American forces in Syria have captured an ISIS leader who U.S. Central Command said facilitated a recent prison break by detained foreign fighters. Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal was captured in a joint U.S.-Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) operation in the early hours of Sunday, CENTCOM said in a statement. CENTCOM linked al-Dandal to the...
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The CIA says the suspects in the foiled plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna wanted to kill “a huge number” of people at the event. The intelligence provided by the agency to Austrian authorities allowed them to disrupt the plot and save “hundreds of lives” , CIA’s...
An Afghan man has appeared in a Belfast court accused of gathering information for planned acts of terrorism. Habib Shamel, 27, also allegedly had files stored on a USB stick which could have been used in any suspected plots. Mr Shamel, who is currently being held in custody at HMP...
A Pakistani judge on Monday acquitted a man who was charged with spreading misinformation that helped spark widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month, officials said. The decision came less than a week after Farhan Asif, a 32-year-old web developer, was arrested in a raid on his home in Lahore, the capital...
German authorities have identified the man who confessed to a mass knife attack as a suspected member of the Islamic State group (IS). Prosecutors named the man as Issa Al H, omitting his surname because of Germany’s privacy laws. The 26-year-old had given himself up and admitted to the stabbings,...
French police say they have arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing an explosion outside a synagogue in a southern resort. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said “the alleged perpetrator” was detained on Saturday. He added that the police had shown “great professionalism”. French media reported that the suspect...
Work to install the final set of anti-terrorism bollards in York is to start next week. The sliding bollards will be installed at the junction of High Ousegate and Piccadilly during the last phase of City of York Council’s £3.5 million scheme to protect against ‘vehicle as weapon attacks’. They will cover the junction of...
The European Union (EU) and the external affairs ministry are organising a regional conference in New Delhi to discuss emerging threats in online radicalisation and to jointly counter the exploitation of online spaces by terrorists. The Track 1.5 conference, which will be held on August 21-22 in collaboration with organising...
Two teenagers have been charged with terrorism offences after an investigation into suspected extreme right-wing activity. Rex Clark, 18, and Sofija Vinogradova, 19, are both charged with preparation of terrorist acts, the Metropolitan Police said. Vinogradova, from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, is also charged with two counts of collection of information likely to...
Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), also highlighted the danger posed by ISIL-Khorasan, the Da’esh affiliate in Afghanistan, resulting in heightened threat levels in Europe. These included the attack by the group on the Crocus City Hall near Moscow that killed over 140 concert goers and wounded more...
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