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Taylor Swift Returns To Stage In London After Vienna Concert Plot

Taylor Swift will return to the stage in London on Thursday to end the European leg of her "Eras" tour, a week after her Vienna concerts were cancelled due to a suicide attack plot.

International Business Times

‘Gold medal’: France wins plaudits for security after high-risk Olympic Games

Amid rising tensions over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, threats from the Islamic State group, and France’s history of homegrown Islamist terror plots as well as far-right extremism, there were real concerns about France’s ability to ensure adequate security during the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, French security services managed…

France 24

Crackdown on foreign fighters in terror zones extended

The federal government is set to extend laws banning Australians from travelling to areas overseas known to be terror hotspots.

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AFP counter-terrorism operation that targeted 13-year-old with autism cost more than $500,000

FoI documents reveal the cost of Operation Bourglinster, which was criticised for encouraging a child’s fixation on the Islamic State

The Guardian - AU

Third person arrested over plot to target Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna

A third suspect has been taken into custody in connection with plans to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna that were subsequently canceled over security concerns, Austria's interior minister said Friday. Officials said the 18-year-old suspect had pledged “allegiance” to the Islamic State group.

France 24

3rd person in custody over foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna, official says

A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift deadly concert attack plan

The suspects in custody are a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy allegedly radicalized by the Islamic State

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UN Warns Of Potential Islamic State Control In Africa

U.N. official warns of Islamic State group expansion in Africa and Austria plot influenced by ISIS ideologies. IS affiliates strengthening presence in Afri...

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IS Suspect Planned Suicide Attack At Taylor Swift Vienna Concert: Officials

A 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser planned a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, the country's intelligence agency said on Thursday.

International Business Times

Top UN official tells Security Council that Islamic State group, affiliates gaining power in Africa

A top U.N. counterterrorism official has told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist groups

The Independent UK

Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage

August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s marginalized communities, including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims, were killed in Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, and the surrounding areas.

The Conversation

The cancellation of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows is the latest incident in a long history of concert terrorism

Taylor Swift’s Eras’ Tour concerts in Vienna, scheduled for August 8–10, have been cancelled due to a foiled terrorist plot. The events were expected to draw around 65,000 attendees each night.

The Conversation

Suspects in foiled attack on Taylor Swift Vienna concerts inspired by IS group

The two suspects in an alleged plot to attack three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna appeared to have been inspired by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, Austrian authorities said on Thursday.

France 24

Taylor Swift's Vienna Shows Cancelled After IS Sympathiser Arrest

The Vienna leg of a tour by American mega-star Taylor Swift has been cancelled after Austria arrested an Islamic State sympathiser in connection with an attack plot, the organisers said Wednesday.

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Ezidi refugees mark decade of surviving ISIS massacres

Hundreds of Ezidi refugees have gathered in regional NSW towns to commemorate 10 years since surviving terrorist group ISIS killing men and enslaving women.

International Business Times

Former 'IS Bride' Loses UK Citizenship Removal Appeal Bid

A woman stripped of her British citizenship after leaving the country as a teenager to marry an Islamic State group fighter lost a bid Wednesday to take her case to the UK's top court.

Radio France Internationale

US military completes withdrawal from last base in Niger

The US military has withdrawn its forces from its final base in Niger, the Pentagon has said. It comes more than a year after coup leaders in the country told them to leave.

The Guardian - UK

Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide

A decade after thousands were killed or displaced, many in the remaining community are still living in refugee camps

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Yazidi genocide a decade on: Iraq camp closures loom, but survivors still live in fear of Islamic State

Ten years ago, on August 3, fighters from Islamic State (IS) left their bases in Syria and Iraq to attack the Sinjar region of north-western Iraq. Sinjar was home to the Yazidi people, a religious group native to the region. IS saw religious groups like the Yazidi as blasphemous and…

The Independent UK

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children

As the 10th anniversary of the Islamic State group's atrocities against Iraq's Yazidis approaches, a traumatized community is still in many ways convulsed by the legacy of the militants' onslaught

The Independent UK

The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says

The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago

International Business Times

Notorious UK Islamist Preacher Jailed For Life

A judge on Tuesday sentenced Anjem Choudary, one of the UK's most recognised radical Islamist preachers, to life jail after he was found guilty of directing a banned "terrorist organisation".

Evening Standard

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary jailed for life over directing a terror organisation

Anjem Choudary, 57, was found guilty of directing the banned organisation Al-Muhajiroun

International Business Times

Notorious UK Islamist Preacher To Be Sentenced

Anjem Choudary, one of the UK's most recognised radical Islamist preachers, will be sentenced on Tuesday after being found guilty of directing a banned organisation and encouraging support for it online.

The Independent UK

Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find safe, stable homes

Ten years ago, Islamic State militants launched an onslaught on villages and towns of the Yazidi religious community in northern Iraq

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