Police have arrested a man in the Paris region as part of the investigation into the 13 November attacks in the city, sources say. Some 2,700 raids have been conducted since the attacks, with 360 people placed under house arrest across France, the AFP news agency reports. Police have also arrested two people in northern…
A French nursery school teacher admitted on Monday that he had fabricated a story about being attacked by a hooded man claiming to be acting on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) group, according to the local prosecutor’s office. The 45-year-old teacher was rushed to hospital with minor stab wounds to the side and throat…
The last detainee at Guantanamo Bay from the UK, who was released after 14 years in detention, has said that Islamic extremists living in the country should “get the hell out”. Shaker Aamer, 48, was held at the US military facility in Cuba on suspicion of terrorist activities but was never charged or tried. He…
Britain’s first Muslim hip-hop duo, Poetic Pilgrimage, have been making music for years but the outfit only recently achieved widespread recognition. Born in Bristol to Jamaican parents, Muneera Williams and Sukina Owen-Douglas converted to Islam in 2005. Since starring in a documentary earlier this year, the London-based pair, dubbed the “hip-hop hijabis”, have been performing…
Nine people were added to a long list of lives taken by domestic terrorism when Dylann Roof allegedly began shooting inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. At least 48 people have been killed stateside by right-wing extremists in the 14 years since since the September 11 attacks — almost twice…
