Over the last three years, France has suffered about twenty terrorist attacks carried out by thirty individuals, killing 241 and wounding 820 (1). In the meantime, 32 terrorist projects were foiled, including 13 in 2017 […]
After the islamist terrorist attacks that left five people dead and a dozen wounded in Carcassonnes, Trèbes and Paris where a 85-year-old jewish woman was killed, the French people are asking for tougher measures from […]
The latest terrorist islamist attack that killed 4 people and wounded dozens more in Trèbes in southern France on March 23, 2018 has sparked a huge wave of anger among the French people. Especially after […]
Days ago, the French National Assembly brought significant changes to its national security laws and therefore lifted the “state of emergency” which was set up the day after November 13, 2015. On that day, France […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the war against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq was about to be won but that didn’t mean the end for the global war on terrorism. “In […]
After the wave of Islamist terrorist attacks that struck Paris in 1995 and 1996, the French intelligence community had become a prominent if not the most advanced tool among major powers against Islamist terrorism. (1) […]
Andrew Parker, Director General of Britain’s Security Service MI5, spoke about the international counter terrorism threat and how MI5 works to tackle it. “Islamist extremists (…) threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly, and operating at a […]
The Russian government said its Air Force had likely killed the Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a bombing on May 28, 2017 near Raqqa (Syria). Iraqi news agency al-Sumaria News wrote that […]
“At least with Donald Trump, things are happening and the Islamic State (ISIS) is coming to an end,” one can hear in circles close to the Trump administration in Washington DC. President Donald Trump, entangled […]
In explaining at the G20 summit in Hamburg (Germany) that “everything is related” regarding terrorism, French President Emmanuel Macron has sparked a lively debate. While announcing that he would host a summit on the fight […]