Glasgow Airport has confirmed services are back to normal today after security was disrupted on Wednesday amid a search for a suspected terrorist. Travellers faced major disruptions yesterday afternoon as police hunted escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife. The 21-year-old has been on the run since around 7.50am yesterday after escaping from...
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An 18-year-old man who admitted possessing potential bomb-making instructions has been jailed. Mohammed Afzal, from Preston, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to collecting and disseminating terrorist material at Liverpool Crown Court. He was arrested after posting extremist material on social media but initially refused to provide passcodes for his devices to officers,...
An “extremely dangerous” prison officer who ran a far-right fitness club has been jailed for eight years for possessing a “murder manual” for white supremacists. Ashley Sharp set up the White Stag Athletic Club to create a “brotherhood” and train others to be soldiers for the racist cause, Sheffield Crown...
A BRADFORD man has appeared in court accused of a string of charges. Muhammed Saeed Ahmed, 31, was arrested in June 2021 as part of a pre-planned operation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East and was released under investigation the same day. On August 16, the defendant was charged with offences under...
A woman threatened to blow up a medical centre and a police station, telling staff: “I’m a terrorist and there is a bomb planted somewhere.” Courtney Longstaff made the hoax claims that she had planted devices, first at King’s Medical Centre in Normanton, and then at the police station in...
A man who sent hoax packages to primary schools, shopping centres and other businesses across the country containing white powder and letters telling recipients to ‘run’, has been convicted of terrorism offences. Gary Preston, 63, from Haverhill, on 11th August 2023 admitted 21 charges relating to packages sent between September...
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 passengers on board, Russia’s Civil Aviation Authority has said. There has been no comment from the Kremlin or Russia’s defence ministry as Prigozhin’s death is yet to be officially confirmed. The crash comes...
A teenage terror suspect charged with attempting to build a weapon of mass destruction was arrested at the home of a Philadelphia defense attorney who sought the Democrat nomination for a judge’s role, sources have claimed. The 17-year-old, who has not been named, was allegedly communicating with a Jordanian Islamic...
A self-described “activist” from Quebec who pleaded guilty to sending Donald Trump a poison-laced letter at the height of the former president’s ill-fated 2020 re-election effort has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison. Pascale Ferrier, 56, agreed to the 21-year, 10-month sentence as part of a plea agreement...
Turkish police nabbed 12 people over their suspected links to the Daesh terrorist group in the western city of Bursa, security sources said. Counter-terrorism units conducted simultaneous operations in the early morning hours at the addresses of the suspects. All of the suspects are foreign nationals. During the raids, a...
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