An Austrian man under whose influence two couples went to Syria to join the Islamic State (Isis) group taking their nine children with them was on Wednesday jailed for eight years.
Austria's new interior ministry on Wednesday refused to allow a suspected Islamic State group fighter to travel from Georgia to Vienna for emergency surgery, saying it would pose a "major" security risk.
A Tunisian man accused of brutally murdering an elderly couple in their Austrian home last month was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group, police said on Monday.
A 17-year-old suspected Islamic extremist who was arrested in Vienna planned to set off a pipe bomb near Ramstein Air Base in Germany but changed his mind because he didn’t want to “kill so many people,” according to a report in the weekly newspaper Falter.
Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has invited a young Yazidi woman who was trafficked as a sex slave by the so-called Islamic State to be a “Goodwill Ambassador” for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
A 18-year-old man has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by Vienna’s Criminal Court, for sharing Islamic State group (Isis) propaganda material and belonging to a terrorist organisation.
An Austrian court jailed on Thursday a
15-year-old Islamic extremist for a second time, handing down a 20-month
sentence for sending banned propaganda material via mobile phone messaging
service WhatsApp.
An EasyJet flight from Vienna to London was
halted just before takeoff on Saturday because a passenger believed the man
sitting next to her might be an Islamic extremist, authorities said.
A training school for Muslim mothers to teach them how to spot the first signs their children are being radicalised by extremists has been started in Austria.
A security alert in Vienna on New Year’s Eve was part of a plot for simultaneous attacks across Europe by terror group Isis, Turkish media reported on Thursday.
An Austrian criminal lawyer known for defending alleged jihadists has taken on the case of a 17-year-old Swedish girl who was arrested in Vienna on suspicion of planning to join Islamic State (Isis) militants.
Two men held in Austria for suspected links to the Paris attacks are not French, a source close to the investigation told AFP on Thursday, denying media reports about their nationality.
Two people believed to be linked to the terror cell which carried out the Paris attacks have been arrested at a refugee centre in the Austrian city of Salzburg.
Police in Austria have said a 17-year-old girl from Sweden who was arrested in Vienna while allegedly on her way to join Isis is not suspected of any crimes in the central European country.
A 17-year-old girl from southern Sweden who was arrested on Saturday night at Vienna’s Westbahnhof station is being investigated on suspicion of “membership of a terrorist organization”, according to Austrian police.
Two suspected members of the Isis terror group who were posing as refugees whilst travelling through Austria have been taken into custody in Salzburg, according to a spokesman for the federal prosecutor.
