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The man accused of the Edinburgh knife attacks has been named as Lewis Hawkes after he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The spy bought thousands of AK-47s, missiles and explosives only to face ’the ultimate betrayal’. “WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. DEAD MAN!!!” read the message on Blerim Skoro’s phone. He knew he was in mortal danger.

A 20-year-old man in the UK who was under the scanner of security agencies after a trip to Pakistan has been convicted of sharing and possessing Islamist terrorist material.

The UK government has won its appeal to maintain the ban on Palestine Action. In response, the group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, vowed to fight the proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, calling the ban an extreme attack on free speech and protest.

Haji Najibullah appeared unbothered as he walked into Manhattan federal court earlier this week to learn whether he would face life behind bars for his role in brutal violence during his time as a Taliban commander – including the 2008 kidnapping of US journalist David Rohde.

Three Kurdish activists accused of being members of banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will be retried after a jury was unable to reach a verdict in their case.

On Monday, a slightly disheveled Iraqi man, shackled and dressed in beige prison overalls, was ushered into a Manhattan courtroom.

The 67-year-old had been on the run since the 90s when the gang, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, disbanded.

Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said he strongly condemned the "heinous bomb explosion" and sent his condolences to the victims’ families.

The boys were unhurt but police are appealing for witnesses with dashcam footage to come forward.

A coup is underway in Mali, though it has not brought down the governing junta just yet.

The government could propose legislation banning state-backed organizations such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the UK ’within weeks’, Sir Keir Starmer announced, as he met with the Jewish community in north London.

The Green Party wants to teach children about the "triggers of terrorism" in a move described as "dangerously naive" by counter-extremism experts.

According the media, Denis Kuznetsov — the stepfather of former Sber vice president Viktor Nikolaev, a close associate of German Gref — is currently being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo detention center on terrorism charges.

A Paris court on Monday convicted French cement giant Lafarge and eight former executives of financing terrorism, ruling they paid jihadist groups millions to keep a Syrian plant running during the country’s civil war.

A British man has been charged with offenses related to an Islamist terror group based in Somalia.

Scottish prosecutors have received more than 100 reports of alleged terrorism related to Palestine Action in seven months.

The overall impact of terrorism in Europe remains low. However, youngsters are the primary target demographic for terrorist networks, according to a new study.

Naveed Akram, who was previously known to security agencies, the prime minister states. His father, Sajid, a gun owner, was shot dead by police at the scene.

A Bondi Beach terrorist attack victim who was shot in the head has been identified as a Holocaust survivor.

Four people have been arrested in Eastbourne and Brighton as part of an investigation into extreme right-wing terrorism, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.

A 31-year-old man has been charged with allegedly assisting Manchester synagogue terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie by driving him to a UK defense facility to carry out reconnaissance.