13/12/22

Recent arrest statistics have shown an increase in teens arrested for terrorism-related offences. The Home Office recently released statistics detailing the police's use of powers under the Terrorism Act 2000. The statistics show that there were 190 counter terrorism arrests in the year to September. Children .....

13/12/22

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced £725,000 of funding for grassroots community groups to empower them to counter extremism, tackle the rise in hate crime offences and keep Londoners vulnerable to radicalisation safe. The funding comes from a fund of £2 million to support grassroots community groups to .....

08/12/22

After the deadly bombings on two Bali nightclubs in 2002, some survivors say they got a "life sentence". "My life changed forever," Andrew Csabi told the BBC. On Wednesday, the man who crafted the bombs that killed Mr Csabi's friends and left him a double amputee was freed from an Indonesian prison. Indonesia .....

01/12/22

An employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid has been lightly injured while opening a letter bomb, Ukrainian and Spanish officials say. The male employee was taken to hospital for treatment but "his life is not in danger", said Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko. He added that Ukrainian .....

28/11/22

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 hearing multiple explosions and .....

21/11/22

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 .....

14/11/22

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, Turkey’s .....

08/11/22

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 his white Seat .....

05/11/22

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 .....

03/11/22

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 .....