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My Europe Series

Yemen: where are the Houthis getting their weapons from?

Insiders Editor-in-Chief Sophie Claudet met up with Pieter Wezeman, a Senior Researcher with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI specialised in arms sales and military…

My Europe Series

Inside war-torn Yemen

Sophie Claudet: “Mohammed, Yemen is under siege today.

My Europe Series

Yemen, the forgotten war - Special Report

It is an all-but-forgotten war in which one of the world's poorest countries is being subjected to a three-way struggle with combatants using the most modern weaponry, including some banned munitions

Iraq

Iraqi forces say they will retake Falluja from ISIL 'soon'

Iraqi forces and allied militiamen are tightening the noose around the ISIL stronghold of Falluja.

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Iraq

Iraqi units advance on ISIL-held Fallujah

Iraqi government units and Shia paramilitary allies are closing on Fallujah as the battle intensifies to retake the ISIL-held city.

Syria

ISIL-claimed bombings on Assad strongholds are condemned by US and Russia

Bomb blasts which killed nearly 150 people and injured another 200 in the Syrian coastal towns of Jableh and Tartous have been condemned by both the US and…

World News

Salah Abdeslam and his journey to the French justice

Can Salah Abdeslam unlock vital information on the Paris attacks?

Iraq

Baghdad rocked by a series of car bombs

Iraqi police say the devices were detonated in the north, west and Sadr City areas of the Iraqi capital. There are dozens of dead and injured.

Bangladesh

Sufi Muslim leader is hacked to death in Bangladesh

A Sufi Muslim leader has been hacked to death in Bangladesh in what may be another attack by Islamist militants there. The remains of Mohammad

World News

A leading German politician says the country's mosques should come under state control

An influential politician from Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party says all mosques in Germany should be subject to state supervision in light of what

Italy

Italy arrests four on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack

Police in Italy have arrested four people suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in the country.

Canada

Canada PM condemns "cold-blooded" murder of Philippines hostage

A Canadian man believed to have been killed by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines has been identified as John Ridsdel. The 68-year-old former

World News

Trudeau condemns killing of Canadian hostage in Philippines

Islamist militants in the Philippines have killed Canadian hostage John Ridsdel in what Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned as an

Belgium

Thousands gather in Brussels for 'March Against Hate and Terror'

“Together in Peace” Hundreds of people have gathered in central Brussels in memory of those who died in last month’s terrorist attacks. The march is

Syria

Inside the city of Palmyra and what is left after the defeat of ISIL there

The battle for Palmyra is over but the reminders of the dangers are ever present as a team from France 2 discovered. They spent time there with the

Syria

Islamists down Syrian government aircraft capturing pilot

Islamist rebels have shot down a Syrian government aircraft over Aleppo. Reports suggest that militants from the Nusra Front have captured the pilot

World News

Brussels: the latest

Death toll rises, more terrrorism charges, airport remains closed for the moment

Pakistan

Lockdown in Lahore in aftermath of deadly bombing

Suicide bombers say they are sending a message to the government by targeting Christians in a public park

Belgium

Brussels mayor deplores 'hooligans' who disrupted Place de la Bourse

Several hundred protesters, many of whom appeared to be right-wing nationalists, disrupted a vigil in central Brussels being held to honour the

World News

Terror investigation: four more detained in Belgium

Belgian police have detained four more people in anti-terror raids in several cities, following Tuesday’s bomb attacks in Brussels, prosecutors say