The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killing of three women working for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday. The attacks in Jalalabad are the latest in a spike of targeted killings that have seen judges, journalists and other professionals ambushed by gunmen or killed by car bombs. The … Read more
Shamima Begum will find out if she can potentially return to the UK to pursue an appeal against the removal of her British citizenship when the Supreme Court rules on her case. Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in … Read more
Islamic State’s de facto leader in Germany has been jailed for ten years and six months for funding terrorism and radicalising youngsters in the country’s mosques. A German court sentenced 37-year-old Iraqi Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah Abdullah, better known as Abu Walaa, who was accused of directing a jihadist network radicalising young people in Europe and … Read more
David Cameron and Tony Blair want new law to ban ‘glorifying terrorism’ in bid to target Islamist extremists and far-Right groups A report is calling for a new law against glorifying terrorism to tackle extremism Calls for a shake-up to thwart ‘dangerous’ behaviour by far-Right groups The proposals could lead to the outlawing of groups … Read more
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has accused Australia of shirking its responsibilities after cancelling the citizenship of a dual-national ISIS bride caught fleeing Syria this week. Ms Ardern fumed that Australian counterpart Scott Morrison had left her to ‘shoulder the responsibility’ of dealing with 26-year-old Suhayra Aden and her two children, despite the fact … Read more
Sahayb Abu (pictured), 27, allegedly wrote knives do not do ‘much damage’ A rapping jihadi accused of plotting an attack during the coronavirus pandemic chatted to an undercover police officer on a Telegram group, a court has heard. Unemployed Sahayb Abu, 27, allegedly wrote knives do not do ‘much damage’ on the chat group after … Read more
Syria’s government says it has found the remains of an 82-year-old archaeologist who was beheaded by ISIS in 2015 while trying to protect some of Syria’s ancient treasures from the jihadists. Khaled Asaad’s body was one of three corpses found near the ancient city of Palmyra, according to official media, four years after it was … Read more
It was a place where thousands were imprisoned, tortured and executed. And new photos show inside Raqqa’s Al-Shabab Sports Club stadium that was turned into an ISIS death prison show nooses still hanging from the ceilings and bloody hand prints smeared on the walls. The abandoned execution centre is located in the lower level of … Read more
Is ISIS making a comeback? Bus massacre in Syria that killed nearly 40 soldiers sparks fears of a resurgence of terror group Islamic State claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack that killed nearly 40 Regime soldiers were attacked as they travelled home for holidays in Deir Ezzor Observatory head said it was ‘one of the … Read more
British-born Jihadi bride, 25, who lost an arm in a Syrian airstrike calls the children killed in the Manchester bombing ‘victims of war’ Samia Hussein, 25, who joined Islamic State in 2015, was smuggled from Syria She was allowed to fly into Heathrow via Turkey in February and was detained Hussein refused to condemn the … Read more