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Monthly Archives: January 2024

Videos of antisemitic speeches by Iranian generals, given to UK students, are being investigated by the Charity Commission. The regulator is also looking at footage of “death to Israel” chants at an Islamic charity’s UK premises. Verified by the BBC, two of the videos show talks by members of Iran’s Islamic...

Washington — The Biden administration on Wednesday declared Yemen’s Houthi rebels to be a “specially designated global terrorist group,” or SDGT, a move that comes amid the militia’s continuing attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The move, announced by the State Department and the White House, reverses part of an earlier decision by...

“Welcome back to Kyrgyzstan,” says Shukur Shermatov, addressing a class of 20 women. He is wearing a traditional felt cap, but there is nothing traditional about this school. It sits inside two rings of military security and the students are women who have been brought home from camps in Syria,...

One person has died and at least 12 people have been injured in a terror attack in central Israel, according to emergency services. Israeli police said two people driving vehicles ran over several people in the city of Ra’anana, to the north of Tel Aviv. Police described the incident as...

Two men, 40-year-old Christopher Gibbons and 36-year-old Tyrone Patten-Walsh were both jailed following an investigation by London’s Metropolitan Police, the police announced on Thursday The pair had been investigated by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command after their podcast was found to encourage listeners to commit violent acts against Jews and other ethnic...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu intends to refile a rejected $13.3 million federal counter-terrorism grant at the Jan. 24 City Council meeting, but it may be discussed among the nine affected communities at a separate meeting this week. A Wu spokesperson said the mayor will be refiling the U.S. Department of...

The UK should “urgently consider” new laws to stop AI recruiting terrorists, a counter-extremism think tank says. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) says there is a “clear need for legislation to keep up” with online terrorist threats. It comes after the UK’s independent terror legislation reviewer was “recruited” by...

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