Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & trends’
Dutch police arrest 15 over ‘Islamic State’ TikTok posts
Fifteen people suspected of spreading “Islamic State” (IS) propaganda on TikTok were arrested in raids across the Netherlands by Dutch police on Tuesday. The Dutch public prosecution office said the 15 suspects were trying to “incite others to commit terrorist crimes” through IS propaganda, which included calls to join the Islamist terrorist group while glorifying…
Read MoreChristchurch shooter seeks to overturn guilty plea
A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two New Zealand mosqueshas appeared in court to try and withdraw his guilty plea. Australian Brenton Tarrant is serving a life sentence with no parole after admitting to murdering the 51 people and attempting to murder another 40 in the March 2019 attack on worshippers during Friday…
Read MoreKey participant in 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack that killed 4 Americans is in custody, Bondi says
A key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in their deaths, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday Bondi said in a news conference that Zubayr Al-Bakoush had landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland at…
Read MoreMosque in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad hit by suicide bombing, leaving dozens dead and wounded
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in a suburb of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Friday, killing at least 31 people and leaving almost 170 others wounded, a spokesman for the city government said in a message shared with journalists. A local security official said the attack came while the Shiite Muslim mosque…
Read MoreOklahoma Election Day terror plotter deemed mentally incompetent, court rules
Nasir Tawhedi, 28, an Afghan national who plotted an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack from Oklahoma City, has been found mentally incompetent to face his punishment. Tawhedi appeared in Oklahoma City federal court Feb. 4 with an interpreter for a competency review. During the 10-minute hearing, his defense attorney told the court Tawhedi agreed with the findings…
Read MoreCalgary man gets 16-year terrorism sentence for joining ISIS
A Calgary man who joined the Islamic State group in the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison. “Terrorism has been described as the most vile form of criminal conduct,” Court of King’s Bench Justice Corina Dario said as she sentenced Jamal Borhot. “The sentence must also send a clear and unmistakable…
Read MoreU.S. moving 7,000 ISIS suspects from Syria to Iraq amid concerns over security and due legal process
The U.S. military is in the process of transferring nearly 7,000 ISIS suspects from prisons and jails in northeast Syria to detention facilities across the border into Iraq. The operation comes amid concerns over security, following a mass escape from at least one prison in Syria, but it is also raising concern over the detainees’…
Read MorePakistan military says it concludes week-long fight against Baloch separatists
Pakistan’s military said on Thursday it had concluded a week-long operation against separatists in Balochistan who stormed more than a dozen locations, taking hostages, setting off explosives and waging gun battles with security forces. Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest and poorest province, was brought to a virtual standstill on Saturday when the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA)…
Read MoreHowden man sentenced for planning terrorist attack
A 21-year-old man has today (Thursday January 29, 2026) been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 16 years for planning an act of terrorism. Jordan Richardson, from Howden near Goole, was found guilty in November following a three-week trial at Leeds Crown Court. He was also found guilty of multiple offences of possessing…
Read MoreTwo Swedish citizens jailed in Denmark for grenade attack near Israeli embassy
Two Swedish citizens were jailed on Tuesday for throwing grenades at Israel’s embassy in Denmark in October 2024. A Copenhagen court sentenced an 18-year-old to 12 years in prison and a 21-year-old to 14 years after finding them guilty of terrorism and attempted murder in the incident. The court also ruled that the pair —…
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