The United States has delivered a fresh consignment of military supplies to Nigerian security forces in a move officials say will bolster ongoing operations against terrorist and violent extremist groups across the country. The delivery was confirmed on Tuesday by the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) on its official...
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A man from Worcester is to appear at court after being charged with terrorism offences. Wayne Munden was arrested in connection with the publication, and sharing, of material between January 2023 and May 2024. The 59-year-old has now been charged with eight offences, which relate to stirring up racial hatred,...
A 25-year-old man has admitted to the attempted murder of an army officer outside his barracks in Kent. Anthony Esan pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton, who was stabbed “repeatedly” in Sally Port Gardens near Brompton Barracks in Chatham on 23 July 2024. He appeared at Maidstone Crown Court via video-link...
Two men have been found guilty of planning an Islamic State-inspired gun terror attack on a mass gathering of Jews in Manchester. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, had a ‘visceral dislike’ of Jewish people and wanted to cause ‘untold harm’, but the plot was discovered as they unknowingly...
Naveed Akram, the surviving suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act, according to the New South Wales Police. His father Sajid Akram, 50, was killed in an exchange...
A suspected New Year’s Eve terror plot by an extremist group has been foiled by federal authorities in Los Angeles, officials say. Four alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front – an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian anti-government group – have been arrested on suspicion of planning a coordinated bombing...
A US Army sniper who was taken into custody in connection with the Brown University mass shooting has been released. Benjamin Erickson, originally from Wisconsin, was apprehended in connection with the Saturday shooting that left at least two dead and nine injured, according to the Washington Post. He...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country’s gun laws after a shooting targeting the Jewish community at a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Police had earlier said that the gunmen behind the attack were father and son. They did not name the two. The older...
The UK and Norway have signed a defence pact that will see them operate a combined fleet to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic. The deal is designed to protect undersea cables – which British officials say are increasingly under threat from Moscow – with a 30% rise in...
Vladimir Putin is “morally responsible” for the death of a British woman killed after she sprayed herself with a nerve agent smuggled into the UK by Russian agents to assassinate a former spy, an inquiry has concluded. Lord Hughes, the chair of the inquiry, said the assassination attempt on the former spy Sergei...
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