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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: siege over, four Islamists killed, 'including two women'

Operations over at both Splendid Hotel and Hotel Yibi At least 126 hostages released At least 23 people dead President condemns attack Four suspected

My Europe Series

The forgotten victims of Syria: foreign fighters' mothers speak out

Across Europe families are struggling to come to terms with losing sons and daughters to the war in Syria. Under suspicion as terrorists themselves, until now they have had little support or recogniti

World News

Victims of Paris kosher market siege remembered

Crowds attended a service outside a Paris kosher supermarket on Saturday (January 9) one year after four hostages and a French Islamist gunman were

World

France's year of terrorism, living with tears and fears

French media paid homage to the people killed in last year’s terrorist attacks in Paris — at Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket, as well as the

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Double suicide attacks kill more than 70 in Libya

A car bomb in the Libyan oil port of Ras Lanuf has killed at least a dozen people and wounded more than forty others. Blazes continue at five oil

World News

Charlie Hebdo attacks: five ways France has changed

It’s one year since two gunmen, brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, burst into the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened

France

France one year on from Charlie Hebdo shootings

As France prepares to remember the victims of last year’s shootings which began at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper has

My Europe Series

Turning away from terror: deradicalisation in the UK

A group of teenagers play table tennis at the Active Change Foundation (ACF), a youth charity based in Walthamstow, east London.

Bangladesh

Killers of Bangladesh blogger are given death penalty

Two former students were sentenced to death in Bangladesh on Thursday for the murder of a secular blogger in 2013. Only one of the pair was present

World News

Russia: Manhunt underway after deadly gun attack on sightseers

An historic fortress in southern Russia was the scene of a deadly shooting targeting sightseers on Tuesday evening. Who was behind the bloodshed is

France

Paris remembers one month after the attacks in the French capital

Paris was in sombre mood on a dull December day. It is one month since the City of LIghts suffered its darkest day since World War 2. Flowers and

Spain

Alleged Islamist militant arrested in Spain over plot to kill Swedish cartoonist

An alleged Islamist militant has been arrested in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia over a foiled plot to kill a Swedish artist. Ali Charef

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Head of Chechen republic vows to revenge national beheaded by ISIL

Chechnya’s president has promised a one-way ticket to eternity for the killers of a Chechen murdered on video by the radical Islamic State movement

USA

Vigils held for California shooting victims as suspect is described as 'a nice person'

Some 3,500 mourners held a candlelit vigil in San Bernardino, California, on Thursday night for the 14 people shot dead in a gun rampage at a

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Protesters urge UK lawmakers not to back a 'bomb Syria' vote

Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered outside parliament in London on the eve of a vote by lawmakers over extending airstrikes against

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ISIL forced to fight on several fronts in Iraq

French mirage fighter jets have once again been in action against ISIL militant targets this time in Iraq. According to French military authorities

Mali

Mali: rocket attack on Kidal UN base kills 3, injures 20

The United Nations says at least two of its personnel and one civilian have died in a gun and rocket attack on a camp for UN peacekeepers in northern

My Europe Series

Belgium seeks answers over its apparent status as a spring board for Europe's jihadists

Since the Paris attacks soldiers and police have flooded the streets of what is in effect Europe’s administrative capital in neighbouring Belgium

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Muslims in Russian Federation, under police pressure (some) enlist with ISIL

Indigenous Muslims living in the Russian Federation — native citizens — say their families suffer sustained harassment from the authorities, who are

Belgium

Brussels on third day of high security alert

Brussels awoke on Monday morning after 19 raids and 16 arrests overnight and with Interior Minister Jan Jambon telling radio listeners that the