A 16-year-old boy from the Isle of Wight has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences this morning (Wednesday). Detectives and other specialist officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), supported by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, descended on a property in the West Wight earlier today. They...
Monthly Archives: July 2023
The counter-terrorism center of the state security service arrested two citizens of Georgia for ties to the Islamic State. “The security service carried out a special operation simultaneously in two regions of Georgia. During the searches, electronic media, symbols of a terrorist organization, ammunition and explosive devices were seized,” the...
A former British rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer ‘Jihadi’ John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and...
Arrests made during anti-terror operations across Ankara, Mersin, and Aydin. Turkish police have arrested 11 people over their suspected links to the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, security sources said on Wednesday. Police teams conducted simultaneous anti-terror operations in the capital Ankara to arrest 10 foreign nationals over their suspected links...
A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city’s airport and a metro station in March 2016. After a long trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels returned their...
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with three terror offences, the Metropolitan Police said. He is accused of membership of a proscribed organisation, addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation and directing a terrorist organisation, contrary to section 56 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The 56-year-old was...
A North London schoolboy who started a bomb scare at the O2, writing ‘kill yourself you stupid white filth’ and ‘Long live Al Qaeda’ to the Metropolitan Police, has been spared jail. University student Faress Mezine, 18, of Exchange Close in New Southgate, was labelled ‘immature’ and an ‘idiot’ by his...
A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city opened the Fifa Women’s World Cup. Six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in...
The country’s largest police department has its first female intelligence and counterterrorism chief. New York City officials announced Tuesday that Rebecca Weiner will replace John Miller as the police department’s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism. Weiner has a long track record of investigating right-wing extremism, the Islamic State terrorist...
The risk of a terror attack in the UK is rising with domestic plotters harder to detect, a persistent threat from Islamist extremists and advances in technology being exploited, a report has found. The Home Office counter-terrorism strategy Contest has been updated for the first time in five years. Since it was last updated...
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