At least 100 people have been killed or wounded in an explosion targeting Shiite Muslims at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, according to a Taliban police official. Dost Mohammad Obaida said the “majority of them have been killed”. The blast occurred during the Friday prayer service at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz province, when […]
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An Iraqi-Kurd man has been found guilty of planning a terror attack using a bomb in a remotely-controlled vehicle. Farhad Salah, 24, was found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday of preparing to commit acts of terrorism. Jurors heard that Salah posted on social media about using a driverless car in an attack. But […]
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Two friends convicted of preparing for terrorist acts in support of the so-called Islamic State after trying to reach Syria have been jailed. 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 told. […]
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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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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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A Somali man has been found guilty of having a stash of Islamic State propaganda. Police seized two laptops, a mobile phone and a USB memory stick after searching the home of Abdirahman Mohamed in Middlesex in July 2017. Officers found electronic copies of the IS magazine as well as other documents including “safety and […]
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An Islamic State fighter detained in Syria urged Italy on Saturday to let him come home to start a new life, saying he had abandoned the self-styled jihadist “caliphate” after growing disillusioned with its rulers. Mounsef al-Mkhayar, a 22-year-old of Moroccan descent who grew up in Italy, spoke to Reuters in his first interview since […]
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A teenage student with an interest in Islamic State (IS) has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack. Haider Ahmed, 19, was convicted at Kingston Crown Court of preparing to undertake an attack, Thames Valley Police said. He was aged 16 and 17 and living with his parents at the family home in Redhill, […]
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On the 6th of December 2018, Channel 4 broadcast an interview with Adel al-Hassani, who used to be a commander with Yemeni forces that fought against Al-Qaeda and who fell foul, allegedly of UAE forces. His story and his alleged torture is highlighted in the Channel 4 documentary by Jonathan Rugman. The documentary highlights alleged […]
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A Belgian judge has ordered the government to repatriate six children of Islamic State (IS) militants and their mothers who have been detained in a camp in Kurdish-controlled Syria, the national news agency Belga said on Wednesday. Tatiana Wielandt, 26, and Bouchra Abouallal, 25, both Belgian citizens, and their children have been held in the […]
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