German prosecutors are getting creative in their attempts to bring the crimes of the Syrian civil war to court. This includes bringing charges against former security officials of Bashar al-Asad’s regime for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And it involves attempting to bring the fighters of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (IS) to justice. Charges…
Theos, a Christian think tank, has published a report ‘Religious London’ which examines the nature of religion in London. The researchers working on the report Paul Bickley and Nathan Mladin have found that London is more religious than the rest of the country which runs counter to the assumptions of many who thought the opposite….
The gender question is the one of the most important questions facing British Muslims. With some Muslims feeling deeply uneasy about it with some very serious and major issues at stake. Muslim men, are scared of feminism and gender equality, questioning what will happen ”if we open the floodgates?” With this fear, key areas of…
Sunday June the 21st, according to the French minister of Foreign Affairs, 10 jihadists’ children were repatriated. Those children were detained in camps in the northeast part of Syria under the control of Kurdish forces. Since the collapse of the Islamic State and the withdrawal of US forces in 2019, France has repatriated 28 children…
Politics surrounding Germany’s armed forces – the Bundeswehr – is fiercely contested: politically, some (not least the U.S. President) are demanding a reversal of decades of cutbacks, while others view such plans with scepticism and distrust. Operationally, the forces have been much affected by severe staff and materiel shortages, as well as by corruption scandals…
