Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content
Twitter is making headway in tackling online terrorism content on its platform as it suspended over 166,000 accounts in the second half of last year,...
Year: 2019
Kenyan court sentences Briton to four years on terrorism charges
A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced a British man to four years in prison on charges of helping to plan attacks in Kenya and possessing...
Seven children of dead ISIS parents reunited with Swedish grandfather in Erbil
Seven orphaned children whose parents were members of the Islamic State have been reunited with their grandfather in Erbil following their recent handover from Syrian...
Pentagon watchdog says Iraqi forces need longer-term assistance for intelligence against ISIS
The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) need more long-term assistance to assist theirintelligence apparatus, a Pentagon watchdog saidon Tuesday. The US-led coalition recently renewed an effort...
ISIS terrorists attack house and kill eight persons in right coast of Mosul
A security source informed, on Thursday, that eight persons were slaughtered by militants from the Islamic State group, when the latter attacked their house in...
Ghanian churches targeted for jihadist terror attacks
Churches in Ghana are the potential target of a terrorist group, Salafi-Jihadist based in Burkina Faso, the Africa Center for Security and Intelligence Studies (ACSIS)...
Twitter suspensions for promoting terrorism drop yet again
Twitter has released its latest transparency report, covering July-December 2018. During that time, it suspended 166,513 accounts for promoting terrorism. It said 91 percent of...
British terror suspect jailed in Kenya for possessing explosives
A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced British terror suspect Jermaine Grant to four years prison for possessing bomb-making materials, charges the accused extremist has long...
Extremist jailed for terror offences after threatening to kill police officers
An Islamist extremist who threatened to kill police officers has been jailed for terror offences. Mohammed Hamza Ghani was already going through a government deradicalisation...
Russian special forces in action against Islamic State terrorists in eastern Syria
The Russian special forces were filmed carrying out an attack against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist organization in eastern Syria recently. According to reports, the...
Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images
The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts:...
ISIS member who tried to burn down a Melbourne Mosque lash out at a jury after being found guilty
Islamic State terrorist who tried to burn down a Melbourne Mosque have angrily lashed out at a jury after a guilty verdict was called. Abdullah...