TERRORWARS - POLICY DAILY

Treasury levels new sanctions against Hamas-affiliated individuals, groups

Nov 14, 2023 (UPI)

The department said the sanctions are in coordination with actions by Britain to protect international financial systems against Hamas and its handlers. "The Un...

Germany bans support for Hamas

Nov 09, 2023 (UPI)

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser put the ban into effect Thursday and announced she is also dissolving the German branch of the Samidoun Palestinian Prison...

FBI director warns Hamas-Israel conflict increases risk of attacks on Americans

Oct 31, 2023 (UPI)

During a hearing held by the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Wray said there has been a surge in terrorist o...

As hostilities grow in Lebanon today, U.S. officials remember '83 Beirut attack

Oct 23, 2023 (UPI)

The ceremony in Beirut, attended by U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea and other officials, came even as a new conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based Islamic m...

Germany arrests Iraqi Islamic State war crimes suspect

Oct 11, 2023 (AFP)

The suspect, identified only as Abdel J.S., was detained in the western city of Wuppertal, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement. He is accused of...

Russia loses bid to regain seat on UN rights body

Oct 10, 2023 (AFP)

Russia, which was competing with Bulgaria and Albania for two open spots allocated to the Eastern Europe regional group, nonetheless received 83 votes in its fa...

NYPD tightens security at churches, synagogues after Hamas attacks in Israel

Oct 07, 2023 (UPI)

Officials in the Counterterrorism and Intelligence Division issued a statement saying the department was on high alert and that additional security measures had...

Colombian army apologizes for civilian executions

Oct 04, 2023 (AFP)

The government has said 6,402 civilians died as part of this policy from 2004 to 2008, with slain civilians dressed up in guerrilla fatigues in some cases. On T...

ISIS official captured in northern Syria helicopter raid: US

Sep 25, 2023 (UPI)

U.S. Central Command in Florida identified the detainee as Abu Halil al-Fad'ani, who is described as an ISIS Syria Operational and Facilitation official. He was...

U.N. report accuses Russia of 'widespread and systematic' torture in Ukraine

Sep 25, 2023 (UPI)

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine made the accusations during a presentation to the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in Geneva. The comm...

U.S. blacklists family network funding Hezbollah in Latin America

Sep 13, 2023 (UPI)

The Treasury and State Departments announced the sanctions Tuesday, stating they target "key Hezbollah operatives and financial facilitators." Among those desig...

UK terror suspect in court over prison escape

Sep 11, 2023 (AFP)

Daniel Khalife, 21, was arrested on Saturday after a huge four-day hunt to locate him after his disappearance from Wandsworth prison in south London. He strappe...

UK police probe 'inside job' theory for terror suspect escape

Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)

Former soldier Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, is believed to have strapped himself to the underside of a delivery van to flee Wandsworth prison on Wednesday. His disa...

Terror accused on the run after daring escape from London jail

Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)

Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was reported to have been working in the kitchen of Wandsworth prison and wearing a chef's uniform of a white t-shirt and red and white...

Britain to designate Wagner Group as a terrorist organization

Sep 06, 2023 (UPI)

Home Secretary Suella Braverman presented a draft order that would take effect next week and make it a criminal offense punishable with a prison sentence of up ...

Amnesty urges 4 Arab states to tell truth about the disappeared

Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)

The four Middle East states "have a very large population of missing and disappeared people", Amnesty's Aya Majzoub told AFP at an event with families of the mi...

Iraq says arrested IS member for gathering intel

Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)

The man, whose name was not given, was detained by "intelligence units charged with the security of tourist infrastructure", a ministry press release said. It s...

Syrians recall 'apocalypse' chemical attack, 10 years on

Aug 21, 2023 (AFP)

"I was in such shock. I smelt death," said Mohammed Sleiman, a paramedic from Zamalka in Eastern Ghouta who lost five members of his family that day. On August ...

Guantanamo judge rejects torture-derived confession

Aug 19, 2023 (AFP)

The judge in the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba US military tribunals said that a confession by Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 attack against...

U.S. sanctions four linked to 2020 poisoning of Alexei Navalny

Aug 17, 2023 (UPI)

The sanctions targeted Alexey Alexandrovich Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Vladimirovich Osipov and Vladimir Alexandrovich Panyaev, all of whom the Tr...