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:…
March 27, 2016 Dutch anti-terrorism police on Sunday arrested a 32-year-old man in Rotterdam on suspicion of preparing an attack on France and also detained three other people, national prosecutors said. “French authorities on Friday requested the arrest of the French citizen, who had been identified in a terrorism investigation,” prosecutors said in a statement….
A group of Sunni imams are to make the first-ever visit by British Muslim religious leaders to see first hand the front line in the fight against Isis. The imams, representing mosques across the country, will travel to Iraq on Tuesday for an eight-day fact-finding mission. They are expected to visit parts of the country…
Date: 04 April 2016 In response to the events of Brussels, German authorities have been investigating potential linkages between the attackers of Brussels and Germany. Since the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, sole survivor of the Paris attackers with close links to the assailants of Brussels, security services have confirmed that Abdeslam had been in the…
Air France moved to defuse a clash with part of its work force after the airline demanded that female employees wear veils on a new service toIran, leading a union to accuse the company of “an attack on women.” The company circulated a memo on March 18 that outlined the dress standards, including a requirement…
