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France ‘will intervene’ if jihadist nationals sentenced to death in Mi

The comments came after an Iraqi court sentenced a German woman to death for belonging to the so-called Islamic State.

Spain

Fourth suspect in Spain attacks granted conditional release - court

My Europe Series

Insiders: Living with Terror

Insiders takes an in-depth look at how Europe is responding to the threat of terrorist attacks.

My Europe Series

Fighting extremism - in and out of prison

Usman Raja is a cage fighting coach.

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France

France awards damages to parents of girl who went to Syria

The Council of State ordered the French state to pay 15,000 euros to the parents of a girl who left a Paris airport heading for Syria even though she was on a wanted list.

France

French Senate says deradicalisation programme is failing

France's Islamic deradicalisation programme is designed to stop young, embittered Muslims embarking on violent jihad in Iraq and Syria.

Cult

'Jihad' - a play which follows the odyssey of three young Muslims who go to Syria

A play called ‘Jihad’ has been on stage in Brussels and France.

Russia

Russian student jailed for attempting to join ISIL

Varvara Karaulova pleaded not guilty, saying she was motivated by love for a man fighting in Syria whom she had met online.

Mali

Destroying culture is now a war crime

Former Islamist rebel Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi has been found guilty of war crimes for destroying historical sites in Timbuktu during Mali's conflict in 2012.

France

Schoolboy arrested in Paris on suspicion of planning 'imminent' attack

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Paris on suspicion of preparing what’s described as an imminent “violent action.

Syria

ISIL tactics on exporting terror abroad

Since the restoration of the caliphate on June 29, 2014 under the rule of the self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the so-called Islamic state called on foreign jihadists to take their terror c

United Kingdom

How the West and its media feed the 'monster' of Jihad

Government policies, isolation, misogyny, racism, despair and denial.

World News

Turkish-German man jailed in connection with plans for a bomb attack

German police said that they thwarted an attack by the 36-year-old, known only as Halil D, in April last year. He has been jailed for weapons offences.

Iraq

Eleven dead in attack on Iraq gas plant

Militants from ISIL reportedly began the assault in the early hours of the morning, when a car bomber targeted the main gate of the facility in Taji, allowing a vehicle to enter with six militants who

Germany

Germany's first Syria war crimes trial opens in Frankfurt

A 21-year-old man has gone on trial in Germany for alleged war crimes in Syria. The case in Frankfurt is the first of its kind in Germany related to

Iraq

In Iraq, fighting ISIL's ideology in mosques, prisons and schools

The war against the group calling itself Islamic State, or ISIL, is also a war against its beliefs.

Belgium

Belgium: The people known and suspected of being linked to the attacks

The investigation into the terrorist attacks of March 22 in Brussels, claimed by the so-called Islamic State have brought to light the ramifications

Saudi Arabia

Bin Laden 'left $29 million to global jihad' - US authorities

Deceased Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden left most of his twenty-nine-million-dollar inheritance to the continuation of global jihad, newly-released

Iraq

Jihadists destroy ancient monastery in Iraq

For 1,400 years Saint Elijah’s Monastery in Mosul Iraq had survived assaults by nature and man, but now newly obtained satellite images have

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