https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An imam and three other men have been locked up by an Austrian court for running a religious group that recruited young men for Isis. https://www.thelocal.at/20191018/austria-jails-imam-and-three-other-men-for-isis-recruitment Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:24:37 +0200 austria-jails-imam-and-three-other-men-for-isis-recruitment Two young orphans of a female Isis supporter are to be handed over to their grandmother in Vienna, the first such repatriation for Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20190826/austrian-grandmother-gets-custody-of-isis-orphans Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:26:59 +0200 austrian-grandmother-gets-custody-of-isis-orphans 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20181129/austrian-jihadist-recruiter-gets-eight-year-jail-sentence Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:05:08 +0100 austrian-jihadist-recruiter-gets-eight-year-jail-sentence 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20180111/austria-refuses-to-treat-suspected-isis-fighter-in-a-coma Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:54:02 +0100 austria-refuses-to-treat-suspected-isis-fighter-in-a-coma 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20170711/austria-double-murder-suspect-was-is-supporter-police Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:16:48 +0200 austria-double-murder-suspect-was-is-supporter-police 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20170202/austrian-terror-suspect-planned-to-set-off-bomb-at-ramstein-air-base Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:44:44 +0100 austrian-terror-suspect-planned-to-set-off-bomb-at-ramstein-air-base A young boy under the age of 14 has been identified as part of a suspected Islamic extremist network in Vienna, Austrian authorities have said. https://www.thelocal.at/20170123/12-year-old-boy-part-of-austrian-islamic-extremist-network Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:07:58 +0100 12-year-old-boy-part-of-austrian-islamic-extremist-network A Syrian man is on trial in Salzburg, accused of having fought with the so-called Islamic State group (Isis), before coming to Europe to claim asylum. https://www.thelocal.at/20161017/syrian-asylum-seeker-in-court-on-terrorism-charges Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:18:25 +0200 syrian-asylum-seeker-in-court-on-terrorism-charges Three Austrian teenagers have been given custodial terms for trying to join the Islamic State extremist group in Syria. https://www.thelocal.at/20161013/austrian-would-be-teen-jihadis-get-custody Thu, 13 Oct 2016 21:34:27 +0200 austrian-would-be-teen-jihadis-get-custody 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). https://www.thelocal.at/20160920/kurz-asks-former-isis-sex-slave-to-be-ambassador-for-osce Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:47:46 +0200 kurz-asks-former-isis-sex-slave-to-be-ambassador-for-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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160914/two-years-jail-time-for-18-year-old-who-shared-isis-videos Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:18:06 +0200 two-years-jail-time-for-18-year-old-who-shared-isis-videos 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160428/teen-jailed-for-isis-propaganda Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:53:49 +0200 teen-jailed-for-isis-propaganda The trial of an Islamic preacher accused of recruiting and murdering for the terrorist group ISIS has resumed today in Graz. https://www.thelocal.at/20160418/major-terrorism-trial-resumes-in-graz-austra Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:14:53 +0200 major-terrorism-trial-resumes-in-graz-austra 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160326/isis-scare-grounds-easyjet-flight-to-london Sat, 26 Mar 2016 23:52:06 +0100 isis-scare-grounds-easyjet-flight-to-london 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160307/mothers-in-austria-trained-to-tackle-extremism-and-radicalisation-in-children Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:31:55 +0100 mothers-in-austria-trained-to-tackle-extremism-and-radicalisation-in-children An 18-year-old girl has become the latest teenager in Austria to receive a jail sentence for trying to marry an Isis fighter and travel to Syria. https://www.thelocal.at/20160302/another-austria-teen-jailed-for-wanting-to-marry-isis-fighter Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:11:42 +0100 another-austria-teen-jailed-for-wanting-to-marry-isis-fighter A 17-year-old Swedish girl arrested in Austria has been found guilty of planning to join Isis militants. https://www.thelocal.at/20160218/trial-of-swedish-isis-teenage-girl-starts-in-vienna Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:45:13 +0100 trial-of-swedish-isis-teenage-girl-starts-in-vienna 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160107/vienna-new-year-alert-part-of-eu-wide-isis-plot Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:16:24 +0100 vienna-new-year-alert-part-of-eu-wide-isis-plot 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20151221/swedish-teen-celebrated-paris-attacks Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:05:51 +0100 swedish-teen-celebrated-paris-attacks 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20151217/paris-attacks-suspects-held-in-austria-not-french Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:33:28 +0100 paris-attacks-suspects-held-in-austria-not-french