Norwegian police are looking at 20 suspected war criminals from Syria, following tips from refugees and local immigration authorities, a police official said. “We are taking a closer look at …
Nadarajah Sethurupan
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The coalition fighting terrorism in Syria and Iraq should do more to combat ISIL, Norway’s foreign minister said during a visit to Turkey that coincided with a deadly suicide attack …
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Norway and Sweden were put on high alert as the 25-year-old ISIS fighter eluded intelligence services after he entered Sweden on Wednesday. Majid entered the Scandinavian country after fighting for …
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A Norway-based Iraqi Kurdish terror recruitment ring that sent people to fight in Iraq and Syria alongside Islamic State has been broken up, with 13 arrests made in Italy, Britain …
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Radical Islamists have been caught infiltrating migrant reception centres in Norway and trying to recruit new arrivals to their cause, the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has warned. The extremists …
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A Norwegian District Court sentenced controversial Kurdish cleric Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as mullah Krekar, to a year and a half in prison on Friday for threatening a Kurdish …
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Two Canadian tourists and a Norwegian resort manager, as well as a Filipino woman, abducted by the Islamic State (Isis) affiliates from a popular resort in Philippines, appeared on a …
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On Monday, global youth Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) summit in New York found an unusual speaker. Yousef Assidiq, a former recruiter for Norway’s radical outfit, Prophet’s Ummah, shared stage with …
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A Pole who allegedly fought in the ranks of Islamic State has been arrested in Norway. Radio ZET reports to this effect were confirmed by a spokesperson for Poland’s Internal …
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On social media, IS-fighters and sympathizers have called for an exchange of the Norwegian hostage Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, for currently imprisoned radical Islamist Mullah Krekar. After the Islamic State (IS) …
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Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Wednesday that her country will not pay ransom for a Norwegian man believed to be in the hands of the Islamic State. “The …
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The terror group ISIS claims to hold the Norwegian, Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad (pictured), hostage in Syria. Prime Minister Erna Solberg confirms that a Norwegian citizen has been kidnapped and is …
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It has taken two years but Norwegian security services have finally confirmed a Norwegian man of Somali descent was one of the terrorists who attacked a Kenyan shopping mall in …
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Norway’s government has held a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in the country’s recent history. A museum was also opened that displays items used …
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An Oslo court sentenced a Norwegian man to eight years in prison on Monday for fighting for Islamic militants in Syria, in the second case of its kind in the …
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‘I condemn today’s terrorist attack on a mosque in Kuwait City. An attack on people gathered for prayer is a monstrous and ruthless act of violence. Our thoughts go to …
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The minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, Ms Solveig Horne, met with the FPA, April 21. The main topics were custody conflicts between foreign families and the Child Protection …
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The Allied Pilots Association, certified collective bargaining agent for the 15,000 pilots of American Airlines, expressed strong opposition to the Department of Transportation’s decision to grant tentative approval to Norwegian …
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Adm. Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, Norway’s Chief of Defence, on how Russia, Afghanistan, Mali and other missions as well as a warming Arctic will shape his inputs for the new strategy being …
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‘We were horrified and deeply saddened to receive the news of Wednesday’s terrorist attacks in Baghdad. I would like to convey my deepest condolences to the Iraqi people, who are …
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National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan had from February 21 to 26 a weeklong science event featuring female scientists in sustainable development. More then 250 scholars, researchers and a …
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Sri Lanka – Nordic Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber paid a courtesy visit to Thorbjørn Gaustadsæther, the Norwegian envoy in Sri Lanka recently. The President and the Committee of …
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Ten percent of Norwegian women say they have been raped and one-third of those who said they were attacked said they never told anyone about it, a survey finds. Only …
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Several people are missing after an avalanche smashed into 10 houses on Norway’s remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, authorities said. Eight people were taken to hospital after the avalanche tumbled …