07/08/23

Teenager, from West Midlands charged with terrorism offences

COUNTER-TERRORISM officers have charged a teenager in the West Midlands as part of a continuing investigation. Amir El-Harith, aged 18, from Smethwick, was arrested on Wednesday August 3 on suspicion of terrorism offences. He has now been charged with three offences of distributing terrorist .....

07/08/23

Terrorism: What's behind surge in arrests of under-18s?

Record numbers of young people are being arrested for terrorism-related offences. And their journey into extremism tends to start online. Jon started going down the rabbit hole when he saw a social media post. He was at school when a friend showed him something about British soldiers living on the streets. It .....

07/08/23

Man from Weston-super-Mare charged with terrorism offences

A man from Somerset has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Gabrielle Budasz, 23, has been charged with collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism at Westminster Magistrates court on Saturday. Counter Terrorism Policing South East said .....

02/08/23

East Belfast: Pipe bomb explodes in residential area

A pipe bomb exploded in a residential area of east Belfast on Tuesday night, police have confirmed. Residents were evacuated from their homes in the area of Hyndford Street off the Beersbridge Road. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have said that officers discovered what they described as a "crude pipe .....

27/07/23

COUNTER TERRORISM POLICE ARREST 16-YEAR-OLD BOY ON SUSPICION OF TERROR OFFENCES

A 16-year-old boy from the Isle of Wight has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences this morning (Wednesday). Detectives and other specialist officers from Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), supported by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, descended on a property in the West Wight earlier .....

27/07/23

Two Georgian citizens arrested for links with ISIS - security service

The counter-terrorism center of the state security service arrested two citizens of Georgia for ties to the Islamic State. “The security service carried out a special operation simultaneously in two regions of Georgia. During the searches, electronic media, symbols of a terrorist organization, ammunition and .....

27/07/23

British rapper-turned Jihadi Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, who was long thought to be one of the ISIS Beatles is found dead in his Spanish prison cell while awaiting a verdict on terror charges

A former British rapper once believed to be the ISIS killer 'Jihadi' John has been found dead in his prison cell in Spain. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 32, had been tried earlier this month at a court in Madrid on suspicion of heading an itinerant jihadist cell he allegedly formed after leaving Syria, and .....

26/07/23

Police arrest 11 Daesh/ISIS terror suspects in Türkiye

Arrests made during anti-terror operations across Ankara, Mersin, and Aydin.Turkish police have arrested 11 people over their suspected links to the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, security sources said on Wednesday. Police teams conducted simultaneous anti-terror operations in the capital Ankara to arrest 10 foreign .....

26/07/23

Brussels bombers found guilty after long murder trial

A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, more than seven years after suicide bomb attacks killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station in March 2016. After a long trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels returned their verdicts. Several of those on trial .....

24/07/23

Anjem Choudary charged with three terror offences

Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with three terror offences, the Metropolitan Police said. He is accused of membership of a proscribed organisation, addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation and directing a terrorist organisation, contrary to section 56 of the Terrorism Act .....