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 Austria's defence minister suggested on Tuesday that suspected jihadists returning from the Syrian war should wear electronic tags under a planned package of new "anti-terror" measures. https://www.thelocal.at/20170124/austria-eyes-electronic-tags-for-jihadists-returning-from-syria Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:47:27 +0100 austria-eyes-electronic-tags-for-jihadists-returning-from-syria Jihadism in Austria is an issue that evidently also affects women. According to a survey conducted by the Austrian Green Party via the Ministry of the Interior, over 280 people revealed that they either planned to or had already traveled to IS conflict zones in Syria and Iraq to join groups engaged in active combat. https://www.thelocal.at/20161209/number-of-potential-female-jihadists-in-austria-higher-than-expected Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:38:07 +0100 number-of-potential-female-jihadists-in-austria-higher-than-expected A study by the City of Vienna shows that a high proportion of Muslim teenagers in the Austrian capital are at risk of being radicalised. https://www.thelocal.at/20161017/young-muslims-at-risk-of-radicalisation-in-vienna Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:53:28 +0200 young-muslims-at-risk-of-radicalisation-in-vienna A Moroccan man arrested in Brussels in July is being held in Austria, suspected of having links to the jihadist cell responsible for the Paris attacks last November, a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor told AFP on Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20160905/moroccan-terror-suspect-extradited-to-austria Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:25:21 +0200 moroccan-terror-suspect-extradited-to-austria The court case against suspected jihadists taking place in Graz was postponed on Monday for around six to seven months. https://www.thelocal.at/20160301/jihadi-court-case-postponed-in-graz-austria Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:19:15 +0100 jihadi-court-case-postponed-in-graz-austria Austrian officials expressed their condolences and condemned the deadly shooting attack in Paris on Wednesday, according to local media reports. https://www.thelocal.at/20150107/austrian-president-condemns-paris-attacks Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:02:00 +0100 austrian-president-condemns-paris-attacks After the arrests in November of more than a dozen suspected jihadists in Austria, prosecutors are worried about their safety from reprisal attacks. https://www.thelocal.at/20141218/austrian-prosecutors-fear-jihadist-reprisals Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:42:56 +0100 austrian-prosecutors-fear-jihadist-reprisals An alleged Islamic hate preacher who was arrested in Vienna over claims he is the mastermind of a terrorist network recruited 64 fighters for Islamic jihad and did shooting and combat training in Vienna to prepare to fight in Syria, according to the prosecutor in Graz. https://www.thelocal.at/20141212/custody-extended-for-islamic-hate-preacher Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:03:00 +0100 custody-extended-for-islamic-hate-preacher The Kronen Zeitung newspaper is reporting that a luxury ski hotel in western Austria is under police protection after it received a threatening email from self-proclaimed “Caucasus terrorists” who said they planned a bomb attack as retaliation against the recent arrests of 14 suspected jihadists. https://www.thelocal.at/20141203/ski-hotel-receives-bomb-threat Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:33:00 +0100 ski-hotel-receives-bomb-threat According to a report in the Austrian daily Kronen Zeitung, the ring-leader of the 13 alleged jihadists who was arrested in a series of raids in the early hours of Friday morning was a major player in a global terror network. The Local looks at the profile of the alleged Bosnian-Serb mastermind. https://www.thelocal.at/20141128/profile-of-a-jihadist-terror-arrestee-revealed Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:39:00 +0100 profile-of-a-jihadist-terror-arrestee-revealed A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Lower Austria as a suspected jihadist on Tuesday evening. https://www.thelocal.at/20141028/jihadist-14-year-old-boy-arrested Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:22:00 +0100 jihadist-14-year-old-boy-arrested The two teen girls who joined Jihadists in Syria, then changed their minds and now want to return to Austria, face up to five years in jail for supporting a terrorist organization, according to a report in the news daily Heute. https://www.thelocal.at/20141015/jihadi-teens-face-five-years-jail Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:57:00 +0200 jihadi-teens-face-five-years-jail Salzburg's Islamic community is deeply disturbed by the case of two young men from Pinzgau, who are suspected to have traveled to Syria in mid-August as jihadists. https://www.thelocal.at/20140919/muslim-community-against-jihadists Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:29:00 +0200 muslim-community-against-jihadists Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration, Sebastian Kurz, wants more preventive work done in Austria to prevent the radicalization of young people towards Jihad. https://www.thelocal.at/20140918/kurz-proposes-anti-jihad-measures Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:26:00 +0200 kurz-proposes-anti-jihad-measures One of two Viennese teenagers rumoured to have been killed in Syria has confirmed she is alive, and said the other girl is too. https://www.thelocal.at/20140916/viennese-student-alive-in-syria Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200 viennese-student-alive-in-syria Police have arrested nine people on Austrian territory who are suspected of wanting to participate as jihadists in the war in Syria. https://www.thelocal.at/20140820/nine-suspected-jihadists-arrested-in-austria Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:51:00 +0200 nine-suspected-jihadists-arrested-in-austria