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Germany Carries Out Raids And Bans A Group Accused Of Links To Iran And Support For Hezbollah
The German government on Wednesday banned an organization accused of being an “outpost” of Iran’s theocracy, promoting the ideology of its leadership and supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Police raided 53 properties around the country, including a prominent mosque in Hamburg. The ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, and five suborganizations around Germany…
Read MoreFrench police arrest Russian suspected of plotting Paris Olympics ‘destabilisation’
French police on Tuesday arrested a Russian man suspected of plotting acts of “destabilisation” during the Paris Olympics, prosecutors said. The man, born in 1984, was held in custody and placed under judicial investigation on suspicion of “organising events likely to lead to destabilisation during the Olympic Games”, a source in the state prosecution service,…
Read MoreSuspected Gunman In Croatia Nursing Home Killings Charged On 11 Counts, Including Murder
A suspected gunman in a mass shooting at a nursing home in Croatia is facing 11 criminal charges, including murder, after he was accused of killing six people, including his own mother, and wounding as many more, police said on Tuesday. The carnage stunned Daruvar, a spa town of some 8,500 people in central Croatia…
Read More3 Army Reserve Officers Disciplined After Reservist Killed 18 People Last October In Maine
Three Army Reserve officers were disciplined for dereliction of duty in the aftermath of a rampage in which a reservist killed 18 people in Maine, according to an Army report that cited communication failures within the chain of command, and between military and civilian hospitals, among other shortcomings revealed during an investigation. The Army review,…
Read MoreFrance probed migrant communities to fight ISIS-K threat to Olympics
French security services have been probing migrant communities from former Soviet republics in an effort to safeguard the Olympics from the ISIS-K militant group, the interior minister said, confirming a Reuters report published last week. Gérald Darmanin, interviewed in a Le Parisien article published on Tuesday, said ISIS-K was “undoubtedly the most dangerous movement”, though…
Read MoreRadical UK Islamist preacher Choudary convicted of terrorism offences
British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, whose followers have been linked to numerous plots around the world, has been convicted of terrorism offences after a trial in London, the capital’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday. Prosecutors said the 57-year-old Choudary directed al-Muhajiroun, which was banned as a terrorist organisation more than a decade ago, and…
Read MoreCanadian attempts knife attack on Israel security unit, is shot dead, authorities say
A Canadian citizen attempted to attack an armed civilian security unit with a knife in southern Israel near the Gaza border and was shot dead, Israeli authorities said on Monday. The incident took place at the entrance of Netiv HaAsara, a town where security has been intensified since Hamas-led militants killed around 20 people there…
Read MoreUK Man with Nazi views encouraged terrorism, trial told
An alleged far-right extremist talked online about making firearms with 3D printers and buying materials for them from Tesco, a court was told. Gabriel Budasz, 24, born in Poland but resides in Weston-super-Mare, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of posting bomb-making tutorials online and encouraging terrorism. Prosecutor Maryam Syed KC said Mr…
Read MoreRed Sea tensions reach new high as US weighs terrorist designation for Houthis
Israel and Houthis in Yemen have traded fire for the first time, escalating tensions nine months after commercial ships in the Red Sea started to come under threat from the rebel group — in a waterway the U.S. Navy has been patrolling since the war in Gaza began. Israel’s strike on Yemen’s port of Hodeidah…
Read MoreUN envoy warns that threat of terrorism is `resurging’ with attacks by Islamic State extremists
The top U.N. envoy for Syria told the Security Council on Monday that the threat of terrorism is “resurging” with attacks by Islamic State extremists set to double this year, endangering civilians already facing a “protracted state of displacement and dire humanitarian conditions.” U.N. Special Envoy Geir Pedersen said Syria is “riddled with armed actors,…
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