Latest news about Terrorism in The Nomad Today

02 November 2020, Austria, Vienna: Armed policemen search a man in the vicinity of Seitenstettengasse synagogue, after shots have been fired with multiple people injured, amid what the Interior Ministry has termed an ongoing terrorist attack. Photo: Roland Schlager/dpa.

World

UPDATE: FOUR PEOPLE KILLED

Austrian minister: Terrorist attack in Vienna had Islamist motive

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/3/20

The attack has claimed the lives of four victims, two men and two women. At least seven people are in a critical condition. The attacker was a 20-year-old man previously convicted for…

29 October 2020, France, Nice: Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi (2nd R) arrives at the scene of a knife attack in Nice. At least two people were killed and several others injured in a knife attack at a church and the suspected assailant was detained shortly afterwards. Photo: Twitter/Christian Estrosi.

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ISLAMIST TERRORISM

New detentions bring Nice knife attack arrests to 4

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/31/20

The two latest detentions were reported on Saturday. The two men in question were taken into custody late on Friday.

29 October 2020, France, Nice: Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi (2nd L) arrives at the scene of a knife attack in Nice. At least two people were killed and several others injured in a knife attack at a church and the suspected assailant was detained shortly afterwards. Photo: -/Christian Estrosi Twitter via PA Media/dpa

World

ISLAMIST TERRORISM

Second man arrested in connection with Nice church attack

The Nomad Today 10/31/20

Brahim Aouissaoui, a Tunisian man who entered France illegally on Thursday killed three people in Nice with a knife,

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Finland

ISLAMIST ATTACK

Interior Minister: 'Fight against terrorism, our common challenge'

The Nomad Today 10/29/20

The Finnish Government did not issue any statement condemning the attack through its press services.

Finland

SUPO ASSESSMENT

Finnish intelligence: Islamist terror threat in Finland 'elevated'

The Nomad Today 10/29/20

Supo has identified some groups and individuals with the motivation and capacity to carry out a terrorist attack in Finland. "Some people have moved to Finland from conflict zones after…

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TERRORISM

Three killed in terrorist attack inside Nice church

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/29/20

Mayor Christian Estrosi said that the attacker "kept repeating 'Allahu Akbar' in front of us while he was receiving treatment."

FILED - 28 September 2018, Berlin: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attends a press conference in Berlin. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

World

MAGAZINE

Erdogan to feature on cover of next Charlie Hebdo issue

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/28/20

Erdogan has been at the forefront of a wave of anger from Muslim majority countries.

World

ISLAMIST ATTACK

Parisians rally for teachers after suspected Islamist beheading

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/19/20

"You don't scare us. We are not afraid," Prime Minister Jean Castex, who was also at the rally, wrote.

World

ISLAMIST ACTION

Teacher beheaded outside Paris in 'terrorist attack'

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/17/20

The suspect had apparently shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is greater" in Arabic). The teacher had reportedly shown cartoons of the prophet Mohammed to his class as part of his lessons.

World

JOURNALISTS INJURED

7 arrested after 'Islamist act of terror' near Charlie Hebdo in Paris

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/26/20

There is little doubt that it is another "bloody attack" on the country, the Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on French television.

World

Norway arrests man suspected of link to terrorist attack in Paris

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/9/20

In 1982, four assailants threw a hand grenade and then opened fire with automatic rifles on employees and guests at a Jewish restaurant . The attack has been blamed on the Abu Nidal…

19 August 2020, Berlin: A general view of the Berlin motorway A100 at the height of the exit Alboinstrasse where police work after a car carrying an alleged ammunition box made an accident, six people were injured, three of them seriously. Photo: Tino Schöning/dpa.

World

Prosecutors: Berlin road attack driven by 'bizarre, religious mania'

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/20/20

The suspect is a 30-year-old Iraqi man who was living in Germany pending deportation after being refused asylum.

19 August 2020, Berlin: A forensic officer works on the Berlin A100 urban motorway after a car carrying an alleged ammunition box made an accident at the Alboinstrasse exit. Photo: Paul Zinken/dpa.

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UPDATE

Suspected Islamist held after series of crashes on Berlin motorway

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/19/20

Prior to the attack, the Iraqi suspect posted photos of the car on his Facebook page accompanied by religious statements written in Arabic in which he uses the term "martyr." Prosecutors also…

World

At least 19 dead after attempted prison break in Somalia

The Nomad Today 8/11/20

Some of those involved are suspected to be al-Shabaab members, and one militant escaped alive, Qalaf said.

Ukraine, Lutsk: An elderly woman, a teenager and a pregnant woman leave the bus where a heavily armed man holds more than ten people hostage on a bus. All hostages aboard a bus were freed as authorities stormed the vehicle and captured the armed attacker. Photo: -/Ukrinform/dpa

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All hostages freed from Ukrainian bus as armed attacker captured

The Nomad Today 7/22/20

Thirteen hostages had been aboard the vehicle in the stand-off of more than 12 hours with the attacker, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a handgun and a grenade, according to the authorities.…

World

German-Syrian woman stands trial for allegedly arranging IS marriages

The Nomad Today 7/3/20

She allegedly owned two Kalashnikovs and a hand grenade.

World

European court upholds loss of nationality for French terror convicts

The Nomad Today 6/25/20

They all had another nationality - Moroccan in four cases, Turkish in the fifth - so losing their French passports did not make them stateless.

A paramedic at the Madina hospital carries an injured child after a minibus struck a roadside bomb at Hawa Abdi village, northwest of Mogadishu, Somalia May 31, 2020. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

World

Somali minibus hits roadside bomb, six killed

The Nomad Today 5/31/20

The vehicle was carrying passengers, mostly from the same extended family.

Lifestyle

Facebook reports spike in takedowns of hate speech

The Nomad Today 5/13/20

The company also said it put warning labels on about 50 million pieces of content related to COVID-19, after taking the unusually aggressive step of banning harmful misinformation about the new…

Gun man terrorist mercenary shooting. Photo: Satellitov from Pixabay.

Finland

Terrorist threat at level 2 in Finland

The Nomad Today 4/3/20

Finland's Intelligence Service warns that "exceptional circumstances" such as the coronavirus epidemic "create opportunities for illegal intelligence, cyber espionage and large-scale influencing…