March 1, 2016 Abdelkader Arbi’s office is fairly typical for an employee of the French military, with its spacious desk, ceiling-high French flag planted in one corner, and a portrait of President François Hollande affixed to the wall. But from time to time, it serves an unorthodox purpose for a room in a state-run building:…
February 24, 2016 There are estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 Islamic State militants in Libya. According to military sources France has launched covert operations against them. While the United States announced the death of Tunisian Noureddine Chouchane and five others by US Air Force raids on a training camp, France was nearby. The…
1 February 2016 Both people that are positive and negative about the coming of refugees think the Dutch government is lacking in its information concerning the housing of refugees. People feel uninformed. This was concluded by researcher Marjan de Gruijter of the Knowledge Platform Integration & Society (KIS) based on in-depth interviews about the refugee…
21 February 2016 According to German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen, Germany and its EU allies are contemplating an expansion of the mandate of the EU Mediterranean naval mission ‘Sophia’ – tasked so far with curbing the flow of human trafficking across the Mediterranean – in order to stem the rising influence of the…
February 2, 2016 France’s anti-terror police have arrested six people who allegedly planned to attack sex clubs and leave for Syria. The group of five men and a woman, who had already bought bus tickets to join Daesh in Syria via Bulgaria and Turkey, were arrested outside the French city of Lyon. At least two…
