An Islamic State supporter who called for an attack on Prince George has had his minimum jail term cut on appeal. Husnain Rashid used a chat group to encourage supporters to target the young prince, posting the address of his school with the chilling message “even the Royal family will not be left alone”. The […]
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A teenager charged with terror offences told police that being arrested was “cool” and he would show off about it “forever”, a court has heard. The 16-year-old boy is accused of accessing bomb-making instructions on the internet and making a potential bomb filled with shrapnel, but denies intending to harm anyone. The trial at Leeds […]
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The Foreign Secretary has said giving Shamima Begum access to legal aid to challenge the decision to deprive her of UK citizenship would make him “very uncomfortable”. Jeremy Hunt said Ms Begum, who left the UK at the age of 15 to marry an Islamic State fighter, “knew the choices she was making”, but acknowledged […]
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This information has been obtained from the Rojava Information Centre and is a short transcript of an interview undertaken with female British ISIS recruiter, Tooba Gondal in the Ayn Issa camp. She survived 4 years within Islamic State territory. Interviewer: We actually went there (Baghouz), what was it like? Tooba Gondal: Getting out was like […]
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The social polarisation of a globalised world continues. Toxic discourse around ethnicity, identity, citizenship, belonging and nationhood has led to the fracturing of communities along the lines of skin colour and accents rather than shared values. And although societies are far more conscious today to not tolerate racism, what is clear also is that fear and […]
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Pope Francis told the tiny Catholic community in predominantly Muslim Morocco on Sunday that their mission was not to covert their neighbours but to live in brotherhood with other faiths. Francis has used his two-day trip to stress inter-faith dialogue. He has also backed Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s efforts to spread a form of Islam […]
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A British man accused of helping fuel the violence in Syria by joining Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State boasted his life was like something out of Mad Max in one of a series of dairy entries, a court has heard. Aidan James, 28, from Formby, Merseyside, had no previous military knowledge when he allegedly set […]
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Two friends who attempted to travel to Syria have been found guilty of preparing for terrorist acts in support of the so-called Islamic State. Safwaan Mansur, from Birmingham, and Hanzalah Patel, from Leicester, travelled to Turkey in 2016 and 2017 after checking out an area near the Syrian border on TripAdvisor, a two-week trial was […]
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Two men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to distribute terrorist publications. West Midlands Police said the arrests took place on Tuesday in Birmingham and Doncaster and were carried out by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit with the support of South Yorkshire Police. A 36-year-old man from Birmingham and a 35-year-old man from […]
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Dozens of Druze Arabs, some carrying Syrian flags and pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, gathered on the Golan Heights on Saturday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s support for Israeli sovereignty over the territory. The mountainous plateau was part of Syria until Israel captured it in the 1967 Middle East war, annexing it in […]
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