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Alleged neo-Nazi youth accused of synagogues attack plan to face trial next year
March 16, 2025 By Faith Matters

Alleged neo-Nazi youth accused of synagogues attack plan to face trial next year

An alleged neo-Nazi youth accused of planning a terrorist attack on synagogues faces a trial next year. The 15-year-old boy, from Northumberland, is charged with engaging in conduct in preparation for committing acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006. It is alleged he began to discuss planning a terrorist attack […]

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Extreme content Southport killer viewed remains online, Yvette Cooper warns
February 2, 2025 By Faith Matters

Extreme content Southport killer viewed remains online, Yvette Cooper warns

Violent videos which Southport killer Axel Rudakubana watched are still online after the Government asked social media companies for them to be removed, Yvette Cooper has said. The Home Secretary wrote to Elon Musk’s X, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube in late January calling on them to “urgently review” material accessed by Rudakubana. […]

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University PhD student made drone to help Islamic State terror group, court told
August 23, 2023 By Faith Matters

University PhD student made drone to help Islamic State terror group, court told

A University of Birmingham PhD student plotted to supply Islamic State terrorists with a drone capable of delivering a bomb or chemical weapon, a terror trial jury has heard. Prosecutors allege Mohamad Al-Bared was designing and building the unmanned aerial device, found in a bedroom at his home, when he was arrested in January this […]

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Denmark takes al-Qaeda threat very seriously after Koran burnings
August 16, 2023 By Faith Matters

Denmark takes al-Qaeda threat very seriously after Koran burnings

Denmark is taking threats from the Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda very seriously, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said on Tuesday, according to broadcaster DR. On Monday, reports had emerged that al-Qaeda was calling on Muslims to launch retaliation attacks for recent desecrations of the Koran in Sweden and Denmark. The Danish domestic intelligence service PET had […]

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Teenage terrorist jailed for life over plot to attack soldiers and police
June 2, 2023 By Faith Matters

Teenage terrorist jailed for life over plot to attack soldiers and police

A teenage Islamic State fanatic has been jailed for life for plotting a terror attack on British police officers or soldiers after being radicalised online in the pandemic. Muslim convert Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British Army barracks in Stratford, east London. He […]

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Lebanese-Canadian academic convicted of Paris synagogue bombing in 1980
April 21, 2023 By Faith Matters

Lebanese-Canadian academic convicted of Paris synagogue bombing in 1980

A Lebanese-Canadian academic has been convicted in absentia of terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46. The court in the French capital issued an arrest warrant for Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, and denies wrongdoing. His lawyers […]

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Terror trial jury told tweet ‘encouraging terrorism’ was bid to gain followers
March 20, 2023 By Faith Matters

Terror trial jury told tweet ‘encouraging terrorism’ was bid to gain followers

A Twitter user accused of encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam has told a jury he retweeted praise for a terrorist “just to have some more followers”. Ajmal Shahpal told Birmingham Crown Court he did not believe that the killer of French school teacher Samuel Paty was “as brave as a lion” or […]

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Manchester Bombing Inquiry Shows Multiple Factors in the Radicalisation of Abedi
March 2, 2023 By Faith Matters

Manchester Bombing Inquiry Shows Multiple Factors in the Radicalisation of Abedi

The Manchester Bombing Inquiry by Sir John Sawyers presented its third report today that highlighted the influences on Salman Abedi and how a confluence of familial, social and political factors came together to produce a radicalised and dangerous individual. Twenty two people were murdered in the bombing and hundreds injured with many unable to forget […]

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Ball bearings in Liverpool bomb could have caused significant death, police say
November 19, 2021 By Faith Matters

Ball bearings in Liverpool bomb could have caused significant death, police say

The bomb used in the Liverpool Remembrance Sunday attack was a homemade explosive with ball bearings attached to it and could have caused “significant injury or death”, police have said. Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died when the taxi he was a passenger in exploded outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital just before 11am on Sunday. In […]

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Blast that hurt former Maldives president ‘act of terrorism’
May 7, 2021 By Faith Matters

Blast that hurt former Maldives president ‘act of terrorism’

Police in the Maldives said an explosion that injured former president Mohamed Nasheed was an act of terrorism. Mr Nasheed, 53, was wounded in the blast Thursday night outside his home and was being treated in a hospital in the capital, Male. Home minister Imran Abdulla told a local television that the former leader’s injuries […]

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