Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & trends’
Man with al-Qaeda ties who threatened to bomb subway pleads guilty in Montreal
The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaeda training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit. Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a Passport Canada office from detention and threatening to blow it up. A joint statement of facts tabled…
Read MoreDual Iranian-Iraqi National Indicted For Providing Material Support To Terrorist Organizations
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Patel, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., and Assistant Director in Charge of the…
Read MoreAustrian Man Convicted of Planning Attack at Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna
A 21-year-old man was convicted on Thursday by an Austrian jury of planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna two years ago. He was also found guilty of several terrorism charges in a separate case for planning to participate in coordinated attacks in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in…
Read MoreAustralian woman held in custody on charges of traveling to Syria to join Islamic State group
An Australian mother of four was held in custody after she appeared in a court on Thursday charged with traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State group. Rayann El Houli, 34, was arrested at her Melbourne home eight months after she returned to Australia via Lebanon with her children and another woman, police and…
Read MoreSuicide bombing in embattled Pakistan province kills 24, injures dozens more
An apparent car bombing rocked Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta on Sunday morning, killing at least 24 people and injuring around 70 more, according to officials. A high-ranking Balochistan provincial officer told CBS News that the blast was severe and that the number of people killed and injured may rise. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called…
Read MoreThe teens who attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego were latest to cite prior atrocities
In rambling writings full of vitriol against a wide range of people, the teenagers who attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego this week, killing three men and themselves, left little doubt about the models for their violence. Chief among them: the shooter who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in…
Read MoreTikTok posts in alleged support of Islamic State lead to arrest of Quebec man
The RCMP has arrested Quebecer Ali Ben Chaoua, 40, as part of a national security investigation. Chaoua allegedly made numerous posts on TikTok in support of the Islamic State, police claimed in a release, and officers “had reasonable grounds to fear that Mr. Ben Chaoua may commit terrorism offences.” Read more: CTV News
Read MoreEuropol disrupts thousands of IRGC online accounts across 19 countries
Europol has taken down more than 14,200 online posts, accounts and links tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including restricting the IRGC’s main X account — which had accumulated more than 150,000 followers — following the EU’s designation of the organisation as a terrorist group in February. The operation, carried out by Europol’s EU…
Read MoreIraqi National Arrested and Charged with Providing Material Support to Iranian-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Directing Attacks Targeting U.S. Citizens and Interests
The Justice Department announced today the arrest of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national and senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Al-Saadi was charged by complaint with six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
Read MoreUS conducts follow-up strikes against militants in Nigeria’s northeast
The U.S. Africa Command said on Monday it had carried out additional airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, in coordination with the Nigerian government, as joint operations against militant groups intensify. Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters said the latest strikes were conducted in the Metele area of Borno State, following intelligence that fighters…
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