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Iranian celebrity chef Navab Ebrahimi was arrested without explanation in Tehran on Wednesday and carted off to its notorious Evin Prison, one of the world’s most hideous dungeons.

The U.N. prepared a troubling report on the insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week, warning that the conflict is intensifying and putting more civilians, including children, at risk of abduction, rape, and torture.

Family members of American troops killed during the battle against the Islamic State in Syria filed suit this weekend against Lafarge SA, a French construction company that pleaded guilty before a U.S. court in October to supporting ISIS and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. 

Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the infamous “Merchant of Death” exchanged for basketball player Brittney Griner in a controversial prisoner swap by the Biden administration two weeks ago, visited the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk on Saturday to attend a political event.

The Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is being detained in U.S. custody, law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic confirmed Sunday.

French authorities in Strasbourg arrested seven radicalised people and have indicted two over allegations of preparing a terrorist attack.

Six years after deadliest peacetime attack on Belgian soil, trial of 10 men over suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station.

Police in Germany reportedly now fear the possibility of a leftist or eco-extremist terror attack occurring in the country.

The website of the EU parliament experienced a significant cyber attack on Wednesday shortly after it declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

Rwandan troops killed a soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who crossed the border on Saturday, the latest escalation in a complex military and political crisis that threatens to destabilize Central Africa.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The government of Colombia and the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN) terrorist organization initiated peace talks on Monday in Venezuela under the auspices of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

An Irish MP has said that Salman Rushdie — the author stabbed by a radical Islamist earlier this year — wrote a “threatening” book that “begged a response”.

In an interview with independent journalist Tera Dahl, Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud denounced the Taliban as no less extreme than the Islamic State and faulted both Western nations and the ousted government of Afghanistan for errors that allowed the Taliban to return to power.

A bomb exploded on a major pedestrian avenue in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday, killing six people and wounding dozens more.

A suspected terrorist has stabbed one policeman to death and shot another in the chest with the slain officer’s service weapon, in Brussels, the national capital of Belgium and the principal capital of the European Union. 

Efforts must be made to avoid climate extremists employing more “radical” methods employed by terror groups, a victim has said.

Danish prosecutors have charged three women, all in their thirties, for promoting terrorism after travelling to Syria where they joined the Islamic State and married members of the jihadist terror organisation.

Salah Abdeslam the only surviving member of the terrorist cell that carried out the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris and has been sentenced to life in prison was married this week by telephone.

The Islamic republic’s “supreme leader” said that the United States has been “defeated” by Iran and assured a crowd of supporters that their “Death to America!” chant would yet be fulfilled as a “new order” would relegate the United States to isolation.

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that the force’s “significant failings” are partly to blame for the deaths that occurred following a radical Islamic terror bombing at Manchester Arena in 2017.

A survivor of the Islamist bombing in Manchester has said that UK authorities made “big mistakes” while dealing with the jihadist attack.

An MP has claimed that the individual who firebombed a border force migrant facility in Dover had no links to the “far-right”.

Local government officials in England will censor the name and ethnicity of the London Bridge terrorist in an official report, to avoid “demonising” Muslims.

Islamic State terrorists on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims at a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz.

A top spokesman for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorist movement in Yemen threatened attacks on international oil tankers this weekend after the legitimate government of the country revealed a Houthi attack on the al-Dhabba oil terminal.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian insisted on Saturday that despite public proclamations the Iran nuclear deal is dead, the Biden administration is secretly “in a hurry to reach the agreement,” and the Iranians are getting a bit annoyed with the Biden team’s constant behind-the-scenes pleading.

Israel police on Sunday released bodycam footage of an officer neutralizing a Palestinian terrorist in a soccer field after he had stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem.

A Syrian Kurdish security official said on Monday that a drone strike launched by the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition killed an ISIS militant while he was riding a motorcycle through the village of Hamam al-Turkman, which is currently controlled by Syrian militia forces aligned with Turkey.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin declared the bombing of the Kerch Strait bridge, which connects Russia to occupied Crimea, “an act of terrorism aimed at destroying Russia’s civilian and critical infrastructure” at a Russian Security Council meeting on Monday, promising a “massive strike” on Ukraine in response.

A Flemish woman who was present at the Brussels National Airport in 2016 during a radical Islamic terror attack has been euthanised at the age of 23 due to psychological trauma and suffering.

The Taliban terrorist organization, operating as the de facto government of Afghanistan, signed a major agreement with Russia last week that would significantly reduce pressure on the country’s fuel supply — but at an unclear price, the American outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) noted on Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which recently said that questioning official narratives on matters like coronavirus policies constitutes a terrorist threat, has awarded nearly $700,000 to left-wing researchers to study radicalization in video games, with a focus on “white supremacy.”

Syrian Foreign Minister Fayssal Mekdad’s address to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday was a funhouse-mirror view of the world from the vantage point of a brutal dictatorship.

The far-left, self-proclaimed social justice warrior Abigail Disney disavowed a documentary, that, among other things, exposes terrorism directed by a woman that she openly supported after Muslim critics lambasted it, forcing the Sundance Film Festival to rescind its invitation.

A man charged with 14 terrorism offences by London police has been named as Ismail Kissa. 

German anti-terror police in northern Hesse have carried out a series of arrests against a gang accused of smuggling Syrians and also helping radical Islamic State terrorists enter Europe.