A convicted terrorist is released from prison onto the streets of Britain every week, government figures show, as next month sees the release of convicted hate preacher and Islamic State recruiter Anjem Choudary.

There has been a 39 percent surge in the number of terrorists brought to justice in the UK over just one year, hitting its highest level in a decade.

The number of terrorism-related arrests in Britain has surged almost 70 per cent to a new record high, as the country’s security services grapple an unprecedented threat.

The Church of England must step up security to protect staff and worshippers as they could be targeted as Britain faces a “severe” threat of terror from Islamist attackers, an expert in church security has said.

There is “no point” putting Muslims in Britain under scrutiny after three terror attacks in three months, according to Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who argued the UK should include Islamophobia in its definition of “extremism”.

The only way to protect Poland from Islamic terror attacks is to not allow Muslims to migrate en masse, a British-born, senior MEP for the nation’s ruling party said on Monday. “When it comes to reducing the chances of Poland

The rate of beheadings and Islamist-inspired stabbings has risen 11-fold in the last five years according to a major new report. Terror attacks in the UK also tripled during this period. The 1000-page report by the Henry Jackson Society examines all

Britain’s new terrorism watchdog Max Hill has expressed “enormous concern” about returning jihadis, warning that Islamic terrorists have UK cities in their sights for future attacks. Mr Hill, who was unveiled last week as the new independent reviewer of terrorism

Christmas events across the UK are being guarded by armed officers, as police warn a terror assault is “highly likely” following the deadly attack in Berlin.

Bristol has stepped up police presence in the city centre to combat potential Islamophobia in the wake of the Berlin terror attack.

Some Muslim parents would not speak out if their children went to Syria to fight with terrorists, according to a new study conducted in Birmingham. Muslim parents told academics they feared police would arrest family members who traveled to Syria. The

Islamic State jihadists are reportedly plotting more than 20 terror attacks on British soil as a follow-up from the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels. Officials at security service MI5 suspect that more than 50 extremists among the 450 or

British police arrested 280 terror suspects last year, including 45 women and 16 children, Home Office figures reveal. Although the total number of arrests has fallen slightly, there has been a surge in the number of female suspects and under-18s

(Reuters) – Two Britons were jailed on Friday after being arrested in Hungary where they were suspected of heading to Syria, in breach of strict travel constraints because they had convictions for terrorism offences. Trevor Brooks, 40, and Simon Keeler,

A teenager from Blackburn is facing jail after being convicted of attempting to flee to Syria to wage holy war with Islamic State. Ednane Mahmood, 19, was found guilty of attempting to travel to Syria to commit acts of terrorism

Neighbours of a terror suspect have described him as a “smashing neighbour” from a “nice, loving family”. The 40-year-old man, who has not been named, was arrested in Sheffield on Wednesday and held on suspicion of preparing to commit an

Four terrorism suspects with links to ISIS executioner Jihadi John have been awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds of British taxpayers’ money in legal aid to sue to government for slapping counter-terrorism orders on them – despite having fled the

The Director-General of MI5, Andrew Parker, has said that 10 years on from the 2005 July 7 attacks there remains a “serious societal and security challenge” in tackling home-grown Jihadi terrorism. Mark Rowley of the National Police Chiefs’ Council for

National security agency MI5 and counter terror police chiefs have met to discuss the possibility of raising the UK’s threat level to ‘critical’, meaning an attack is imminent. The revelation comes just 24-hours before the nation stops to remember the dead

A man paraded past the Houses of Parliament draped in an Islamic State flag without being arrested by police, despite the fact that support for ISIS is unlawful in the United Kingdom. He carried on his back a young girl who was waving a