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A mobile phone worker who called himself ‘Captain the illiterate’ and planned a suicide bomb attack was in the country illegally after the Home Office shut down his bogus college, a court has heard. Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, was attending a college in Whitechapel, East London, when it …...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday released a report attempting to link immigrants to terrorism, presenting statistics showing that the vast majority of people convicted of international terrorism charges in the United States during the past 15 years were born in foreign countries...

The terrorist threat in Denmark remains “serious,” with some jihadists who left Europe to join Islamic State now returning and possibly planning attacks at home, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said in a report. Military action against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in...

The Nigerian army has finally uncovered new tactics used by Boko Haram terrorists to evade air raids in the northeast. via Tori News – http://ift.tt/2CPopUn Get More Nigeria Metro News

Several Boko Haram Terrorists structures have been set ablaze and destroyed by a combined effort of the Nigerian army and Nigerian Air Force – This was as troops conducted intensive bombardments on selected BHT locations in the Sambisa general area … via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷...

Four persons were killed on Thursday in a clash between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Minda, Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State. The Public Relations Officer, Taraba State Police Command, David Misal, confirmed the development. Misal said two persons were killed after the father of...

At least five people were killed and 15 wounded after two suicide attackers stormed a church in the restive southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta Sunday, officials said, just over a week before Christmas. Senior Quetta police official Abdul Razzaq Cheema gave the toll for the attack, which took...

Security experts have warned that Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb as the African Union alerted recently that over 6,000 Africans who fought for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq could soon be returning to the continent. According to the experts, the returning fighters pose a major security...

The UK government has warned its citizens to stay away from crowded places in Nigeria during the Christmas and New Year festivities. It said there are plans by unnamed insurgent groups to bomb the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In a travel advisory to its citizens, the UK government listed...

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has again been listed among the most powerful Muslims in the world. Shekau was ranked with President Muhammadu Buhari, the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Saad and others in the 2018 edition. This is contained in a Muslim publication, "The Muslim 500" in its...

President Muhamadu Buhari has promised that the Federal Government would support universities affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. Buhari who was represented by Prof. Salihu Abdullahi, made this known on Saturday at the 23rd Convocation of Modibbo Adama University of...

The United Arab Emirates has banned people from publishing expressions of sympathy towards Qatar and will punish offenders with a jail term of up to 15 years, the UAE-based newspaper Gulf News and pan-Arab channel Al-Arabiya reported on Wednesday. Recall that the United Arab Emirates, along...

Islamic State has abducted around 900 civilians, mainly Kurds, in northern Syria over the past three weeks, a monitoring group said Friday. This is coming as Kurd-led insurgents are attempting to dislodge the extremists from their strongholds in the area. The kidnappings took place in...

A video purportedly made by supporters of the Islamic State makes direct threats against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for combating terrorism on their Internet platforms. The 25-minute propaganda video was released by a group calling itself "the sons of the Caliphate...

Twitter Inc. has shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Twitter has said it only takes down accounts when they are reported by other users, but said that it has...

Google is going to try diverting "extremist searches" towards warnings about radicalisation. Search and social media firms are under pressure to do something about propaganda put online by Islamic State militants and their supporters. It's estimated there are more than 50,000 IS-related Twitter...

The Federal Government has commended the United States endorsement of its anti-corruption fight, calling it an incentive to continue with the battle that must be won for the Nigeria to achieve sustainable growth. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, told media executives in...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Buratai confirmed that the Nigerian Army has defeated the Boko Haram insurgents. He also commended the Army for crushing terrorism in the north east. The army chief spoke over the weekend while laying the foundation stone for the new Brigade...