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Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack

US man labelled an ongoing person of interest as Queensland police say there is no evidence of domestic accomplices

The Guardian - AU · Feb 16, 2023

Queensland police say Wieambilla shooting was 'a religiously motivated terrorist attack'

Queensland police say Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train acted as an autonomous cell and had planned an "attack directed at police".

ABC News · Feb 16, 2023

U.S. lawmakers want terrorist designation for Russia's Wagner Group

A group of Democratic and Republican senators said on Wednesday they would try again to pass legislation that would require the State Department to designate Russian mercenary company Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

Reuters · Feb 15, 2023

German Chancellor Makes No Mention Of Iran In Antisemitism Strategy

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands accused of whitewashing the world's top state-sponsor of Jew-hatred and Holocaust denial.

Zenger · Feb 13, 2023

Peru's Boluarte vows to crush 'narcoterrorism' after deadly police ambush

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte pledged a crackdown on "narcoterrorism" on Monday, speaking at the funeral of seven police officers gunned down in an area where drug traffickers operate in alliance with remnants of Shining Path militants.

Reuters · Feb 13, 2023

J&K: Crackdown Against Terrorists' Illegal Properties Unnerves Pakistan

Jammu and Kashmir administration has started a crackdown against illegal properties and encroached government lands in parts of the Union Territory. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Feb 13, 2023

Editorial: When death is deserving: Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov’s fate is now before the jury

The same 12 New Yorkers who quickly convicted terrorist Sayfullo Saipov last month of all 28 federal counts against him for murdering eight people on the Hudson River Park bike path on Halloween 2017 will now decide if he should be put to death or locked away forever.

Tribune News Service · Feb 13, 2023

Right-wing terrorism threat eased along with COVID-19

The threat of extremist violence from conspiracy theorists or people aggravated by strict COVID-19 lockdowns has decreased but not diminished.

AAP · Feb 13, 2023

Israeli Air Strike Hits Hamas Complex in Gaza

Israel hit Gaza with air strikes on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave at the weekend, the army said, as unrest persisted in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one person was killed in a pre-dawn Israeli army raid in Nablus in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 13, 2023

Right-wing terror threat has receded as COVID restrictions have eased, ASIO chief says

The threat of a terror attack by nationalist extremists or conspiracy theorists has fallen significantly, the head of ASIO says, with far-right groups largely failing to recruit from COVID-19.

ABC News · Feb 13, 2023