national television interview on Saturday that he organized a bloody 2018 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed more than a hundred people, including women and children.

Afghanistan’s Khaama Press on Monday reported the Taliban junta is having trouble protecting Chinese business interests from attacks by the Islamic State, which seeks to both wrest control of Afghanistan from its rival Islamist extremists and punish China for its oppression of the Uyghur Muslims.

Court said last week’s stabbings at two churches in Algeciras were likely a jihadist terrorist attack and remanded the suspect in custody. 

Mohammad Farooq was charged with planning to attack an air force base and taking a home-made bomb to a hospital maternity ward.

Eight people were killed and ten wounded on Friday night in Jerusalem, Israel, by a terrorist gunman as they left Sabbath evening prayers. Friday also marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Several churchmen were stabbed in attacks, allegedly by a Moroccan, in two churches in Spain leaving one dead and others seriously injured.

The Turkish government has demanded both Finland and Sweden extradite 130 alleged terrorists as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes new demands for approval of NATO membership. Turkish President Erdogan spoke on Sunday, saying that Finland and Sweden must deport 130

A man has been arrested under anti-terror laws after a Pakistani package containing uranium was sent to an Iranian business based in Britain. 

The Islamic State on Wednesday took credit for a suicide bomb attack near the Afghan Foreign Ministry in Kabul that killed at least five people and wounded 40 more.

A counter-terrorism investigation is underway in Britain after a quantity of uranium was discovered in a Pakistani package at London’s Heathrow Airport.

The murder trial has started for a legal immigrant who arrived in the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery” and is accused of killing eight people in New York City in 2017 in a terrorist attack carried out on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS).

Germany’s allegedly Antifa-linked minister is preparing legislation that will ban people from owning “dangerous” semi-automatic firearms in the country, a report has claimed.

BERLIN (AP) – German investigators on Monday searched two garages used by an Iranian man arrested on suspicion that he could be planning an attack with deadly chemicals.

A rapist barber has once again been jailed in Britain after he was found guilty of sending COVID pandemic payments to ISIS.

An Islamic hate preacher reportedly called for Muslims to target British troops in response to the claimed war kill count of Prince Harry.