18/03/22

Police have seen a rise in lone actors carrying out attacks and more young people being drawn into terrorism over the last five years. Since the wave of terror attacks in the UK in 2017, Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said “most significantly” officers have seen a rise in .....

15/03/22

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with terrorism offences following an arrest made by the Met Police's Counter Terrorism Command. The boy was charged on 13 March with two offences under Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday. The boy was arrested and .....

14/03/22

Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief  **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to .....

09/03/22

A Saudi man accused of being the "20th hijacker" in the 9/11 attacks has been released from detention at Guantanamo Bay, the US defence department says. Mohammed al-Qahtani, 46, was repatriated to Saudi Arabia after a review board determined that he no longer posed a "significant threat". The board noted his .....

08/03/22

Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief  **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify .....

07/03/22

The US Supreme Court has re-imposed the death sentence for convicted Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing an earlier appeals court ruling to void it. Justices voted 6-3 to reject defence claims Tsarnaev's 2015 trial was conducted improperly. Three people died and 260 others were wounded in the 2013 .....

04/03/22

A 19-year-old has been arrested by counter-terrorism officers in north London. The teenager was arrested on suspicion of engaging in Islamist-related terror activities on Thursday. He was arrested as part of an investigation led by the force’s Counter Terrorism Command, the Metropolitan Police said. The man was .....

28/02/22

The telecoms company Ericsson put contractors' lives at risk by insisting they continued working in territory controlled by the Islamic State [IS] group in Iraq, according to a leaked Ericsson report seen by BBC News Arabic. This resulted in them being kidnapped by IS militants, the report finds. Ericsson is one of .....

23/02/22

A British man was one of two suspected ISIS recruits caught while trying to enter Afghanistan this month. Ken McCallum, the director general of MI5, said the service has evidence of terrorist groups regrouping in Afghanistan and recruits are travelling to join them. In September Mr McCallum said that the Taliban .....

22/02/22

Three convicted terrorists, including Hashem Abedi who is serving life for 22 murders in the Manchester Arena bombing, have been found guilty of a "vicious attack" on a prison officer. Paul Edwards, 57, was attacked in his office in the high security unit of Belmarsh Prison in May 2020. Abedi, with Ahmed Hassan and .....