A multi-agency police inquiry has investigated what appear to have been preparations for a terrorist attack in Scotland. Brief details of the case have been revealed in a report from the National Crime Agency (NCA). The NCA said a counter terrorism investigation titled Operation Ferulic was led by Police Scotland...
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A man has been charged with assisting Russian intelligence after being arrested by UK counter-terror police. Howard Michael Phillips, 64, from Harlow in Essex, was arrested in central London and is due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday afternoon. Investigators have also searched addresses in Hertfordshire and Essex. There is...
A former Royal Marine charged with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service has been found dead, police have said. Matthew Trickett, 37, a Home Office immigration officer, appeared in court charged under the National Security Act last week. He was found by a member of the public in a park...
Authorities in Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, have outlawed a Palestinian organization that promotes Hamas and calls for the eradication of Israel on Thursday. Police and investigators from the state’s security service stormed four properties linked to the association Palestine Solidarity Duisburg in the early morning hours on Thursday....
An Afghan man who worked for the UK government has lost a bid to regain British citizenship removed after he was exposed as a Russian agent. The ‘highly intelligent, quick-witted and cunning’ man, known only as C2, was headhunted by the Home Office in 2006, having sought asylum here in 2000. His skills as...
A terrorist who murdered a 70 year old man and attempted to murder a second person has today (Friday, May 17) been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 44 years and 152 days. Ahmed Ali Alid (01/01/79) of Wharton Terrace was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court after...
AKIPRESS.COM – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov, who is in Uzbekistan to participate in the first meeting of the Regional Expert Council on Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Returnees, on May 15, UzA reported. The parties discussed issues of further developing...
Jean-Louis Bourlange, Head of the French Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has written a letter to the French leadership calling on them to abandon the restriction put on Ukraine with striking Russian territory with French weapons. Bourlange wrote to the French leadership to refrain from further “restraint and make a decision” following the...
A man who stabbed a stranger to death in an attack described by a judge as a terrorist act has been jailed for life. Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, roamed the streets in Hartlepool looking for a victim to attack in “revenge” for the Israel-Hamas conflict in October. He...
Detective tells Melbourne court he believes accused terrorist Neil Prakash no longer holds extremist views after experiencing the conditions in Syria. One of Australia’s most notorious alleged terrorists no longer holds his extremist views, according to the investigator leading the federal police probe into him. Neil Christopher Prakash is facing...
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