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Citizenship of dozens held in ‘barbaric’ conditions is being removed in ‘systematic way’British women and children captured after the collapse of the Islamic State in Syria are being held in “barbaric” conditions and deprived in a “systematic way” of their UK citizenship, according to a report on their conditions.As many as 35 British children and 15 British women are detained by Kurdish forces in...

While Democrats and Republicans squabble in Washington, injustice and violence reigns from Palestine to MozambiqueBelieve it or not, the world did not stop turning on its axis because of the US election and ensuing, self-indulgent disputes in the land of the free-for-all. In the age of Donald Trump, narcissism spreads like the plague.But the longer the wrangling in Washington continues, the greater the collateral...

Children among those reported drowned as Islamist insurgency drives thousands of families from homes in Cabo DelgadoMore than 40 people fleeing violence in Mozambique’s conflict-torn north are believed to have drowned after the boat carrying them to safety sank, according to reports.At least 70 people were on board the vessel when it sank on 29 October in the Indian Ocean just north of the...

Kujtim Fejzulai believed to have acted alone but known to have been an Isis sympathiserAustrian police are investigating whether an Islamist terrorist who killed four people in Vienna on Monday night was part of a wider network and if the attack could have been prevented.Kujtim Fejzulai, known to authorities as a sympathiser of the Islamic State group, which claimed credit for the murders, is...

The brutal killing of at least 35 people on Monday has left Afghanistan’s younger generation fearful of the futureAt a mountainside graveyard, surrounded by dusty brown hills specked with colourfully painted houses, 20 year-old Marziah Tahery was laid to rest on Tuesday; a light breeze in the warm autumn air, echoes of children’s play in the distance.The morning before – as on most other...

Kujtim Fejzulai deceived mentors in deradicalisation programme, minister saysAn Islamic State-supporting gunman who killed four people and injured 22 others in an attack in central Vienna on Monday night deliberately “deceived” his mentors in a deradicalisation programme to feign a renunciation of jihadism, Austria’s interior minister has said.The 20-year-old dual Austrian and North Macedonian citizen, named as Kujtim Fejzulai, was shot dead by police...

Fact that Isis attacks have declined in EU does not mean threat has disappeared, says expertDoes the attack in Vienna on Monday night presage a return to the darkest days of the wave of terrorist violence that shook Europe between 2012 and 2017?Over that five-year period, hundreds died in lethal stabbings, attacks with cleavers, bombings of stadiums and airports, as well as assaults by...

Attack in busy restaurant district of Austrian capital on eve of new Covid lockdownLive updates: several people arrested after Austria attackWhat we know so farHow the night unfoldedEuropean leaders react Austrian police have made several arrests at addresses linked to an Islamic State sympathiser who killed at least four people in a terrorist shooting attack in Vienna on Monday night.Two men and two women...

Islamic State West Africa Province fighters fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, sources sayJihadists linked to the Islamic State group have killed 14 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on an army base, military sources have said.Two sources told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity that fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group had attacked the base in Jakana on Friday evening,...

Shaped by the fight against Isis and a fateful US drone strike, the factions now pose a danger to Baghdad’s weak governmentThe dust had barely settled on the fall of Iraq’s second city when the call came. It was June 2014 and Islamic State had just captured Mosul, the prize in a fight for control of a country already scarred by more than a...

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, held in detention for two years, transferred to America and charged with terrorism offencesTwo British-born citizens alleged to have members of an Isis execution squad infamous for beheading hostages have been flown to the US to face trial after two years in detention. Related: The jihadist 'Beatles': Britons who became the face of Isis cruelty Continue reading...

Hostage-taking and multiple murder among charges levelled against Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh The grisly allegations of hostage-taking, brutality and multiple murder in the lengthy charge sheet against Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh represent more than just a summary of US case against the British-born Isis followers.It amounts to an indictment of Isis, the brutal terror organisation that drew murderous strength from...

Five-year-old found after Canadian parents killed in airstrikeParents were believed to have been Isis membersA five-year-old girl who spent more than a year in a Syrian detention camp after her family were killed in an airstrike on Isis members has been released and will soon join her family in Canada.Officials announced on Monday that the girl, known as Amira, had been released into the...

Shehroze Chaudhry charged with inventing identity as a ruthless killer as saga prompts debate over repatriation and de-radicalization For months, unbeknown to his classmates and neighbours, a self-professed executioner was living freely in Canada’s largest city.But in 2018, his exploits were made public on a blockbuster podcast produced by the New York Times, in which the man who called himself Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi confessed...

President urges greater checks for sabotage before displaced people are returnedSuspected Islamist militants have killed at least 11 people in north-eastern Nigeria in an attack on a security convoy that was taking people displaced by an insurgency back to their homes, police and security sources said on Saturday.Islamic State, to whom a breakaway faction of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram pledged allegiance in 2016,...

Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, gained notoriety from the podcast, Caliphate, but his account of grisly murders for Isis has been questioned Police in Canada have arrested a man for lying about his participation with the Islamic State, while charging another for joining the terror group in Syria.Police announced on Friday charges against Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, who operated under the name Abu Huzayfah al-Kanadi. He was...

British officials hand over evidence after mother of one of accused men loses challengeThe prosecutions of two alleged Islamic State members accused of carrying out a series of beheadings can go ahead in the US after British officials handed over key evidence.The material was given to Washington after high court judges sitting in London dismissed a challenge brought by the mother of one of...

Six NGO staff and two local guides were ambushed in a nature reserve in AugustThe Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for the murder of six French aid workers and their two local guides while they were visiting a nature reserve in the west African country of Niger.The six French humanitarian workers, aged between 25 and 30, their guide and their driver were...