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Lull in terror attacks may not last 'until the end of 2019': UN report

The relative lull in Islamist terror attacks "may not last long, possibly not even until the end of 2019," UN monitors have warned in a report.

03/08/2019

Egypt

British Airways cancels all flights to Cairo due to security concerns

British Airways cancels all flights to Egyptian capital after the UK Foreign Office updates its travel guidance to warn of threat to aviation

21/07/2019

World

How is Iraqi cellist Karim Wasfi using music to fight terrorism?

Iraqi musician & conductor Karim Wasfi is working to bring music to war-torn countries.

19/07/2019

United Kingdom

Brother of Manchester Arena bomber set to be charged with murder

The younger brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber will be charged with murder after being extradited to the UK, police say.

18/07/2019

Afghanistan

Taliban car bomb kills at least 14 as group holds peace talks in Qatar

A Taliban attack on a government security compound in central Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least eight security personnel, six civilians and wounded more than 180, officials said, as rival Afghan groups met in Qatar to discuss peace.

07/07/2019

Tunisia

Panic in central Tunis as suicide blasts kill police officer

A witness described a huge blast followed by dust and panic after a bomber targeted a police car near the French Embassy in the Tunisian capital.

27/06/2019

New Zealand

Christchurch mosque attack suspect pleads not guilty

Brenton Tarrant, 29, a suspected white supremacist, is accused of carrying out the attack on two mosques, killing 51 people.

14/06/2019

Iraq

Two more Frenchmen sentenced to death in Iraq over ISIS involvement

The two men — Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41 — are the latest defendants in a string of court cases that have already seen other nine French citizens and a Tunisian national be sentenced to death in the past weeks.

04/06/2019

France

24-year-old Algerian student confesses to Lyon bomb blast, IS links

A 24-year-old Algerian student held in connection with last week's bomb blast in Lyon that injured 13 people has confessed to the attack and links to IS

30/05/2019

Libya

Euroviews. Europe's inaction on the civil war in Libya will bring crisis to our shores ǀ View

It isn’t hard to see why Ghassan Salamé accused the global community of lacking the ‘moral motivation’ to end the Libyan civil war. After all, his comments followed Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a warlord and dictator-in-the-making.

29/05/2019

World News

Euroviews. How we need to combat extremism being spread through technology ǀ View

Whatever side of the Brexit side one may be on, Britain and the rest of Europe remain united in facing the threat of extremism. Extremists will waste no opportunity to try to exploit the perceived vacuum that Brexit may lead to. Luckily for us, they are wrong.

17/05/2019

USA

Former FBI translator charged with lying about contact with terrorism suspect

The former linguist later admitted that he had known the suspect for years.

06/05/2019

World News

What clues are in purported Al-Baghdadi video?

Experts are scrutinising the purported video message from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for clues about his whereabouts and the terror organisation’s next moves.

30/04/2019

USA

California man busted in domestic terror plot wanted to kill LAPD officers

The suspect was under surveillance for weeks after he posted online messages lamenting the killing of Muslims at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

30/04/2019

USA

In one of her final acts, synagogue shooting victim helped dying children

Lori Gilbert Kaye is being remembered as a hero for the way she died. But the way she lived was just as inspiring.

29/04/2019

World News

So-called IS leader appears in alleged new video

So-called Islamic State media network published on Monday what it said was a video message from its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for the first time in five years.

29/04/2019

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso church attack kills six people, including pastor

Burkina Faso church attack kills six people, including pastor

29/04/2019

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka bans face veil amid alerts for 'imminent attacks'

Sri Lanka banned women from wearing face veils as security officials warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday's bombings are planning ' imminent attacks.'

29/04/2019

Sri Lanka

15 dead in Sri Lanka gun battle linked to Easter bombings

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were found in Sri Lank after a police raid on a militant hideout triggered a fierce gun battle.

26/04/2019

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka attack death toll between 250-260, not 359

The death toll in Sri Lanka's Easter Day attack is around 100 fewer than the 359 originally thought, top government officials said on Thursday.

25/04/2019