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

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.

Politicians and emergency services officers led tributes to the 52 people who were killed by Islamic extremists in the 2005 attacks.

Italian far-left anarchist terrorist Roberto Cropo has been arrested in the French city of Saint-Étienne. He is believed to be a member of a terrorist cell that carried out a bombing in Rome in 2017.

A Muslim convert who is believed to be the UK’s first female suicide bomb plotter has been jailed for planning to “blow St Paul’s Cathedral to the ground” and “kill as many people as possible”.

A Danish prosecutor has called for terrorism legislation to be invoked in the case of two Swedish nationals on trial for the bombing of a Copenhagen tax office.

Interpol rejected a request from Iran to issue a “red notice” – a call to arrest anywhere in the world – President Donald Trump over the decision to target terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike in January, citing the “political” nature of the move.

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater has charged three alleged rioters with terrorism, rioting, and assault.

An Iranian refugee and Islamic State “fanatic” was jailed for inciting two Islamists, who arrived in Germany during the migrant crisis, to commit a mass act of terror by driving into a crowd in Germany and hacking to death any survivors with meat cleavers and swords. He told the migrants to commit the act of terror to show the victims that “Islam is here”.

Iraqi counter-terrorism units raided the Baghdad headquarters of Kataib Hezbollah (KH) late Thursday night, capturing as many as 23 of the Iran-backed terrorist militia’s fighters, according to Iraqi officials.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan outraged the nation’s political opposition and baffled global observers on Thursday with an impassioned speech in the nation’s parliament in which he referred to late al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden as a “martyr.”

Populist Sweden Democrats MP Björn Söder has called on the Swedish government to consider classifying the far-left anarcho-communist group Antifa as a terrorist organisation.

Despite the figures, the mainstream media focused reporting on right-wing extremists, whose arrests were outnumbered by jihadists 20-to-1.

The British government is reportedly planning to speed up the deportations of failed asylum seekers and criminal migrants. However, there are no plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits returning migrants to failed states.

Khairi Saadallah, the Libyan refugee who has been detained on suspicion of perpetrating the knife attack in Reading, was released early from prison, was enrolled in the government’s Prevent deradicalisation scheme, and is believed to have been known to the UK’s security services as a possible terror suspect before the attack.

Germany has sounded an alarm over the increased violence, and even potential political executions of opponents by far-left Antifa militants.

A 39-year-old American man has been identified as one of the victims of a vicious knife attack in Reading, which authorities are terming a “terrorist incident” that saw three people die and another three left injured. Joe Ritchie-Bennett, a native

The suspect in a knife rampage in Reading, England, which left three dead and three injured has been named as Khairi Saadallah, described by the BBC as a “25-year-old Libyan national from Reading”.

Police have officially declared a deadly stabbing spree in Reading, England, a “terrorist incident”. Video footage on social media showed multiple people with serious injuries being treated by emergency workers in Forbury Gardens after a reportedly unrelated Black Lives Matter event in the area.

Pakistan accused India on Thursday of “using terrorism as a state policy” to destabilize neighboring countries, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported.

Jihadists in Indonesia are calling for violent attacks on Chinese-run businesses amid surging anti-Chinese sentiment in the Muslim-majority nation.

German synagogue shooter and neo-nazi Stephan Balliet attempted to break out of prison last weekend by trying to scale a fence.

The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has slammed the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD) after the party came out in full support of the far-left Antifa extremist group, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to designate it as a terrorist organisation.

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force joined an investigation Thursday into the recent stabbing of a police officer in Brooklyn, New York.

The far-left extremist Antifa movement and its allies have carved a wave of violence, destruction, and even murder for decades in Europe and their history should serve as a warning to the United States of America.

Rutgers lecturer Mark Bray argued this week that it is inappropriate for President Trump to label Antifa as a terrorist group. Bray may be best known for his sympathies for the Antifa movement, which he memorialized in a book that was published in 2017. Bray even donated the proceeds from his book to Antifa movements.

A populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP has called on the European Union and Germany to ban the far-left extremist group Antifa after U.S. President Donald Trump declared it would be designated a terrorist group.

A French judge has dropped terrorism charges against two men who were arrested in connection to a 2017 attack on Paris’s Orly airport, stating there were doubts about a terrorist motive.

A Somali-born naturalized United States citizen was indicted this week for allegedly attempting to join Islamic terrorist group al-Shabab. 

Security experts from the Council of Europe have warned of the possibility of biological terror in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, saying the outbreak has revealed societal vulnerabilities.

An accused terrorist who allegedly opened fire on United States Navy personnel in Corpus Christi, Texas, was able to secure American citizenship through a little-known immigration loophole, a former intelligence agent states.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Kosovo prosecutors on Friday filed terrorism charges against two ethnic Albanian women for allegedly joining the Islamic State group in Syria.

The Supreme Court has reportedly rejected a lawsuit alleging that social media giant Facebook provided “material support” to terrorists by hosting their content on Mark Zuckerberg’s platform.

Law enforcement sources indicate that Pensacola, Florida, Naval Air Base gunman Mohammed Alshamrani had contact with Al Qaeda prior to opening fire on innocents on December 6, 2019.

A Pakistani doctor, admitted to the United States through the H-1B visa program, wanted to attack Americans for the Islamic State (ISIS), federal agents say in a criminal complaint.

Iran on Thursday rejected any and all charges that it might be involved in sponsoring terror organizations around the globe, instead deflecting the criticism by demanding Washington “must stop its state terrorism.”