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(AFP) — French police on Tuesday arrested 29 people in a sting operation targeting a network of terror financing for jihadists in Syria, prosecutors said. The network, active since 2019, mostly operated via the purchase of crypto-currency coupons whose references

Three people have been arrested following a raid on individuals thought to be linked to the far-left anarchist Popular Fighters Group (OLA) terrorist organisation.

This week, YouTube and Zoom pulled the plug on a livestream event hosted by San Francisco State University featuring Leila Khaled, an activist that is best known for her participation in two airplane hijackings that took place in the 1970s. SFSU President Lynn Mahoney argued that that Zoom’s decision to “silence” Khaled is “deeply wounding” to members of the university community.

The man suspected of gunning down a “much-loved” custody sergeant in Croydon Police Station “was known to counter-terrorism police”, according to BBC sources.

Iraqi President Barham Salih told the 2020 U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that his country is struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, which struck Iraq after years of difficult and expensive struggles with extremism, terrorism, and corruption, at a moment when falling oil prices were cutting into the nation’s income.

Andrew Roussos, the father of eight-year-old Saffie who was killed in an Islamist terror attack three years ago, has criticised the government for failing to learn security lessons following the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States and the 7/7 Islamist bombings in London.

The iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, has been shut down and cordoned off after a bomb threat was called in.

Hostile foreign actors, violent extremists, and domestic criminals are taking advantage of the “unique and unprecedented” impact the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is having on the FBI workforce to wreak havoc in the U.S. on several fronts, the bureau’s director Christopher Wary warned Thursday.

A 21-year-old man was arrested in the city of Montpellier after attempting to hold three police officers at knifepoint while praising and advocating terrorism.

Murderous Islamist extremists were not enthusiastic about the Abraham Accords peace deal between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain. The world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, issued an implicitly violent rejection of the accord, while Iran-backed terrorist organizations were even less subtle.

Rockets fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip injured six people Tuesday evening, in what appeared to be in protest over the concurrent signing of the peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain which the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group has called an act of “aggression.”

DOHA, Qatar — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively that the process is moving along on pace for a full withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the spring of 2021.

Almost half of the Islamic terrorists who hijacked planes in the United States on September 11, 2001, overstayed their visas due to an immigration loophole that remains open, used by more than half a million foreign nationals every year. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has extended Britain’s condolences to the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks on “America’s darkest of days.”

Pompeo told reporters on the way to Doha, Qatar, that the United States is committed to ending the war in Afghanistan once and for all and eventually reducing American forces on the ground there to zero.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acting Secretary Chad Wolf is rejecting claims that his agency is downplaying the threat of terrorism by white Americans.

The French satirical newspaper whose editorial team was murdered by Islamist gunmen in 2015 has reprinted a series of cartoons of Mohammed.

Tnuza Jamal Hassan, a former student of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, pled guilty last week to charges related to her ties to Al-Qaeda. During her freshman year, Hassan anonymously encouraged two of her peers to join the terrorist group. In January 2018, Hassan set several fires on campus in the name of Al-Qaeda.

An illegal alien, who allegedly sympathizes with Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism, has been indicted for allegedly ambushing New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers in a knife attack in Brooklyn, New York.

The Muslim Council of Britain has claimed that British media has placed a “disproportionate focus” on Islamic terrorist attacks.

Pope Francis sent out a message condemning religious terrorism Saturday to mark the U.N.’s International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.

Hashem Abedi, convicted of 22 murders for his part in his brother Salman’s suicide bombing of the Manchester Arena in 2017, has been sentenced to a minimum of 55 years in prison.

The brother of Samia Abedi, the Manchester Arena bomber, is facing life in prison for his role in the mass murder of mostly young Ariana Grande concert-goers in 2017. Hashem Abedi refused to leave his cell and face his sentencing

An alleged Islamist terror plotter has told an English court he viewed terrorist videos only as “research” and that the Islamic State was fabricated by the U.S. to encourage Islamophobia. 

An attack by the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab at a Somali beach resort on Sunday has killed 15 people and left more than 20 people wounded, raising fresh questions about the resurgent threat of the East African terrorist group. 

PARIS (AP) – Prime Minister Jean Castex paid homage on Friday to six French aid workers killed last week in Niger, saying they were likely victims of the same kind of hate behind the 2015 terror attack on a French music hall.

PARIS (AP) — French anti-terrorism prosecutors formally opened an investigation one day after eight people, including six French nationals, were killed by gunmen in a Niger giraffe park.

BERLIN — German prosecutors said Monday a German woman who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria was arrested upon her return to the country. She is accused of membership in a foreign terrorist group, war crimes against property and other crimes.

Radical Islamic jihadists make up 82 per cent of the prisoners jailed for terrorist offences across ten European countries, with more terrorists in prison than at any time over the past twenty years, a report has found. The International Centre

British jihadists are pretending to be reformed, using the Islamic concept of “taqiyya”, in order to facilitate an early release from prison into the community where they pose a fresh risk to the public.

A bizarre hostage standoff in Ukraine ended after 11 hours on Tuesday night when the “unstable” and heavily-armed suspect surrendered, in part because one of his demands was met: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to post a video message recommending viewers watch a 2005 movie about animal rights narrated by Joker star Joaquin Phoenix.

Islamic State defector Shamima Begum will be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to appeal the government’s decision to strip her of her British citizenship.

Two Islamic convert girls have been sentenced after being convicted of plotting to attack a police station in the city of Saint-Etienne. 

At least 356 Nigerian soldiers fighting Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria have reportedly requested retirement citing “loss of interest,” Sahara Reporters revealed on Sunday.

A jihadist who was acquitted in 2018 of terrorism after attacking a police officer with a sword outside of Buckingham Palace while yelling “Allah hu Akbar” has been jailed for a terror plot to attack London’s gay pride festival.

When four Muslim suicide bombers blew themselves up during the infamous 7/7 atrocities of 2005, 52 people died and more than 700 were injured.