Homeland Security News

British police say they have arrested a man and a woman on suspected of terrorism offenses over suspected support for a far-left Turkish militant group.  The Metropolitan Police says a 49-year-old man and 45-year-old woman were detained early Wednesday at two addresses in London.

The man is suspected of disseminating a terrorist publication, while the woman was arrested on suspicion of disseminating a terrorist publication and supporting a banned organization.

The two were taken to a police station for questioning and their homes were being searched.  Police say the arrests are linked to the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front, or DHKP-C, a Marxist group that has killed police officers, soldiers and dozens of civilians since the late 1970s.

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

A new documentary will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Islamic State group fighters plotting a terrorist attack in France. The film comes courtesy of a French journalist who daringly infiltrated a cell of would-be jihadists for over a six-month period.  "One of the main lessons was that I never saw any Islam in this affair. No will to improve the world. Only lost, frustrated, suicidal, easily manipulated youths,"

Read more:  International Business Times

The Saudi interior ministry announced on Sunday that it had arrested one of the kingdom’s most wanted terrorists Oqab Al-Otaibi and revealed the identities of two others killed in a foiled terror attack in the southwestern Bisha province on Friday.

During a press conference, Ministry of Interior spokesman Major General Mansour Al-Turki said Otaibi had remained at large for some time for his involvement in the attack on worshippers at Al-Mustafa mosque in Al-Dalwa village on Nov. 3, 2014.

The spokesman also said two terror suspects were killed during a shootout with security forces in Bisha last Friday.

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A man who may have converted to Islam planned to throw an explosive device into a prominent Florida synagogue on Friday, authorities said, but the FBI reportedly caught him before he could carry out the alleged plot.

Juan Medina was accused of trying to blow up the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center during Passover services, The Miami Herald reported. Officials portrayed Medina as being anti-Semitic, The Herald said.

FBI agents found out about the threat and used a confidential source to set up a sting and catch Medina, WSVN reported. The center was crowded on the second-to-last day of Passover when Medina allegedly planned to hurl some type of explosive over a synagogue wall, according to WSVN.

Medina is being held at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and is slated to appear in court Monday afternoon to be charged with a weapons of mass destruction offense.

Read more: Fox News

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency says the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels show the "highly complex" nature of the terrorism threat facing Europe.

Hans-Georg Maassen told a conference Monday that extremists returning from combat zones, home-grown extremists and extremists who have come in with Europe's recent wave of migrants were all involved in the recent attacks for which the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.

Read more:  Associated Press