Five years after the fall of the so-called Islamic State caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the EU’s anti-terrorism coordinator sees a more diffuse threat, coming from many different directions and spreading online. This is what Bartjan Wegter calls “mutant…
He’s still under threat of jailtime if he violates a gag order.
Niger’s military leaders said Monday (4 December) that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the country, after earlier in the day agreeing to strengthen military cooperation with Russia.
Italian PM announces plan to build new detention centers to hold migrants for up to 18 months.
The long-suffering people of Niger’s capital, Niamey, are used to intermittent power cuts. But since the coup d’état one week ago, interminable blackouts have tested their patience to the limit.
Soldiers claim to have overthrown Niger’s government following an apparent coup in the West African nation on Wednesday (26 July) when members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum.
A Brussels court on Tuesday (25 July) convicted French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini for 2016 jihadist bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people, after the country’s largest-ever criminal trial.
