19/07/23

The country’s largest police department has its first female intelligence and counterterrorism chief. New York City officials announced Tuesday that Rebecca Weiner will replace John Miller as the police department’s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism.  Weiner has a long track record of .....

18/07/23

The risk of a terror attack in the UK is rising with domestic plotters harder to detect, a persistent threat from Islamist extremists and advances in technology being exploited, a report has found. The Home Office counter-terrorism strategy Contest has been updated for the first time in five years. .....

18/07/23

Davin Daniel Meyer, 18, of Castle Rock is charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and made his initial appearance in federal court today. According to court documents, Meyer was arrested on Friday, July 14, as he attempted to board an international flight at .....

17/07/23

A terror suspect accused of plotting to blow up hotels in Kenya with ‘White Widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite is set to be deported back to Britain within days. Jermaine Grant, 40, faces removal from Kenya after serving nine years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials and forging immigration papers. It raises .....

14/07/23

ISLAMABAD, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Police in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi arrested a high-profile terrorist on Thursday, an official statement said. The terrorist, who belonged to the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was arrested by the counter-terrorism department (CTD) of the police on .....

14/07/23

Emergency services across South Wales have been testing their preparedness for terrorism incidents this week, taking part in a live-play exercise in collaboration with Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP). The exercise focused on a scenario involving a terrorist attack at a music event at Newport International Sports .....

14/07/23

A British terrorist who travelled to Syria intending on ‘martyrdom on the battlefield’ has been released from a UK jail after just nine years behind bars. Yusuf Zubair Sarwar and his childhood friend Mohammed Nahin Ahmed were both jailed in 2014 and branded ‘dangerous’ by the trial judge after .....

14/07/23

Detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands CTP arrested two men yesterday (Wednesday, July 12) on suspicion of terrorism. The men – aged 18 and 22 and from Birmingham and West Bromwich respectively – were detained in connection with disseminating terrorism material and  .....

14/07/23

Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, 26, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court documents, Al-Azhari pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2023. .....

13/07/23

A Youtuber has been remanded in custody and is facing a lengthy jail term after claiming he had a bomb at an airport. Online prankster Garard Ndela was arrested just minutes after turning up at Newcastle Airport on Monday, July 3. The 19-year-old was recording himself in the terminal building walking past .....