Terrorism

From Glastonbury to Nova: Free the dance floor of hate - opinion

What were once spaces for joy and connection are being hijacked by calls for violence and slogans designed not to support anyone, but to turn people against each other.

 BOBBY VYLAN spews venom at the Glastonbury music festival last week. There were on-stage chants of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ and ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, Inshallah, it will be free.’
 IDF soldiers seen operating in southern Syria, in pictures dated to March 2025

IDF elite unit 504 interrogations lead to bust of Iranian terror cell operating in southern Syria

 A woman holds the flag of Kurdistan during the celebration of Nowruz Day, a festival marking the first day of spring and Persian New Year, in Akra, Iraq March 20, 2025.

Who is behind the mysterious drone attack targets Kurdish region in Iraq? - analysis

 Protesters from "Palestine Action" demonstrate on the roof of Guardtech Group in Brandon, Suffolk, Britain, July 1, 2025

UK: Two other ‘dangerous terrorist’ groups to be proscribed alongside Palestine Action


UN calls on UK to stop proscribing Palestine Action as a terror group

“According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism," the UN said.

 MEMBERS OF the Palestine Action Group gather in Sydney, in May.

French man tied to incel movement arrested for alleged plot to attack women

French authorities said that the 18-year-old man associated and plotted with terrorists to prepare attacks on women.

 A woman holds a sign reading "Serve men, all free!" during a demonstration to call for gender equality and demand an end to violence against women to mark International Women's Day in Marseille, France, March 8, 2025.

Hamas: Militia leader Abu Shabab must surrender or face trial for treason, insurrection - report

The ultimatum stated that Abu Shabab is accused of "treason, collaborating with hostile entities, forming an armed gang, and insurrection."

 Image of militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab.

IDF soldiers arrest members of Iranian terror cell operating in southern Syria

The military said they received intelligence from interrogations in recent weeks, leading soldiers to carry out nighttime operations and arrest several terrorists.

 IDF soldiers operating in southern Syria to apprehend terrorists in an Iranian terror cell, June 2, 2025.

Arrests made in Thailand after explosives laid across Thai tourist hotspots 

Two men, identified only as 29-year-old Muhamah and 27-year-old Sulaiman, were arrested in connection with the explosives at 11 sites.

Police officers in Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand (illustrative)

Is West Bank terror threat reduced or concealed? - analysis

The main challenge for the IDF in the West Bank is whether it's maintaining peace by preventing Israeli extremist attacks on Palestinians, or if the terror threat has just been hidden.

 Israeli security forces raid the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus in the West Bank, June 18, 2025.

Editor's Notes: I raise my family on these hilltops, yet I refuse to justify extremists - comment

The perfectly normal rhythms of life in Judea and Samaria have been drowned out this week by the crack of gunfire and the smell of burning tires.

 A Palestinian man stands next to a burnt car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, June 26, 2025.

IDF arrests several suspects in southern Syria, remove threats against Golan Heights residents

The brigade had also completed several raids on weapons depots this week and even arrested more terror suspects, who were transferred for further investigation.

 IDF troops operate in southern Syria on June 29, 2025.

Greta Thunberg's 'Freedom Flotilla' puts the UK in a legal, moral quagmire - opinion

The so-called “Freedom Flotilla,” a political theater disguised as humanitarian urgency, has sailed not just toward Gaza but straight into the heart of legal and moral peril for the United Kingdom.

A drone view shows the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen, organized by the international NGO Freedom Flotilla Coalition, anchored off the coast of Catania, Italy, on June 1, 2025

Hamas increased torture against dissident Gazans while world focused on Israel, Iran war - report

This is part of an "escalating wave of bloodshed unleashed by Hamas against the ordinary Gazans it purports to represent," the Telegraph reported.

 Hamas terrorists seen in Khan Yunis, February 20, 2025

On this day: the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in northern Iraq

On June 29, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of the Islamic State caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Following this, ISIS launched a major offensive in northern Iraq and Syria.

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.