Two ISIS Beatles finally admit involvement in holding Kayla Mueller hostage

Two of the ISIS ‘Beatles’ have finally admitted their involvement in holding American aid worker Kayla Mueller hostage in Syria, where she was sexually abused and tortured before her death in 2015. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who are both in U.S. military custody in Iraq, had previously denied ever meeting Mueller, but in … Read more

ISIS still ‘most significant’ threat to UK, says Defence Secretary

ISIS remains the ‘most significant’ threat to the UK, the Defence Secretary has warned today.   Ben Wallace said an estimated 360 people from the UK who travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the terror group, also referred to as Daesh, remain in the region either at large or in detention. RAF aircraft have … Read more

ISIS still ‘most significant’ threat to UK, says Defence Secretary

ISIS remains the ‘most significant’ threat to the UK, the Defence Secretary has warned today.   Ben Wallace said an estimated 360 people from the UK who travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the terror group, also referred to as Daesh, remain in the region either at large or in detention. RAF aircraft have … Read more

Shamima Begum is a ‘ticking timebomb’ says ISIS murder victim’s daughter

ISIS’ British ‘matchmaker’ British mother-of-one Tooba Gondal, 25, moved to London as a child and had previously claimed that she had permanent British residence but the Home Office issued her with an exclusion order last November, which bars her from ever returning to the UK. The mother-of-two studied at Goldsmith’s University in London and is … Read more

Shamima Begum is a ‘ticking timebomb’ says ISIS murder victim’s daughter

ISIS’ British ‘matchmaker’ British mother-of-one Tooba Gondal, 25, moved to London as a child and had previously claimed that she had permanent British residence but the Home Office issued her with an exclusion order last November, which bars her from ever returning to the UK. The mother-of-two studied at Goldsmith’s University in London and is … Read more

Sadiq Khan slams appeal to stop Shamima Begum’s return to UK

Sadiq Khan today declared that the Government should not stand in the way of Shamima Begum returning to Britain to fight for her UK passport accusing them of trying to ‘sub-contract justice to another country’.  The Mayor of London does not agree with the Home Office’s decision to challenge the Court of Appeal ruling allowing Begum … Read more

Family lawyer admits UK CANNOT be sure Shamima Begum won’t be a terror threat

The lawyer representing the family of jihadi bride Shamima Begum today made the extraordinary admission that ‘nobody can be sure’ if she is still a terror threat to Britain – but insisted that she should be allowed to return to the UK anyway. Tasnime Akunjee also declared that a ‘lack of technology’ in the Syrian … Read more

Shamima Begum did seem convincingly disenchanted by her experiences, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY 

A slight, watchful figure, she perched on a sofa in the camp commandant’s office studying me. Having had no visitors for many months, she was very wary. ‘What are you?’ she asked finally. I didn’t need to ask her the same question. By then her face was instantly recognisable; the so-called poster girl for Islamic … Read more

Shamima Begum did seem convincingly disenchanted by her experiences, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY 

A slight, watchful figure, she perched on a sofa in the camp commandant’s office studying me. Having had no visitors for many months, she was very wary. ‘What are you?’ she asked finally. I didn’t need to ask her the same question. By then her face was instantly recognisable; the so-called poster girl for Islamic … Read more

Shamima Begum is pictured wearing jeans, shirt and a blue hat as she walks through refugee camp

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has been pictured today wearing jeans, a shirt and a blue hat as she walked through a Syrian refugee camp just hours after she won her bombshell High Court case to return to the UK and challenge the stripping of her British citizenship.  Begum – one of three east London schoolgirls … Read more