Listen Two Danish brothers of Somali origin have been sentenced to three and a half years in prison each for the older brother’s participation in a training camp run by al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia. They were the first convictions under a Danish law that makes it illegal to receive training from a terrorist group. The [...]

Listen Nearly a million people became U.S. citizens last year, and just over a million became legal permanent residents, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The data shows the numbers of new “green card” holders and naturalizations, the process of becoming a U.S. citizen, have been fairly steady over [...]

Listen San Diego (Alshahid)- A federal jury in San Diego, U.S. A on Friday convicted four Somali immigrants – including an imam from a local mosque – of conspiring to funnel money to a militant group in their native country. The four, had raised $10,000 and wired it to the militant group Alshabaab between 2007 [...]

Listen Mumbai airport custom officials arrested a Somali national holding a Netherlands passport, for gold smuggling on Friday morning. The arrest has revealed a new modus-operandi where the accused hold passports of countries which are generally not on the radar of intelligence agencies and customs. Customs officers said the accused, Abdi Razzak, flew in from [...]

Listen A number of officials from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation met this morning in Cairo in preparation for the group’s 12th conference, hosted in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, and scheduled for 6-7 February. The conference, which will be attended by 26 heads of state, is titled: “The Muslim World: New Challenges and Development Opportunities.” The Egyptian [...]

Listen Washington (Alshahid)-A Somali-American man was found guilty on Thursday of trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Oregon using a fake bomb supplied to him by undercover agents posing as Islamist militants, the public defender’s office said. A federal jury deliberated less than a day before reaching a verdict against Mohamed Osman [...]

Listen The FBI says it is looking into allegations that two agents intimidated a Somali man. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent the FBI a letter last week, saying man said he felt pressured when he was approached in October and asked to become an informant. CAIR-MN Executive Director Lori Saroya [...]

Listen German prosecutors have indicted a man on suspicion of being a member of al-Qaida and Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group. Prosecutors say 24-year-old German national Emrah Erdogan is also suspected of two cases of manslaughter, incitement to robbery and feigning an imminent terror attack in Germany in 2010. The federal prosecutors’ office said in a [...]