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LONDON — A new report has revealed family connections between a man believed to have ascended to a senior leadership role within the Islamic State (ISIS) terror network and the United Kingdom. According to the *Daily Mail*, Abdul Qadir Mumin, a figure linked to ISIS's operations in Somalia, has a wife and three children currently living in Slough, Berkshire. Mumin, who was born in Somalia, lived for a time in Sweden before moving to the UK, where he was granted British citizenship. His wife, Muna Abdule, 43, told the newspaper she and their three children—a son aged 20 and two daughters aged 18 and 17—have had no contact with him for over a decade. "He abandoned us...We have not seen or heard from him in more than 10 years. We have nothing to do with him," said Abdule, who works for a health company and lives in a council flat. During his time in the UK, Mumin was known as a radical preacher. He is reported to have crossed paths with two notorious...

A quiet storage facility in Vienna. A rural property in Orbaek, Denmark. A roadside plot outside Plovdiv, Bulgaria. For years, these unassuming locations across Europe held a deadly secret: buried caches of Kalashnikov rifles, pistols, silencers, and ammunition. These were not the weapons of local criminals but part of a long-term, strategic contingency plan laid by Hamas, designed to give the group the capacity to strike far beyond the borders of Gaza and the West Bank. For decades, Hamas's military operations were geographically confined, focusing on Israel and the Palestinian territories. However, a series of high-profile arrests, disrupted plots, and intelligence disclosures over the past two years reveal a decisive and dangerous shift.  European and Israeli security officials now assess that Hamas, with its capabilities in Gaza severely degraded by war, has taken a strategic decision to "go global," actively plotting attacks on European soil. ...

Senior Hamas officials living outside the Gaza Strip are operating under sweeping new security protocols, internal documents reveal, as the group braces for potential Israeli assassination attempts in countries beyond the Middle East. This security crackdown follows a failed Israeli strike in Qatar and signals a new phase of international shadow warfare. Hamas is implementing extreme counter-surveillance measures for its senior leaders operating abroad, driven by a conviction that Israel plans further assassination attempts against its top officials, potentially in countries outside the Arab world.  The new directives, reviewed by Asharq Al-Awsat and reported by The Times of Israel , point to a high-alert state within the militant group's overseas leadership. The heightened fear stems directly from Israel's September 9, 2025, airstrike in Doha, Qatar, which targeted a meeting of the group's political leadership. While Hamas' chief negotiator, Kha...