Five suspects of Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka repatriated from UAE
5 years, 9 months ago

Five suspects of Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka repatriated from UAE

India TV News  

Five suspects linked to the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka have been repatriated from the UAE, police said Friday. The suspects also include Mohamed Milhan, a prominent member of the banned terror outfit National Thawheed Jamath that was responsible for the attacks. Milhan was also listed as a terror suspect in the Intelligence warnings issued before the Easter Sunday terror attacks, the Times Online reported. "Officers of the Criminal Investigations Department brought the suspects back to Sri Lanka this morning," police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said in a statement.

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Anti-terror agency arrests 2 accused in PMK leader Ramalingam's murder case
2 months ago

Anti-terror agency arrests 2 accused in PMK leader Ramalingam's murder case

India Today  

The National Investigation Agency on Saturday arrested two absconding accused for the brutal murder of Pattali Makkal Katchi leader Ramalingam in 2010, linked with the banned Popular Front of India. Majeeth and Hameed had conspired with other accused near the Periyapalli mosque in Thirubhuvanam on February 5, 2019 to sever the hands of Ramalingam with the intent of creating fear …

Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad arrests four alleged IS terrorists from Ahmedabad airport
10 months ago

Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad arrests four alleged IS terrorists from Ahmedabad airport

The Hindu  

Gujarat’s Anti Terrorist Squad on May 20 arrested four Sri Lankans with alleged links to the banned outfit Islamic State who were allegedly on a mission to carry out terror activities in India. Acting on a tip-off, the ATS officials arrested the accused at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel airport in Ahmedabad after they travelled from Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo via …

Malaysia minister says terror suspect who killed 2 police officers acted on his own
10 months, 1 week ago

Malaysia minister says terror suspect who killed 2 police officers acted on his own

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The young man who attacked …

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. A man interviewed in the Channel 4 videos released on Tuesday said he arranged a meeting between a local Islamic State-inspired group and a top state intelligence …

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that officials with the South Asian country’s intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people, including 42 foreigners from 14 countries. Channel 4 interviewed a man interviewed who said he arranged a meeting between …

Sri Lanka to probe allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 bombings
1 year, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka to probe allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 bombings

Al Jazeera  

British TV report alleges a top Sri Lankan intelligence official hatched the deadly Easter Sunday bombings plot to help Rajapaksa win the election. Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. A man interviewed in …

Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of official complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of official complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

LA Times  

Six near-simultaneous suicide bombings in churches and tourist hotels in Sri Lanka in April 2019 killed 269 people. Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. A man interviewed in videos aired by Britain’s Channel …

Sri Lanka marks 4th anniversary of Easter Sunday terror attacks
1 year, 11 months ago

Sri Lanka marks 4th anniversary of Easter Sunday terror attacks

The Hindu  

COLOMBO Sri Lanka on April 21 marked the 4th anniversary of the Easter Sunday terror bombings that shook the island nation on April 21, 2019, even as families of victims marched, and many gathered outside churches, demanding truth and justice. Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, especially the Archbishop of Colombo Archdiocese Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, has been raising concern over authorities’ “slow-paced” …

Sri Lanka clears police, defence chiefs over Easter bombings
3 years, 1 month ago

Sri Lanka clears police, defence chiefs over Easter bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka's High Court on Friday acquitted two top officials accused of "crimes against humanity" for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. The state had indicted the two men in November for failing to act on early warnings from an Indian intelligence agency that local jihadists were planning a string of suicide bombings in …

Sri Lanka indicts ISIL ‘mastermind’ over Easter Sunday bombings
3 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka indicts ISIL ‘mastermind’ over Easter Sunday bombings

Al Jazeera  

Prosecutors indict alleged mastermind of the 2019 suicide bombings along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators. Sri Lankan prosecutors have indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators in the island’s worst single “terror” attack. Nearly 300 people including dozens of foreign nationals were killed in the April …

Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter Sunday bombing suspects
3 years, 7 months ago

Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter Sunday bombing suspects

Al Jazeera  

Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people, according to the president’s office. Two local Muslim groups that allegedly pledged allegiance to the ISIL group were blamed for the six near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks which hit three churches and three hotels …

Easter bombings: Sri Lanka probes charges against spy agencies
3 years, 8 months ago

Easter bombings: Sri Lanka probes charges against spy agencies

Al Jazeera  

President orders investigation into allegations that some intelligence officials knew and met with people who carried out 2019 bombings. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered an investigation into allegations that some members of state intelligence agencies knew and met with people who carried out Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 that killed more than 260 people, a government official said. …

Sri Lanka Easter bombers had planned second attack, say police
4 years, 11 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter bombers had planned second attack, say police

India TV News  

A second attack was planned by the perpetrators of the April 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that targeted churches and hotels killing over 250 people, the Police said, giving a rare update on their year-long investigation. Information of the planned second attack was revealed by the ongoing investigations into the April 21, 2019, bombings by the Criminal Investigation …

2 ISIS Suspects With Links to Sri Lanka Blasts Arrested in Kochi by NIA
5 years, 4 months ago

2 ISIS Suspects With Links to Sri Lanka Blasts Arrested in Kochi by NIA

The Quint  

Sheik Hidayathullah and Mohammed Azaruddin were arrested in June from Coimbatore district by the NIA. Mohammed Azaruddin was arrested for running a Facebook page called ‘KhilafahGFX’ through which he had allegedly been ‘propagating ISIS/Daish ideology’. Digital devices including one laptop, five mobile phones, four SIM cards, one memory card, and eight CDs/ DVDs along with a large number of incriminating …

Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombers inspired by Islamic State, but had no direct link to terror group, claim investigators
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombers inspired by Islamic State, but had no direct link to terror group, claim investigators

Firstpost  

Sri Lanka’s former police chief, Pujith Jayasundara, and former secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Hemasiri Fernando, are currently facing criminal charges over their alleged negligence in failing to prevent the attack. Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people were carried out by local groups who drew inspiration from the Islamic State of Iraq and the …

All suspects of Easter terror attacks arrested: Sri Lanka Prez
5 years, 8 months ago

All suspects of Easter terror attacks arrested: Sri Lanka Prez

The Quint  

Colombo, July 17 Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said that all suspects involved in the Easter Sunday terror explosions had been arrested following extensive investigations and search operations carried out by security forces and the suspects may receive the death penalty as there was clear evidence against them, media reported on Wednesday. Speaking at a function in Malabe, the outskirts …

Easter bombings in Sri Lanka: NTJ suspect among five repatriated from Saudi Arabia, say officials
5 years, 9 months ago

Easter bombings in Sri Lanka: NTJ suspect among five repatriated from Saudi Arabia, say officials

Firstpost  

Five suspects linked to the Easter sunday bombings in Sri Lanka have been repatriated from Saudi Arabia, police said. The suspects also include Mohamed Milhan, a prominent member of the banned terror outfit National Thawheed Jamath that was responsible for the attacks. Colombo: Five suspects linked to the Easter sunday bombings in Sri Lanka have been repatriated from Saudi Arabia, …

Sri Lanka Easter blast mastermind linked to three Islamic State cases in India: NIA
5 years, 9 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter blast mastermind linked to three Islamic State cases in India: NIA

The Hindu  

Zahran Hashim, the Sri Lankan mastermind of the April 21 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, has emerged as a common link in at least three Islamic State related cases, including the latest IS module busted in Coimbatore, an National Investigation Agency probe has revealed. The NIA said so far no explosives had been found during searches at the house and …

The inside story of the nine suicide bombers behind the savage Easter attacks in Sri Lanka
5 years, 10 months ago

The inside story of the nine suicide bombers behind the savage Easter attacks in Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

May 25, 2019 04:40 pm | Updated May 27, 2019 01:55 pm IST At first, they were nameless. “An extremely mild-mannered and polite young man.” That is how a senior staff member at Ishana Exports remembers his boss’s son Inshaf Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim. “We don’t know if he played a role, but there are indications that this employee met Hashim …

Sri Lanka police arrest close aid of Easter bombers, several passports seized
5 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka police arrest close aid of Easter bombers, several passports seized

India TV News  

Sri Lanka police arrest close aid of Easter bombers, several passports seized Islamic State terrorist organisation had claimed the responsibility of the attack. A close aid of the Sri Lanka Easter day bombers was arrested in the country, police said, adding several passports were seized from his possession. They had also vandalised mosques in several towns as the anti-Muslim unrest …

Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombers, with alleged Islamic State links, had visited Tamil Nadu in 2017
5 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombers, with alleged Islamic State links, had visited Tamil Nadu in 2017

Firstpost  

Tamil Nadu Police sources said, however, that there was so far no hard evidence to show that the men, or other members of the Islamic State cell in Sri Lanka, had travelled to Kashmir. In an interview to the British Broadcasting Corporation last week, Sri Lanka’s army chief, General Mahesh Senanayake, had said members of the terror cell “have gone …

Islamic State planning 'new strategy' to target smaller countries, claims Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena
5 years, 10 months ago

Islamic State planning 'new strategy' to target smaller countries, claims Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena

Firstpost  

Maithripala Sirisena said the analysis of the explosives and devices taken into custody suggested that the bombs used in the coordinated terror attacks on 21 April, which rattled several churches and high-end hotels across the country, were made locally Colombo: It is quite possible that the Islamic State has launched a “new strategy” by beginning to target smaller countries, says …

Father, two brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings mastermind killed in gun battle
5 years, 10 months ago

Father, two brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings mastermind killed in gun battle

India Today  

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house on the east coast two days ago, police and a relative said on Sunday. Niyaz Sharif, the brother-in-law of Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the wave of Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people …

Sri Lanka attacks: Father, two brothers of suicide bombings' mastermind killed in Kalmunai raids, say relative, police sources
5 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka attacks: Father, two brothers of suicide bombings' mastermind killed in Kalmunai raids, say relative, police sources

Firstpost  

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and a relative of the suicide bombers told Reuters on Sunday. Colombo: The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security …

Sri Lanka bans two Islamist groups suspected to be behind Easter Sunday attacks; ringleader's family wounded during military raid
5 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka bans two Islamist groups suspected to be behind Easter Sunday attacks; ringleader's family wounded during military raid

Firstpost  

Nearly 10,000 soldiers have been deployed across Sri Lanka to carry out searches and boost security since the bombings in three churches and four hotels, most of which were in the capital Colombo. Colombo: Sri Lanka’s president on Saturday outlawed two Islamist groups suspected to be behind the suicide bombings on churches and hotels while the wife and child of …

Father, two brothers of Sri Lanka suicide bombings mastermind killed
5 years, 10 months ago

Father, two brothers of Sri Lanka suicide bombings mastermind killed

India Today  

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and a relative of the suicide bombers told Reuters on Sunday. Zainee Hashim, Rilwan Hashim and their father Mohamed Hashim, who were seen in a video circulating on social media calling …

Sri Lanka Easter blasts: Suspected mastermind Zahran Hashim spent time in south India, says top military source
5 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter blasts: Suspected mastermind Zahran Hashim spent time in south India, says top military source

The Hindu  

Zahran Hashim, believed to have masterminded the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, spent “substantial” time in “south India,” a top Sri Lankan military source said on Friday. The first hints of Hashim’s doctrinal videos, to likely radicalise youth, emerged when Indian authorities interrogated seven members of a group whose leader, officials found, was a follower of Hashim. ‘Hashim, a Shangri-La …

Discrepancies in Sri Lanka attack muddle investigation
5 years, 10 months ago

Discrepancies in Sri Lanka attack muddle investigation

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Hour by hour the death toll from Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombing attacks climbed. “If you can’t count the dead, how can you take care of the living, especially those who pose a threat?” Sri Lanka’s top officials have acknowledged that intelligence units were aware of threats by the militant group blamed for the attack — …

Sri Lankan police didn't arrest citizens who joined IS, joining foreign terror outfit not against law: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
5 years, 11 months ago

Sri Lankan police didn't arrest citizens who joined IS, joining foreign terror outfit not against law: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe

India TV News  

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government had known that Sri Lankan nationals who had joined the Islamic State had returned to the country, but they could not be arrested as joining a foreign terrorist organisation is not against the law. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Easter terror attacks on three Catholic churches and three …

Two Islamic State men linked to Sri Lanka Easter blasts
5 years, 11 months ago

Two Islamic State men linked to Sri Lanka Easter blasts

The Hindu  

Two suspects involved in the deadly Easter attacks in Sri Lanka are Islamic State returnees from Syria and Iraq, investigators have found. So far Sri Lanka’s investigating agencies have identified 139 persons as members of the NTJ and associated groups and “traced all of them”, an official Colombo-based source said. “It is believed that not all of them are militant, …

How India may have given Sri Lanka its most stark warning
5 years, 11 months ago

How India may have given Sri Lanka its most stark warning

Live Mint  

New Delhi: On 26 February, India’s National Investigation Agency provided Sri Lanka its biggest clue to the Easter bombings that killed at least 359 people in a series of eight coordinated blasts: the involvement of Mohammad Ashiq and five others from an Islamic State module in Coimbatore. In the interim, India’s intelligence agencies promptly passed on inputs to Sri Lanka …

Sri Lanka detains 18 new suspects amid overnight frantic hunt for people linked to bombers of Easter Sunday blasts
5 years, 11 months ago

Sri Lanka detains 18 new suspects amid overnight frantic hunt for people linked to bombers of Easter Sunday blasts

Firstpost  

The government announced there would be sackings in the security forces and police leadership following Sunday’s attacks on churches and luxury hotels as the death toll in the suicide blasts rose to 359. “Another suspect was arrested at a fourth location.” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday that police were hunting for more armed suspects and that further attacks …

Sri Lanka links Easter blasts to Christchurch mosque attacks
5 years, 11 months ago

Sri Lanka links Easter blasts to Christchurch mosque attacks

The Hindu  

April 23, 2019 04:41 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 09:48 am IST - Colombo The serial bomb attacks on Easter Sunday, which claimed over 320 lives in Sri Lanka, were a retaliation for the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand on March 15, State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene told Parliament on Tuesday, based on “initial evidence” available with …

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Easter Sunday Bombings In Sri Lanka
5 years, 11 months ago

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Easter Sunday Bombings In Sri Lanka

NPR  

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Easter Sunday Bombings In Sri Lanka Enlarge this image toggle caption Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Updated at 2:25 p.m. ET The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the devastating Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, according to a posting by the group's Amaq news agency Tuesday. The ISIS claim emerged shortly after a Sri Lankan government …

Sri Lankan government confirms that Islamist terror group National Thowheed Jama’ath responsible for blasts that killed 290 people
5 years, 11 months ago

Sri Lankan government confirms that Islamist terror group National Thowheed Jama’ath responsible for blasts that killed 290 people

Op India  

On Monday, the Sri Lankan government confirmed that a local organisation named ‘National Thowheed Jama’ath’ was responsible for the terrorist attacks across three cities of Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that killed 290 people and injured over 500. According to reports, Rajitha Senaratne, the Sri Lankan Minister for Health addressed the media and said they were still ascertaining that whether …

Easter Sunday blasts: Sri Lanka names local Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath
5 years, 11 months ago

Easter Sunday blasts: Sri Lanka names local Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath

The Hindu  

Sri Lankan authorities on Monday named a little-known local Islamist radical group, the National Thowheed Jamaath, as responsible for the ghastly Easter Sunday serial blasts that claimed over 250 lives and injured over 500 across the island nation. While no domestic or international organisation has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the National Thowheed …

Crackdown after the Pulwama attack, 23 men linked with JeM detained
6 years, 1 month ago

Crackdown after the Pulwama attack, 23 men linked with JeM detained

Op India  

As the country is lamenting the brutal murder of its soldiers, the Indian security agencies have been on the prowl in Jammu and Kashmir to nab those who played a part in enabling this attack. Security forces have detained 23 men with links to the Jaish-e-Mohammed: Report.https://t.co/S0ffCjL7Fq — India Today February 18, 2019 Security agencies believe the 23 apprehended men …

India trying to get more suspected IM members from Saudi Arabia
12 years, 4 months ago

India trying to get more suspected IM members from Saudi Arabia

India TV News  

New Delhi, Oct 30: India is trying get deported four of its citizens, suspected to be members of terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen, from Saudi Arabia. Union Home Ministry officials said the four Indians, have been under the radar of security agencies for a long time for their alleged involvement in terror activities in the country.They did not disclose the names …

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