The home secretary has rejected calls from the family of MP Sir David Amess for a public inquiry into his murder. In a letter addressed to Lady Julia Amess and Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said it was “hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond”...
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A caravan found packed with explosives in outer Sydney earlier this year was part of a “fabricated terrorism plot” concocted by criminals, Australian police have said. The caravan, which was found in northwestern Sydney on 19 January, contained enough explosives to produce a 40m-wide blast, along with a note...
An alleged key figure in the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing targeting U.S. soldiers at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan appeared in federal court in Virginia following his extradition to the U.S. Mohammad Sharifullah, described by the Department of Justice as an ISIS-K operative, made a brief first appearance...
Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan was arrested yesterday and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. As alleged in the criminal complaint, in December 2024, Hassan attempted to travel from Minnesota to Somalia to join ISIS on two occasions, neither of which were...
A 25 year old man from Humberside has today (February 27, 2025) been convicted of encouraging terrorism and sharing terrorist material, following a two week trial at Sheffield Crown Court. Muhammed Mahfuz AHMED (02/03/1999), of Crowhill Avenue in Cleethorpes, was found guilty of one offence of Encouraging Terrorism, contrary...
The Crime and Policing Bill is to be introduced in parliament today in the first step to becoming law, and includes measures that address the most harmful crimes impacting society today, like terrorism, cybercrime, knife crime, and violence against women and girls. Among many new rules, the Bill will...
A homegrown terrorist who planned to shoot a Christian preacher in London’s Hyde Park has had an appeal against his sentence dismissed at the Court of Appeal. Edward Little was jailed for planning to attack preacher Hatun Tash, who regularly appeared at Speaker’s Corner, but was arrested on his way to...
Authorities in Texas said on Monday that they have thwarted a “mass casualty attack” after arresting a suspect who allegedly made terroristic threats against police officers. Seth “Andrea” Gregori was arrested on a terroristic threats warrant Monday morning, the Corpus Christi Police Department said. “The Federal Bureau of...
A teenager’s plan to carry out a school shooting after killing three members of his family was “extremely shocking, distressing and upsetting”, a council leader said. Nicholas Prosper shot dead his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, his brother Kyle, 16, and 13-year-old sister Giselle at their home in Luton in...
A suspected terrorist wanted by the FBI for more than 20 years who was found in north Wales is to fight extradition to the United States later this year. Daniel Andreas San Diego was one of the agency’s “most wanted fugitives” after bombings in San Francisco, California, in 2003. ...
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