GMU student linked to pro-ISIS accounts barred from campus after FBI uncovers attack plot

A freshman at George Mason University (GMU) has been banned from campus after allegations of operating pro-ISIS and al-Qaeda social media accounts, officials said Thursday. Court documents reveal that Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, 18, an Egyptian national living in Falls Church, Virginia, operated multiple accounts on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Telegram. These accounts…

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Five Eyes chiefs issue stark warning over online terror radicalisation of children

Five Eyes security chiefs have issued an unprecedented warning about terrorist radicalisation of children online. For the first time since its inception during the Second World War, the Five Eyes alliance of Britain, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has published a public-facing paper calling for a “whole society response” to the threat of…

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Defence for alleged terror propagandist calls prosecution speculative, tenuous

The defence team for an alleged terror propagandist argued Tuesday that the Crown’s case is built on shaky ground, with tenuous links between the accused’s camera and racist videos found online, and shoddy testimony from a Crown expert on right-wing extremism. Patrick Gordon Macdonald, 27, is charged with participating in the terrorist activity of Atomwaffen…

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Dual U.S. and Albanian Citizen Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS and Distributing Instructions Regarding Homemade Explosives

A former New York man and dual citizen of the United States and Albania was arrested yesterday in New York on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and distributing instructional information regarding the making of explosives. According to court…

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ISIS-K threat grows as it targets disaffected Muslims with sophisticated propaganda

The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has ramped up its recruitment efforts in the past year, American officials and analysts say, rolling out a sophisticated propaganda campaign designed to persuade disaffected Muslims to carry out terrorist plots in the U.S. and other Western countries. The recent arrest of an Afghan accused of plotting an Election…

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United States and Canada Target Key International Fundraiser for Foreign Terrorist Organization PFLP

Today, in a joint action with Canada, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or “Samidoun,” a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. The PFLP, which was designated as…

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Marine Corps requires immediate reporting of extremism, gang activity

When U.S. Marine commanders hear about instances of extremism or gang activity in their ranks, they’re now required to call Marine Corps headquarters to report the allegations within 30 minutes of learning about them. The new rule is part of a step-by-step guide for reporting extremism and gang activity released by the Marine Corps at…

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Uruguayan authorities arrest 14-year-old terrorism suspect

A Uruguayan 14-year-old student who spoke fluent Arabic and whose dangerousness had been tipped to local authorities by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Israeli Secret Service (Mossad) has been arrested in the rural town of Lascano in the southeastern department (province) of Rocha. At the time of his detention last Friday,…

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