Will the young Britons fighting in Syria be allowed to return home and resume their lives?

July 23, 2014 The Home Guard, or Local Defence Volunteers, given official status on 17 May 1940 and stood down on 31 December 1945, had a remarkable birth. As fears of a German invasion grew in 1940, the force’s architect had to fight his own campaign against the scorn and suspicion of military top brass…

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Spanish girl, 14, held on suspicion of trying to join Isis

August 4, 2014 Spanish police have detained a 14-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman suspected of trying to join Islamist extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria. Security forces stopped the teenagers on Saturday as they tried to enter Morocco allegedly to join Islamic State (Isis), whose fighters have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria, the…

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National Assembly strengthens anti-terrorism law

July 23, 2014 The National Assembly’s legal commission strengthened the law aimed at reinforcing France’s fight against terrorism. The legislation is expected to combat the threat represented by the presence of numerous French and European jihadists in Syria and in Iraq. The plan’s key measure provides for the possibility to prohibit, for a limited time,…

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Bernard Cazeneuve: number of individuals involved in jihadist networks has risen 56% in six months

The minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve presented the anti-terrorism bill to French leaders, stating a record number of involved individuals. At the beginning of his speech Cazeneuve specified that “terrorist groups have nothing to do with the Islam of France.” He then listed an unsettling number of Frenchmen involved in jihadist networks. “Despite engaged…

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Catalonia is the priority of the CNI (Intelligence Service) research on jihadist cells

July 17, 2014  While ISIS militias continue their progress in Iraq and Syria, in Spain the fight against jihadist cells is intensified especially in Catalonia which is considered  by the intelligence Service, the hottest spot for jihadism. CNI is  searching the area for cells that may be ready to send mujahideen to Iraq and Syria….

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