August 4, 2014 Spanish police have detained a 14-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman suspected of trying to join Islamist extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria. Security forces stopped the teenagers on Saturday as they tried to enter Morocco allegedly to join Islamic State (Isis), whose fighters have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria, the…
July 17, 2014 While ISIS militias continue their progress in Iraq and Syria, in Spain the fight against jihadist cells is intensified especially in Catalonia which is considered by the intelligence Service, the hottest spot for jihadism. CNI is searching the area for cells that may be ready to send mujahideen to Iraq and Syria….
June 28, 2014 A former senior government adviser on tackling radicalisation and extremism has defended the right of British Muslims to travel to Syria and fight. Farooq Siddiqui, a former regional manager for the government’s controversial Prevent strategy, said it was acceptable for Britons to “walk the walk” and travel to Syria to fight the…
June 24, 2014 As Isis whips up a tsunami of violence, barrelling through Iraq capturing towns and borders on a daily basis in its quest to create an Islamic state, a few entrepreneurial businessmen are capitalising on the exposure by selling a range of “terror”-related merchandise. All publicity is good publicity, particularly in the sale…
July 2, 2014 A British jihadist fighting in Syria has signalled that the UK should be afraid of the terror skills he has learnt after posting a photo of apparent homemade bombs. A Twitter account believed to belong to Nasser Muthana, 20, shows an image of a stack improvised explosive devices in a garage. Alongside…
