by Editorial Staff The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has captured three individuals from Central Asia, accused of planning a terrorist attack in Stavropol, a city in southwestern Russia. According to what was reported by the state agency Ria Novosti, Russian authorities have confiscated materials for the manufacture of explosives and chemical substances at [...]
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by Editorial Staff In Italy there is "maximum anti-terrorism alert" even if there is no information on "hostile initiatives in preparation" by jihadist groups. This is what emerges from the Interior Ministry, after the tragedy in Moscow and in view of the meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security, which will be held tomorrow [...]
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Twenty-eight thousand sensitive targets in Italy, the terrorism alert remains very high, this is the message from the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi at yesterday's question time in the Chamber on the initiatives implemented to counter the risk of Islamic terrorist attacks and infiltrations in our Village. The international context, which the minister defined as difficult, is [...]
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by Editorial Staff Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, of Iranian origins and French citizen, was arrested for the attack that took place on 2 December in Paris, during which he attacked and killed a German tourist with a knife and hammer under the Eiffel Tower, shouting “Allah Akbar”. He swore allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in a video in which [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday's news came that the Hamas terrorists who carried out the attack on the kibbutzim on October 7 were carrying al Qaeda information leaflets on the construction and use of rudimentary chemical weapons. In addition to Isis and Hezbollah there would also be al Qaeda alongside Hamas, confirming [...]
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Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, speaking on Radio Uno, raised the alarm about the so-called "lone wolves", in reference to the resurgence of terrorism phenomena, following tensions in the Middle East. The minister also wanted to clarify that, even if there is no real organization in Italy, the danger could come "from subjects [...]
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The Israeli-Palestinian war reverberates in our societies, which have always been exposed because they are free, multiracial and multiethnic. The attack in France against a teacher who was barbarously beheaded at the hands of a Frenchman of Chechen origin shouting "allahu akbar" and the various bomb scares recorded in England and France (Louvre and palace of [...]
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Google is developing a free moderator for smaller websites that they can use to identify and remove terrorist material. A response to new legislation in the UK and the European Union forcing internet companies to do more to tackle illegal content. The software was developed in collaboration […]
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The two 20-year-olds, respectively from Fondi and Terracina, arrested this morning by the State Police were ready to "take action". The suspects are accused of the crimes of manufacturing and possession of explosive material, serious threat against members of the State Police, propaganda and incitement to crime for reasons of racial and ethnic discrimination [...]
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In various Italian cities, the State Police and the Carabinieri carried out numerous searches ordered by the District Prosecutor of Rome for association with the purpose of international terrorism, as part of a joint operation involving a total of 29 people. The operation constitutes the epilogue of the largest and most complex investigation aimed at preventing the terrorist threat of a religious origin deriving from the use [...]
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Bianchi: "Knowledge and understanding of history are essential to safeguard democracy" "Knowledge and understanding of history are essential to safeguard the values and foundations of our democracy". This was declared by the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi. "This is why the law that established the Day of Remembrance that we celebrate today, in [...]
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After a targeted monitoring activity by the men of the State Police of the Anti-terrorism of the Milanese capital, last September the woman was subjected to a delegated search which allowed to find decisive elements about the intraneity of the same in the radical circuits of jihadist matrix. In fact, in his phone, manuals have been identified [...]
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The Isis magazine al Naba returns to threaten Italy and the foreign minister, publishing a photo of Luigi Di Maio at the summit of the anti-Daesh coalition last June in Rome together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In the article entitled 'Why the Caliphate scares them!' also a hint of the 'conquest of [...]
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The agreement for combating the recruitment, training, proselytizing of terrorists and condoning terrorism via the web was signed by the State Police and the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-terrorism Directorate The agreement between the State Police and the National Anti-Mafia Directorate was signed today in Rome and Counter-terrorism to combat the recruitment, training, proselytizing of terrorists [...]
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The State Police has executed an international arrest warrant for "criminal association aimed at the preparation and commission of acts of terrorism, illegal possession of firearms, collective activity aimed at violating public order and raising funds for the financing of acts of terrorism "issued by the Attorney General [...]
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The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio would be in the crosshairs of ISIS, after having co-chaired the ministerial meeting of the anti-Daesh coalition in Rome with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The ISIS weekly al Naba published a few days ago an article about threats against Italy and the Foreign Minister, in which [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Macron last week launched an appeal to the US and other Western countries to form a coalition of special forces to replace the French operation Barkhane, which cost several billion and 55 casualties among French soldiers. Paris has decided to withdraw from the Sahel thus marking the failure of a presence [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]
read more'Day of Remembrance dedicated to the victims of terrorism', the winning schools of the 'Traces of Memory' competition announced in the Senate This morning, in the Hall of Palazzo Madama, the works of the winning schools of the VII edition of the National Competition "Traces di Memoria ", as part of the Memorial Day dedicated to the victims of terrorism and massacres [...]
read moreWith regard to press reports on the interview between the Ministers of Justice of France and Italy, the Ministry specifies: the Keeper of the Seals, Marta Cartabia, in the phone call with her counterpart Eric Dupond Moretti, on the evening of April 28, did not report a meeting at the stadium between Mauro Gurrieri and Narciso Manenti, convicted of the murder [...]
read more“France's decision to remove all obstacles to the just course of justice for a story that has been a deep wound in Italian history, for the high toll of blood shed and for the attack on the institutions of the Republic, has a historical significance. My thoughts today go first of all to the victims of the years of lead and [...]
read moreHundreds of online newspapers praise the holy war by educating lone wolves all over the world. A favorable moment due to the lack of attention of governments struggling with measures to combat the pandemic from Covid-19. (by Andrea Pinto) The holy war jihad has not been affected by the restrictions due to [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer, is used to build devastating explosives, is not expensive and is easily transportable. A precious resource for terrorist groups so much so that, apparently, they would have it in large quantities already available in various European countries. It is enough that order arrives and the sleeper cells are ready to [...]
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The Islamic State continues to move its activities online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The terrorist group recently published the first issue of a new cybersecurity magazine, to help its members gain a deeper cyber culture and help them against surveillance by intelligence agencies. The state […]
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(by John Blackeye) What should have been a successful operation, namely the release of the Italian girl kidnapped in Kenya in 2018, engaged in an NGO supporting the local population, is turning into a state problem that could end up overwhelming the President of the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [...]
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(by Vanessa Tomassini) Concerns about Qatar's suspected role in promoting extremism and terrorism have grown in Europe in recent years. While much has emerged about the substantial funding for the construction of new mosques and much is emerging about donations to Western universities and think-tanks, very little is known about who [...]
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The Bologna Public Prosecutor's Office, as part of an investigation directed by the Chief Prosecutor, Dr. Giuseppe AMATO and the Deputy Prosecutor, Dr. Antonella SCANDELLARI, issued, on 10.02.2020, a detention order for the suspect of a crime against a Tunisian citizen for the offense of training in terrorist activities, including international ones, art. [...]
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We are close to the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of NATO and the tensions between the leaders of the 29 member states who will meet in London on 3-4 December are not abating. US President Donald Trump no longer wants to "subsidize" Europe. He wants it to spend at least 2014 per cent of GDP by 2 on [...]
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Since the election of President Donald Trump, the issue of border security between the United States and Mexico has been a major topic of national debate. But the relentless attention to the southern border of the United States is due to the media and politicians ignoring the security concerns emanating from Canada. In an editorial [...]
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The Italian 007 organized yesterday the Bridge conference (Bringing radicalized individuals to disengage). A unique conference of its kind as it involved about thirty foreign countries and dealt with the strategies to be put in place to counter and prevent terrorist attacks. Present the representatives of the secret services of the so-called Paris Group (Germany, Austria, Belgium, [...]
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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini raised the alarm on the risk of terrorist attacks also in Italy, given the escalation of recent days in Sri Lanka: «We must organize ourselves so that this does not happen in Italy. The police are checking thousands of points that could be at risk and therefore we count on them, which are among the best in [...]
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In his speech for NATO's 70th anniversary, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recalled “the fight against terrorism” which “also requires our collective effort”. In this regard, the attacks of 11 September 2001 proved it. “NATO's response to those attacks was swift. Within 24 hours, and for [...]
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As reported by Nova, the president of Syria, Bashar al Assad, received the chiefs of staff of Iran and Iraq, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and Othman al Ghanimi respectively, at the head of two large military delegations. During the meeting, which was also attended by Syrian Defense Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, [...]
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The Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs in a report entitled "Terrorists in White Gloves", distributed to the press yesterday, said: "Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine use a network of NGOs advocating the boycott of Israel as a tactic. additional in their ultimate goal of dismantling the State of [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The death was confirmed by the Farnesina, another victim of terrorism that vile that strikes you where you do not imagine. It affects the places where we live and where we build our future. Yes, because they, the "bastards", the "cowards" want to break the chain of our future. An ever better present and future [...]
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Terror in Strasbourg, shooting in the crowd, dead, wounded slumped in the streets, people fleeing screaming. There are at least three victims of one, perhaps two bombers, who opened fire around 20.00. Twelve wounded, eight of whom in serious condition, including an Italian, a young radio journalist whose conditions [...]
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Today, Sunni Islamic militants in the world have quadrupled compared to September 11, 2001, despite 20 years of war by the United States and its allies. Washington launched the "global war on terror" in the aftermath of the 11/XNUMX attacks by al-Qaeda. In the following years, American and Western troops undertook [...]
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Hossameldin Antar, 37, sentenced on appeal to three years and eight months for terrorism, was released from prison and received house arrest. The man, detained in the Rossano maximum security prison, then joined his family in Cassano d'Adda (Milan). The second instance judges, last May, had reduced the sentences [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) To date, the official ISIS group has never mentioned the upcoming world championships in Russia in its public literature. I remember that the sympathizers have no connection with the main branch of the terrorist movement. However, one point should be clarified: threats and greater involvement of sympathizers are not at all [...]
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After a series of attacks, including a triple attack on as many Christian churches in Surabaya, Indonesia, the death toll rises to 9, in addition to several dozen injured. This is the bloodiest attack in years in Indonesia, a nation with a Muslim majority. The nation of Southeast Asia, which will start this [...]
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High tension tonight in Paris, one person killed and four wounded in central Paris by a man armed with a knife, killed by police officers. The attack took place near the Ope'ra, in the heart of the capital, in a very popular neighborhood of bars, restaurants and theaters. The man stabbed five people, one of whom died, [...]
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Facebook after the meager figure of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is working to grow its reputation with useful services for security. Yesterday he announced that he is also dealing with counter-terrorism: he would have developed an algorithm capable of tracking down and removing from the platform propaganda content linked to extremist groups, in [...]
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The Russian Federation Secret Service (FSB) arrested four suspects who were preparing attacks in Moscow. This was announced by the press office of the secret services themselves cited by the RIA Novosti news agency. "The group came from the city of Novyj Urengoj and was planning a series of major attacks in the Moscow region" - reads the document made public [...]
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In Iraq, he met foreign women sentenced to death, three Kyrgyz and two Azerbaijanis, accused of having been part of ISIS and having participated in armed actions. The spokesman of the High Judicial Council, Judge Abdul Sattar Bairaqdar, reported today. Five other foreigners, of which two Russian, two Azerbaijani and one French, are [...]
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A white van climbed onto a sidewalk and hit a dozen pedestrians: at least 5 dead and several injured in what immediately appeared as a deliberate attack. The man abandoned the vehicle not far away and fled, but was captured shortly after by the police who in the meantime had isolated [...]
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According to experts, the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is giving rise to a host of successor groups, which are rapidly regrouping, recruiting members and launching increasingly sophisticated attacks on government forces. A military victory in the war against ISIS was officially declared by the Iraqi government in December [...]
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Social Network always in the eye of the storm. Security in the USA has no privacy limits. Those who want to enter the country will be asked to hand over the access keys to their Facebook, Twitter and Google profiles. The authorities will thus be able to reconstruct the entire online history of a person and check, for example, any signs of [...]
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High tension in Italy for the Easter holidays. Security measures have been strengthened throughout Italy where 10000 more men for the capital will strengthen the security system, including the Army. In Pompeii by pure chance the massacre in an area with a high density of Christian faithful was avoided. Under the effect [...]
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Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame of the Gendarmerie who had offered himself as a hostage in exchange for freedom for a woman held in kidnapping, along with other civilians in a supermarket by terrorist Radouane Ladkim, died last night from the consequences of his injuries. The brother of the gendarme, during an interview [...]
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An anonymous letter, considered particularly reliable by the investigators, was delivered to the Italian Embassy in Tunis and triggered an immediate alarm about the presence in Italian territory of a possible attacker. It would be a 42-year-old man of Tunisian nationality, Mathlouthi Atef, considered a radical Islamist and would be ready for a [...]
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Two people were killed while an alleged terrorist screaming "Allahu Akbar" shot police and took hostages in a supermarket in southwestern France. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the affair has the connotations of a terrorist act. A source at the Ministry of the Interior said that there are two [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Tactically that number still represents a clear and immediate guide to carry out attacks and escape the countermeasures of the West. Nothing to do with the cartoons of the sympathizers advertised without control and raised to official threats. The 12th number should still be studied today for its completeness. In the section called "Open Source Jihad" [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) One cannot try to understand the phenomenon of terrorism without studying one of the most charismatic figures of al Qaeda. Influenced by the works of Sayyid Qutb, the creator of anti-Western jihadist thought, al Awlaki quickly became the main cultist of the extremist fundamentalist line. He wrote numerous essays that can be defined as [...]
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Israeli police revealed today that 22 traffickers were arrested with a significant amount of drugs, explosives, weapons, money and ammunition. All the material was confiscated in East Jerusalem following an undercover operation that had lasted for six months. During the operation, an officer went undercover in East Jerusalem and [...]
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Two Moroccan citizens who were arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros and by those of Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia on charges of possession and sale of hashish and cocaine. The arrests were triggered in execution of a precautionary custody order by the Bologna investigating judge, at the request of the district prosecutor. The investigations of the Carabinieri [...]
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(by Barbara Faccenda) IS (islamic state), has dedicated a lot of time and resources to the creation and dissemination of its communication campaigns, especially with the aim of recruiting and stimulating its followers on the battlefield. We assume that at the heart of any inclusive communication campaign there are two types of [...]
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Eleven soldiers died in the attack on the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul which was claimed by the Islamic State. It is the third attack in ten days in the city, after the one against a hotel on January 20 and after the explosion of an ambulance in the center on Saturday, not to mention the attack on Save The Children in Jalalabad. The presidency had [...]
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The escalation of violence gives no respite to Afghanistan and in particular to its capital Kabul, where a new attack took place in the very early hours of the morning after the recent attack on the hotel frequented by Westerners and the bloody massacre a few days ago when an ambulance loaded with TNT caused over one hundred deaths in [...]
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Al Qaeda is recruiting among ISIS militants in disarray after losing a state presence having lost territories in Iraq and Syria. This was reported by the Guardian, citing sources of Algerian internal security. The campaign would have started before the "fall" of Raqqa, the "capital" of the Islamic State in Syria. Last August in Algeria, a [...]
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According to the alarm triggered thanks to Interpol, which is currently involving all the European police forces and more in detail the anti-terrorism sections, the hunt for a truck loaded with material to produce explosives has started throughout the old continent . The vehicle in question, whose original registration number is 1-QEB-708, is the trailer [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Syria, here are the drones that attacked the Russians. Official photos show one of 13 fixed-wing drones that took off from the southwestern region of Idlib which attacked two Russian military bases in Syria on 6 January. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, strange. On the tactical evolution of drones in asymmetrical contexts I [...]
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Gennaro Monaco died yesterday in his home in the capital. He was 75 years old and had been Prefect of Rome as part of his glorious career in the police. The funeral will be held today 13 January at 12.15 at the parish of Santa Chiara, in Piazza dei Giuochi Delfici in Rome. Well known in judicial circles for [...]
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Mourning in the family of the most famous terrorist of all. Osama, grandson and namesake of Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda, died at the age of 12, who was eliminated in a blitz by the US Navy Seals between 2st and 2001nd May XNUMX in Abbottabad in Pakistan. To give the news a letter of [...]
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A young woman was blocked at Milan Malpensa airport by the state police on a European arrest warrant. The woman, RM Italo-Moroccan, is accused of criminal association with the purpose of terrorism. Mother of three young children, in spring without her husband's knowledge she left Juan Les Pins in France, where she lives with her family, for [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) ISIS has "claimed responsibility" for last Monday's failed attack that took place under the Port Authority bus terminal, one block from Times Square, New York. The short text published this night in the 110th issue of al-Naba is compatible with the applicable forecasting model that we used last December 12 [...]
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The Turkish interior ministry reports that, in Turkey, mass arrests under the post-coup state of emergency do not stop. In the last week, 923 people ended up in handcuffs on terrorism charges. About 699 is the number of those suspected of having links with the alleged coup network of Fethullah Gulen. [...]
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“Welcome to the oasis of wisdom”: this is how the 'BBC' journalists were received in the re-education center, called the 'Mohammed Ben Nayef Care and Counseling Center'. Inside the apparent tourist village, well-kept gardens, a swimming pool and a gym, circulate former Taliban detainees and al-Qaeda militants who, on the basis of the anti-terrorism law, can receive treatment to return [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Uploaded on youtube, the video has a duration of 58 minutes and 8 seconds. It is a concentrate of jihadist propaganda: narration in English, plain text. The quality of the video is guaranteed by the Western contributions made in HD available on the network, while the editing is particularly accurate. Qualitatively it is the best video of the [...]
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The global threat of terrorism continues to evolve and diversify ”: Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi, permanent representative at the UN Security Council, of which Italy is the current president, reported this. "ISIS is continuing to adapt to military pressure by changing its organization from state to [...]
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According to reports from the police, four off-road vehicles loaded with explosives, driven by extremists, arrived near the mosque and threw cars at the religious building, firing on the faithful. The mosque is located in the area of al Rwada in northern Sinai and was frequented by Muslims of the Sufi mystical current. The terrorists raged [...]
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As reported by the Nova Agency, the government of India today approved the text of a cooperation agreement with Russia to combat terrorism and organized crime: the Indian Minister of Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad said, according to whom it is of an extraordinary initiative taken by the government today to have an Indo-Russian agreement [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, a total of 114 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 244 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in October 2017. This is what emerges from the data released today by the assistance mission of the United Nations in Iraq (Unami). The number of civilians killed in [...]
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The Italian Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti in an interview with "La Stampa", spoke of the risk of terrorism, after the fall of Raqqa and of cyber security, in the light of the forthcoming political elections and the danger of interference on the network by foreign nations. Some traits of the interview are reported. On cybersecurity we have put in [...]
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The dynamic threat requires a constant re-evaluation of the control and access protocols and the consequent specific defense equipment that should be free from political correctness (which does not always happen). A vehicle-ramming attack requires special response protocols since the small arms of the police forces would not be able to stop the [...]
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Different in strategy, similar in tactics. Unlike terrorism, guerrillas seek to establish physical control over a territory. The need to dominate a territory is a fundamental element of the insurrectionary strategy since it guarantees the human reservoir for the recruitment and the logistic structures of the structured army. Terrorism does not aim at tangible control [...]
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Terrorism, al Qaeda announces the collection of the strategic diaries of Anwar al Awlaki, eliminated by a US drone in September 2011. It is a figure that I have studied over the years for its importance: to understand terrorists, one must understand their way of conceive reality. Any other type of approach will prove costly, [...]
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Qatar: Saudi parliamentarian, Doha's stance in the fight against terrorism is wrong The chairman of the friendship commission between the Saudi parliament and the European parliament, Khaled Bin Mashari, said that the position taken by Qatar, with respect to the fight against terrorism, it is wrong. The decision taken by our country against Doha falls within [...]
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Western Europe has cried less than one percent of terrorism victims globally, a 2016 study published by the University of Maryland revealed. Based on estimates, based on a worldwide database, the Global Terrorism Database (Gtd), last year there were 269 attacks in Western Europe. Worldwide [...]
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