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 … ]
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 … ]
A suspected Islamic State jihadist blew himself up in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border during a police raid, injuring five officers, including one seriously, officials said Sunday. The suspect detonated explosives when police raided [ More … ]
US president Barack Obama will hold talks with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Sunday, according to a US official. This comes as world leaders seek a united response to the bloody attacks in central Paris [ More … ]
Police have begun questioning the relatives of the first terrorist to be identified after the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, French media reported as the investigation into the attacks widened to take [ More … ]
France’s intelligence services are facing intense scrutiny over whether they could have prevented the Paris attacks, since one of the terrorists was known to the agency.  According to Yves Trotignon, a former counter-terrorism official in [ More … ]
A Syrian who passed as a refugee through Greece last month, an Egyptian and a known French extremist were among the eight terrorists who killed nearly 130 people in a bloody wave of suicide bombings and [ More … ]
One of the gunmen who was killed after attacking a Paris concert hall on Friday had French nationality, and was known to have ties with Islamist militants, a source close to the inquiry said to Reuters. [ More … ]
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