The former head of counter-terrorism in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Sir Ivor Roberts has suggested that new policies are needed by MI5 in order to stop terrorists ‘slipping through the net’. Sir Ivor referred to the case of Malik Faisal Akram, originally from Blackburn, who carried out an attack...
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Open Source Media is reporting that there is a possible active shooter situation at the St. Francis Hospital located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Police are on the scene and reporting that the shooter has been shot and is down. There are reports of multiple injuries however the extent of the...
A former Irish Defence Forces soldier has been found guilty of Islamic State (IS) membership. Lisa Smith, 40, had pleaded not guilty to being a member of the group between 28 October 2015 and 1 December 2019. Smith was, however, found not guilty of financing terrorism by sending money to...
An Islamic State sympathiser planned to murder former US President George W Bush but the plot was discovered by the FBI, US authorities have revealed. The suspect, a resident of Ohio, allegedly sought to have Iraqi operatives smuggled into the US from Mexico for the operation. He is now in...
Texas shooting: 19 children among dead in primary school attack. Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas. The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School – which teaches children aged seven to 10 – in the city of Uvalde...
A GP accused of running a terrorist group could face torture and execution if he is extradited to India, a court has heard. Dr Mukul Hazarika, of the Queenstree practice in Billingham, Teesside, is allegedly chairman of a group linked to bombings in a bid to win independence for the...
Ten dead in racially motivated attack at New York state store. An 18-year-old white man has shot dead 10 people in a black neighbourhood of New York state in what authorities are calling a racially motivated attack. The man, named as Payton Gendron in court papers, was arrested after a...
5 People have been shot and 13 injured in a shooting during morning rush hour at a New York subway station. According to police, shots were fired at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park at 08:30hrs local time. The suspected gunman, described as wearing an orange construction vest and...
An Islamic State fanatic has been found guilty of murdering Sir David Amess MP. The Southend West MP was stabbed more than 20 times during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021. A jury at the Old Bailey took just 18 minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali...
PARIS, April 8 (Reuters) – Police forces were hunting for a man who left a parcel bomb in the Cathedral of Toulouse, Southwestern France, on Friday, ahead of the first round of voting in France’s presidential race on April 10, police said. The man deposited the parcel around 0700 GMT...
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