WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) – An alleged member of a group of Islamic State militants that beheaded American hostages in Iraq and Syria, nicknamed “The Beatles” for their British accents, faces a U.S. criminal trial beginning on Tuesday. El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, will stand trial in federal court in Alexandria,...
Monthly Archives: March 2022
Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify the information found in open source documents on...
BRUSSELS — A car slammed at high speed into Carnival revelers in a small town in southern Belgium early Sunday, killing six people and leaving 10 more with life-threatening injuries, authorities said, adding many others were lightly injured. “What should have been a great party turned into a tragedy,” said...
Police have seen a rise in lone actors carrying out attacks and more young people being drawn into terrorism over the last five years. Since the wave of terror attacks in the UK in 2017, Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said “most significantly” officers have seen...
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with terrorism offences following an arrest made by the Met Police’s Counter Terrorism Command. The boy was charged on 13 March with two offences under Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The...
Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify the information found in open source documents on...
A Saudi man accused of being the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks has been released from detention at Guantanamo Bay, the US defence department says. Mohammed al-Qahtani, 46, was repatriated to Saudi Arabia after a review board determined that he no longer posed a “significant threat”. The board noted...
Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify the information found in open source documents on...
The US Supreme Court has re-imposed the death sentence for convicted Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing an earlier appeals court ruling to void it. Justices voted 6-3 to reject defence claims Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial was conducted improperly. Three people died and 260 others were wounded in the 2013 bombing,...
A 19-year-old has been arrested by counter-terrorism officers in north London. The teenager was arrested on suspicion of engaging in Islamist-related terror activities on Thursday. He was arrested as part of an investigation led by the force’s Counter Terrorism Command, the Metropolitan Police said. The man was detained under Section...
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