A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting an “Islamist-motivated” attack. The man had been plotting to use cyanide and ricin to commit a “serious act of violence”, North Rhine-Westphalia police said in a statement. They raided the man’s Castrop-Rauxel residence, in the Ruhr region, but prosecutors...
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A man has been jailed for 12 years for sending Covid relief grants he received from a London council to fund so-called Islamic State terrorists in Syria. Barber shop owner Tarek Namouz, 43, was given thousands of pounds of bounce back loans which he transferred abroad. Kingston Crown Court heard...
A gunman has opened fire in central Paris, killing three people and wounding four others. Witnesses said the attacker targeted a Kurdish community centre and restaurant and prosecutors said they would look into a possible racist motive. A suspect aged 69 was quickly arrested and it soon emerged he was...
Recent arrest statistics have shown an increase in teens arrested for terrorism-related offences. The Home Office recently released statistics detailing the police’s use of powers under the Terrorism Act 2000. The statistics show that there were 190 counter terrorism arrests in the year to September. Children under 18 accounted for...
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced £725,000 of funding for grassroots community groups to empower them to counter extremism, tackle the rise in hate crime offences and keep Londoners vulnerable to radicalisation safe. The funding comes from a fund of £2 million to support grassroots community groups to...
After the deadly bombings on two Bali nightclubs in 2002, some survivors say they got a “life sentence”. “My life changed forever,” Andrew Csabi told the BBC. On Wednesday, the man who crafted the bombs that killed Mr Csabi’s friends and left him a double amputee was freed from an...
An employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid has been lightly injured while opening a letter bomb, Ukrainian and Spanish officials say. The male employee was taken to hospital for treatment but “his life is not in danger”, said Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko. He added that Ukrainian embassies...
Somali forces are battling to regain control of a hotel seized by militants in the centre of the capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday evening. At least four people have been killed and dozens more injured in the siege which has lasted more than 12 hours. Witnesses have told the BBC of...
Police have seized eight handguns and three pipe bombs after a pre-planned operation targeting the East Belfast UVF on Friday night. Searches took place in the lower Newtownards Road area, with two security alerts being declared after suspicious objects were discovered. The operation went on into the early hours of Saturday morning....
Turkey’s interior minister says police have detained a suspect who is believed to have planted the bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul. ISTANBUL — Police have detained a suspect who is believed to have planted the bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul,...
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