Syrian delivery driver who rammed car into attacker hailed as hero in Austria

<p>Villach mayor praises Alaaeddin al-Halabi, who intervened in knife attack that killed 14-year-old and injured five others</p><p>A Syrian migrant living in Austria has been hailed as a hero after he rammed his car into an attacker, bringing down a radicalised assailant who had killed one teenager and left five others injured.</p><p>The stabbing, described by Austria’s interior minister as having been carried out by a Syrian man who was legally living in the country and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/16/austria-stabbing-killed-teenager-islamist-attack-minister">who had become radicalised</a> by the Islamic State group, happened on Saturday in the southern Austrian city of Villach.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/syrian-migrant-in-austria-who-rammed-car-into-attacker-hailed-as-hero">Continue reading...</a>