19/07/22

A German soldier has been jailed for plotting a right-wing attack on senior politicians whilst posing as a Syrian refugee. Franco Albrecht has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison. The presiding judge said he planned "a serious act of violence endangering the state". The defendant had been in the dock .....

19/07/22

Hamdi Alqudsi, who is accused of leading a "terrorist group" called the Shura, has gone on trial in Sydney, Australia. Alqudsi is accused of leading a "terrorist group" called the Shura, which allegedly planned to attack Sydney's naval base, a courthouse, the Mardi Gras parade and the Israeli embassy. He is also .....

05/07/22

Australia has updated its travel advice for Australians travelling to the UK due to the threat of terrorism. On the SmartTraveller website, Australians are advised to "exercise a high degree of caution in the UK". It has changed the warning level from green to yellow, saying: "The UK Government's threat level is .....

05/07/22

US police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed in a mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Robert E Crimo III, 22, was detained after a brief chase, police said. The gunman climbed on to a roof, shooting randomly at spectators using a high-powered rifle. It is the .....

25/06/22

A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting in the centre of Norway's capital, Oslo. Two people were killed and 21 injured in the overnight attack on a busy nightlife district. There was gunfire at about 01:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Saturday, in .....

10/06/22

Addressing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact in New York on Wednesday, Secretary-General António Guterres has warned of the growing terrorism risk to Afica. “Groups like Al-Qaida, Da’esh and their affiliates are continuing to grow in the Sahel and make inroads into Central and Southern Africa. .....

10/06/22

Counter Terrorism officers say an upward trend in youth arrests is of 'real concern’ as figures reveal that more under 18’s were arrested in the year to March 2022 than any other annual period. The latest Home Office figures relating to the police’s use of powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 show that there were .....

08/06/22

At least one person has died and several others injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in western Berlin, police say. A man believed to be the driver of the vehicle has been detained, they added. It is unclear whether the incident was the result of an accident or whether the driver had intentionally driven into .....

07/06/22

The former head of counter-terrorism in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Sir Ivor Roberts has suggested that new policies are needed by MI5 in order to stop terrorists 'slipping through the net'. Sir Ivor referred to the case of Malik Faisal Akram, originally from Blackburn, who carried out an attack on a Texas .....

07/06/22

Psychologists and behavioural scientists should be deployed more frequently to counter-terrorism operations as the number of neurodivergent individuals under investigation rises, a watchdog has advised. The government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation told the Observer that evaluating the threat from .....