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...
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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...
Davin Daniel Meyer, 18, of Castle Rock is charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and made his initial appearance in federal court today. According to court documents, Meyer was arrested on Friday, July 14, as he attempted to board an international flight at...
A terror suspect accused of plotting to blow up hotels in Kenya with ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite is set to be deported back to Britain within days. Jermaine Grant, 40, faces removal from Kenya after serving nine years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials and forging immigration papers. It raises...
ISLAMABAD, July 14 (Xinhua) — Police in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi arrested a high-profile terrorist on Thursday, an official statement said. The terrorist, who belonged to the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was arrested by the counter-terrorism department (CTD) of the police on Thursday, the statement released by...
Emergency services across South Wales have been testing their preparedness for terrorism incidents this week, taking part in a live-play exercise in collaboration with Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP). The exercise focused on a scenario involving a terrorist attack at a music event at Newport International Sports Village. The multi-agency exercise involved:...
A British terrorist who travelled to Syria intending on ‘martyrdom on the battlefield’ has been released from a UK jail after just nine years behind bars. Yusuf Zubair Sarwar and his childhood friend Mohammed Nahin Ahmed were both jailed in 2014 and branded ‘dangerous’ by the trial judge after pleading guilty of...
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