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Austria files charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift terror attack

The suspect, who had planned to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

|ByREUTERS
Security information is displayed ahead of a Taylor Swift concert, following the cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna because of a planned attack, outside Wembley Stadium in London, Britain, August 15, 2024.
A woman and child walk in the the al-Hol camp in Syria's northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate on July 28, 2024, as Syrian families of suspected Islamic State fighters prepare to return to their homes in the countryside of Deir Ezzor.

Thirty-four Australians released from a camp holding families of suspected ISIS terrorists in Syria

Hukmiya Mohamed, a co-director of Roj camp, told Reuters that the 34 Australians had been released to their families, who had come to Syria for the release.

|ByREUTERS
Women and children seen inside al-Hol camp, amongst them some 6,200 women and children from around 40 nationalities, and including relatives of suspected Islamic State jihadists in the desert region of Hasakah province on January 25, 2026 in Al Hasakah, Syria.

Moving suspected ISIS prisoners to Iraq shows Washington doesn’t fully trust Damascus, expert says

Professor Eytan Gilboa warned that Tehran may pressure Iraq to allow the country to become a ground to challenge the Sharaa regime.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Nechirvan Barzani, President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region, gives a joint press conference with France's Foreign Minister in Arbil, the regional capital, on February 5, 2026.

Iraq's Kurds emerge as Middle East's key diplomatic players at Munich Security Council - analysis

The KRG has helped smooth the transition in eastern Syria by working with Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces, also hosting US forces and other anti-ISIS coalition forces.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Authorities charge two French teens for planning ISIS-linked antisemitic terror attack - report

French authorities charged two teens with an ISIS-inspired terror conspiracy after finding messages suggesting a planned antisemitic attack.

DECEMBER 2, 2025ByELI LEON
A police officer waits outside the courtroom at the courthouse in Paris, March 31, 2025.

US, Syria partner against ISIS: CENTCOM destroys caches near Damascus in first major joint op.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’a recently secured Syria's official entry into the US-led Coalition Against ISIS, formalizing the new military cooperation on counter-terrorism.

DECEMBER 1, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump meets Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh earlier this year.

American and Syrian forces conduct airstrikes on ISIS weapon storage facilities, US military says

"The combined operation destroyed over 130 mortars and rockets, multiple assault rifles, machine guns, anti-tank mines, and materials for building improvised explosive devices," CENTCOM said.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Syrian security forces in Syria's southern Daraa province on July 22, 2025.

US, Israel, don’t abandon us to Iran, Kurdistan Freedom Party leader, military chief tells 'Post'

Iraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish rights in Syria being upheld, nor will they provide Kurds with freedom."

NOVEMBER 30, 2025BySUZAN QUITAZ
Kurdistan National Army commander Hussein Yazdanpanah

'We need America': Head of Israel's Druze community appeals to Trump as Syrian brethren massacred

The Jerusalem Post traveled to the home of Israel's Druze leader, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, where hundreds of former Druze IDF soldiers have mobilized for Syrian Druze after months of genocide

NOVEMBER 28, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Sheikh Tarif meets with a delegation from The Jerusalem Post to discuss the crisis in Syria.

UK ban of Palestine Action as terror group faces court challenge over misuse of law

Palestine Action was proscribed in July, putting it on a par with Islamic State or al Qaeda and making it a crime to be a member, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

NOVEMBER 26, 2025ByREUTERS
Police officers stand guard during a mass demonstration organised by Defend our Juries, against the British government's ban on Palestine Action, at Trafalgar Square in London, Britain, October 4, 2025.

Syrian forces kill two, arrest several terrorists in anti-ISIS operation

Syrian forces foiled the cell's plot to carry out multiple terror attacks on the Syrian coast and seized a cache of various weapons and ammunition during the operation.

NOVEMBER 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014

Afghan Abdullah Haji Zada sentenced to 15 years after planning terror attack in US Election Day

“Today’s sentence, and Zada’s [...] removal from the United States, reflect [...] his betrayal and our commitment to use every tool at our disposal to detect and disrupt such plots," said Eisenberg.

NOVEMBER 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020.

The conflicts in the Middle East were always inevitable - opinion

History teaches us that whenever a vacuum of power is left unfilled, extremist groups rush to occupy it.

NOVEMBER 23, 2025BySALEM ALKETBI
NAMES OF VICTIMS are projected in Paris earlier this month, a decade since the attacks of November 13, 2015 in which 130 civilians were killed.

Islamic State-linked rebels kill 89 civilians in east Congo attacks, UN force says

Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked several localities of Congo's North Kivu province and killed at least 20 women and an undetermined number of children.

NOVEMBER 21, 2025ByREUTERS
Relatives mourn their kin who was killed in his farm following an attack by Islamic State-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, in Mbimbi location of Oicha in Beni territory, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo September 10, 2025.