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...
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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,...
Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), who have been working with Kent Police since the initial notification of this incident, have recovered evidence that indicates the attack at an immigration centre in Dover on Sunday 30 October 2022, was motivated by a terrorist ideology. During the attack, a number of...
A US woman who admitted leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group (IS) has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old from Kansas, committed terrorist acts in Iraq, Syria and Libya over an eight-year period. She also admitted to giving military training to more...
Counter-terrorism police have taken on the investigation into a firebomb attack at a Dover immigration centre. Two or three devices – described as petrol bombs by a witness – were thrown by a man later found dead at a nearby petrol station on Sunday. Police who identified the man as...
he US and the UK have issued a stark warning over the risk of terror attacks in Nigeria, with the US embassy in Abuja telling people to “avoid all non-essential travel or movement”. The US embassy said there was a long list of potential targets, including: “Government buildings, places of...
Abdussalam Adina-Zada, a former University of Western Australia researcher, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for advocating terrorism via YouTube videos where he praised the virtues of violence and martyrdom. A self-styled future political leader of Tajikistan, Adina-Zada has been in prison since his arrest in December 2020. In his...
Sabbir Miah of east London has been convicted of posting a Daesh propaganda video on social media. Miah posted the video to hundreds of people on a private group on 14 June 2021. The video reportedly glorified people who were members of, and fought for Daesh. The conviction follows an...
A man who threw firebombs at an immigration processing centre in Dover died of asphyxiation, an inquest has been told. Andrew Leak, 66, from High Wycombe, threw up to three incendiary devices at the site on 30 October. He was found dead at a nearby petrol station in the driver’s seat of...
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