Following the recent disorder in Belfast in August, assistant chief constable for local policing Bobby Singleton provided an update on the investigation. Singleton said: “Our investigation team continue to rigorously pursue those involved in the recent disorder and violence and we will be relentless in our pursuit of those who...
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The co-founder of Palestine Action has been charged with violating the Terrorism Act after a series of speeches in Manchester and Bradford. Richard Barnard stands accused of “expressing an opinion that is supportive of a proscribed organisation contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000”. Barnard, 41, will appear before the Westminster Magistrates’...
Threats from terrorist groups such as ISIS are again surging across the globe three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, an exit that marked a new phase in the war on terrorism. ISIS has claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks this year across the world, from Turkey to Iran...
American forces in Syria have captured an ISIS leader who U.S. Central Command said facilitated a recent prison break by detained foreign fighters. Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal was captured in a joint U.S.-Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) operation in the early hours of Sunday, CENTCOM said in a statement. CENTCOM linked al-Dandal to the...
The CIA says the suspects in the foiled plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna wanted to kill “a huge number” of people at the event. The intelligence provided by the agency to Austrian authorities allowed them to disrupt the plot and save “hundreds of lives” , CIA’s...
An Afghan man has appeared in a Belfast court accused of gathering information for planned acts of terrorism. Habib Shamel, 27, also allegedly had files stored on a USB stick which could have been used in any suspected plots. Mr Shamel, who is currently being held in custody at HMP...
A Pakistani judge on Monday acquitted a man who was charged with spreading misinformation that helped spark widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month, officials said. The decision came less than a week after Farhan Asif, a 32-year-old web developer, was arrested in a raid on his home in Lahore, the capital...
German authorities have identified the man who confessed to a mass knife attack as a suspected member of the Islamic State group (IS). Prosecutors named the man as Issa Al H, omitting his surname because of Germany’s privacy laws. The 26-year-old had given himself up and admitted to the stabbings,...
French police say they have arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing an explosion outside a synagogue in a southern resort. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said “the alleged perpetrator” was detained on Saturday. He added that the police had shown “great professionalism”. French media reported that the suspect...
Work to install the final set of anti-terrorism bollards in York is to start next week. The sliding bollards will be installed at the junction of High Ousegate and Piccadilly during the last phase of City of York Council’s £3.5 million scheme to protect against ‘vehicle as weapon attacks’. They will cover the junction of...
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