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Germany
Germany to send rifles, tank busters to aid Kurds
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Germany
German minister accuses Qatar of financing ISIS
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Germany
Syria and Iraq: Why young German men bring terror and death
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France
US allies pledge support for Iraq, but no military action
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Austria
Antisemitism on rise across Europe ‘in worst times since the Nazis’
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Europe
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict spills into Europe with protests, anti-Jewish slogans
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Al Qaeda
Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror
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France
Anti-Semitism on the march: Europe braces for violence
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Germany
The public prosecutor is investigating Abu Bilal Ismail, a Danish imam from the Grimhøj mosque in Aarhus, after he recently told worshipers at the Al Nusrah mosque in Berlin that they should kill Jews “to the very last one” and “[m]ake them suffer terribly.” Ismail has also encouraged Danes to travel to Syria for jihad. Pierre Vogel, a Salafist preacher and former boxer, has moved to Hamburg, where officials say there are about 240 Salafists, of whom some 70 support violent extremism.
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Germany
Guiding Germany’s Young Muslims Off the Road to Jihad
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Europe
UN asks Europe to take Syrian refugees as region saturated
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Al Qaeda
Islamists Seek Support in German Prisons
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Europe
Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Too European?
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Germany
The Interior Ministry said authorities have stepped up security at airports after a request by the US triggered by fresh concerns that al Qaeda may be trying to smuggle bombs on board airliners to the US. The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that Islamist terrorism has become the number one threat to Germany, and noted that over 320 German Islamists have traveled to Syria for jihad; he also said the number of Salafists in Germany has risen from 4,500 in 2012 to about 6,000.
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Canada
Europe employs outreach program to rehabilitate Islamist extremists
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Lebanon
Western help, boosted cooperation behind security successes
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Germany
Authorities charged Kreshnik B., a German citizen from Frankfurt am Main, with membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Following his return from Syria, he was arrested on suspicion of planning attacks. Authorities are investigating the German Brigade of Millatu Ibrahim, whose leader, Denis Cuspert a.k.a. Deso Dogg a.k.a. Abu Talha al-Almani, is now fighting for ISIS. Interior Minister de Maiziere recently expressed concern that Islamists from Germany are cooperating with ISIS in Iraq as well as in Syria.
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Europe
Jihadists back from Syria are ‘deadly danger’ to Europe, Germany warns
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Germany
German police arrested French jihadist Tewffik Bouallag in Berlin as he arrived on a flight from Istanbul. Bouallag, a native Frenchman, reportedly fought in Syria with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and is thought to have returned to Europe to recruit fighters for Syria or to plan attacks.
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ISIS touts French, German, and Libyan suicide bombers in Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham continues to highlight the deaths of foreign jihadists in both Iraq and Syria.
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Germany
A Lebanese man identified as Ismail I. was charged with membership in a terrorist organization after returning from fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Syria; his brother Ezzeddine I. and a German identified as Mohammad Sobhan A. were charged with supporting a terrorist organization. At the time of his arrest, Ismail was on his way back to Syria with money, military equipment, and medicine that he had obtained with the help of the other two men. Authorities estimate that some 300 people have gone to Syria from Germany to fight, most of them German-born Muslims.
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Afghanistan
US says troop plan only guarantees NATO Afghan mission until end-2015
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Afghanistan
Hagel: Afghan anti-terror planning still underway
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Africa
Hezbollah cutting costs as Iranian aid dries up
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Iran
UN experts’ report shows Iran’s deceptive procurement tactics
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Iraq
In Iraq and Syria, a resurgence of foreign suicide bombers
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Germany
Police arrested a Somali man in Kehl in possession of a fake Kenyan passport and a fake Swedish visa last week; he said he was applying for asylum. Authorities are building an additional wall to protect the interim storage of nuclear materials at the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant against terrorist attacks.
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Afghanistan
Security Eroding in Northern Afghanistan after German Withdrawal
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Germany
A court is investigating Ismail I., 24, a Lebanese national suspected of fighting last year in Syria for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and two of his accomplices; he was allegedly sent back to Germany by ISIS to procure money and supplies for the group. A court sentenced a Somali pirate chief to 12 years in prison on kidnapping and extortion charges.
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Europe
European jihadists form ISIS brigades in Syria
