The defendant is on trial for leaving the Maldives to join the Syrian war.
Defence Minister Mohamed Shareef put the total number of Maldivians who travelled to Syria at 61.
Mohamed Nasheed said there was a parallel state of religious radicals ready to overrun the country and there were 300 Maldivians fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The hotline number given on the National Counter-terrorism's website has been unreachable since last year because it is incorrect.
Local media said the man from Naavaidhu island, who took the name Abu Saad Al-Maldifi, travelled to Syria early this year.
The first three Maldivian men to be charged with travelling abroad with the intent of joining a terror group have been acquitted of the terrorism charges.
Two Maldivians en route to join the fighting in Syria have been arrested in Turkey and brought back to the country, according to the police.
According to the police, the three men were arrested in a joint operation with the Turkish law enforcement authorities. They were alleged to have been planning to...
Citing audio analysis of conversations, the state prosecutor told the court that one of the defendants told a witness he was in the “sacred land of...
A Maldivian man who attempted to cross into Syria to join the civil war there has been arrested and brought back to the Maldives, the police...
A group of men with their faces covered reportedly handed out a two-page letter to prayer-goers urging Maldivians to wage jihad. According to the letter, its...
The government has identified individuals suspected of recruiting Maldivians for militant extremist groups fighting in the Syrian civil war, Defence Minister Adam Shareef Umar revealed today.
Opposition MPs questioned the government’s sincerity in tackling jihadi recruitment in the Maldives during a debate today on the first state counter-terrorism policy. MPs accused the current...
The government has promised "swift measures" against Maldivians involved with terrorist organisations in a new state policy on combating terrorism and violent extremism. A seven-page policy...
The news of the latest Maldivian recruits for jihad comes after President Abdulla Yameen submitted a policy paper on terrorism and violent extremism to the People's...
Ahmed Latheef, Ahmed Suhail Moosa, and Munawwar Abdulla are the first to stand trial for traveling abroad with the intent of joining a terror group after...
Prosecutors are seeking terror charges against three Maldivian men who were arrested on the Turkey-Syria border in February. The three are the first to face prosecution...
