French warplanes targeted the IS stronghold in Syria for the third consecutive day on Tuesday. Air strikes target the jihadists who claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, Defence Minister Jean Yves Le Drian said. “At [ More … ]
Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Tuesday of a “third world war against humanity”, describing the Islamic State group as “savage outlaws of religion” in the wake of the Paris attacks. During an official visit to [ More … ]
Tunisia has arrested a cell of 17 Islamist militants and prevented a major assault on hotels and security forces in the resort town of Sousse planned for this month, a senior government official told Reuters [ More … ]
Russia’s security chief says that it was an act of terror brought down the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board. “Traces of foreign explosives” were found on debris [ More … ]
In a comment in The Guardian Nicolas Hénin, once himself a hostage of Daesh, writes that the west shouldn’t play into the hands of Daesh: “As a proud Frenchman I am as distressed as anyone [ More … ]
Russian security officials now confirm that the plane that crashed over Sinai at the end of October was brought down by a bomb, after explosive traces were found on the wreckage. According to Russian media, [ More … ]
France’s response to the Paris terror attacks gained pace on Monday with counterterrorism raids arrests across the country with more than nine arrests and “massive†airstrikes launched on Islamic State targets in Syria, as the [ More … ]
Turkey notified France twice in December 2014 and June 2015 about one of the attackers that were responsible for the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, a senior Turkish government official [ More … ]
“In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him [ More … ]
The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks has been named as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud by French officials. It has been reported that Abaaoud had links to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train when two US [ More … ]
Belgian police has reportedly arrested one of the main suspects for the Paris attacks, Salah Abdesalam.
Two people have been named officially as being involved in Friday’s terror attacks, while three other names have emerged in news reports. French authorities have said seven attackers died while carrying out Friday [ More … ]
Two suicide bombers named as Ahmad Al Mohammad and Samy Amimour from Friday’s attacks have been identified by the Paris prosecutors. Al Mohammad, the bomber who targeted the Stade de France, is now definitively linked by authorities to [ More … ]
All economic indicators in Egypt point to the fact that the country is approaching a real economic collapse, which Egypt will pay for for many years to come. The indicators from the Egyptian Exchange show [ More … ]
Several victims of the most recent terrorist attack in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds injured, were foreign. Many of them there were of Arab nationality. The Arab victims came from the North African nations, [ More … ]
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