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PST: Terrorist group has left Syria

A group has left Syria with the aim of targeting Norway in a terror attack, the police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) revealed on Friday....

Norwegian placed on US terror list

UPDATED: The US government announced on Tuesday that a 35-year-old Norwegian man who's suspected of terrorist activities in Yemen had been added to its...

Syrian refugees rose by 177 percent

UPDATED: The number of people seeking asylum in Norway rose sharply in the first half of 2014, hitting a five-year high. Immigration agency UDI's...

Skien man brags of ISIL killings in Iraq

UPDATED: A man in his mid-20s from Skien in the Norwegian county of Telemark, who reportedly converted to Islam after growing up as a Catholic, has emerged...

Norway halts flow of Syrian refugees

Refugees from the Syrian civil war have finally started arriving in Norway, but now Norwegian authorities are hesitating to take in more. Many of...

Norwegian Islamists ‘fighting in Iraq’

One of Norway's top terror researchers said Friday that there's reason to believe more young Islamic extremists from Norway are now fighting in Iraq...

Norwegians reportedly killed in Syria

At least one Norwegian man was killed this week fighting in the Syrian civil war, and there are reports of several more recent deaths....

Norway arrests three for terror plans

UPDATED: Norway's police intelligence unit PST (Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste) announced the arrests Tuesday of three men in their 20s, all residents of Oslo, alleging that...

Broad support for more Syrian aid

Norway's Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) wants to allocate an extra NOK 1 billion (USD 168 million) in aid to the crisis in Syria, because...

Norwegian killed in Syrian conflict

Outspoken Norwegian-Albanian Islamist, 25-year-old Egzon Avdyli, has reportedly been killed in the Syrian civil war. Avdyli, a former spokesman for extremist group The Prophet's...
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