If a democratically-elected dictator wants to act as a conduit in a neighbour’s civil war, what does he expect but massacres in his own major cities? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 2 January 2017 Turkey is alone. First, we’ll take a look at the racist reasons for this. If 39 men and […]
01/02/2017 Ahmet S Yayla Professor & Deputy Director International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) Anne Speckhard Director, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry – Georgetown University ISIS attacked again in Turkey, this time on New Year’s Eve in the […]
REPORT Daniel L. Byman Friday, December 30 Editor’s Note:Fighting terrorism has been at the top of the U.S. national-security agenda since 9/11, but the terrorism threat, and thus the appropriate means of counterterrorism, is often grossly misunderstood. Donald Trump must understand the changing nature of terrorism, revise U.S. policy in the […]
MOHA ENNAJI Moha Ennaji is President of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies in Morocco and Professor of Cultural Studies at Fez University. His most recent books include New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe and Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. FEZ […]
TUNIS – The recent terror attack on Berlin’s Christmas market – which killed 12 and injured more than 50 – cast a pall over this year’s holiday celebrations across Europe. Viewed from Tunis, where I happened to be during the fallout, the attack has also had a major, albeit different, […]
Reuters International JAN 1, 2017 An injured woman is carried to an ambulance from a nightclub where a gun attack took place during a New Year party in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. Murat Ergin/Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) – […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year’s speech at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2016. REUTERS/Markus Schreiber/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in […]
FRIDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2016 Statement by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: “The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community strongly condemns the attacks that have taken place around the world, including recent attacks in Berlin, Zurich and Turkey in which dozens of innocent people have been mercilessly killed. “The victims of these cruel attacks and […]
Reuters International DEC 23, 2016 – Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov lies on the ground after he was shot by Mevlut Mert Altintas at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, December 19, 2016. Hasim Kilic/Hurriyet via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Tuvan Gumrukcu SOKE, Turkey (Reuters) – Those in the small […]
by Douglas Murray. The BBC is still saying, a lorry ‘went on a rampage’ in [Berlin]. Sure, trucks are the problem. Check out the spin in our media: The Independent reported that ‘Berlin’s Muslim community sends message of peace and solidarity after Christmas market attack’. The report when on to […]
Dec 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The centuries turn over, the big players evolve, the local battlefields change, but the results remain the same: when external military powers intervene in the Middle East to secure their national interests, the result is inevitably local chaos that also generates retaliations […]
By AFP – Dec 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Libyan men guard the amphitheatre in the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna in Al Khoms, 130 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Sunday (AFP photo) LEPTIS MAGNA, Libya — Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius […]
The intention of Isis’ terror attacks is to provoke European states to ‘persecute’ Muslims within their frontiers in acts of reprisal for the mass killing of western Europeans Robert Fisk @indyvoices There is something infinitely naive in our pursuit of the identity of those behind the massacres which Isis is […]
Mirror Scott Campbell The Berlin Christmas market massacre suspect has been shot dead in Milan by police after pulling out a gun during a 3am stop. Anis Amri reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or god is great, and shot an officer in the shoulder just moments after getting off a […]
Reuters International DEC 21, 2016 – Handout pictures released on December 21, 2016 and acquired from the web site of the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Federal Crime Office show suspect Anis Amri searched in relation with the Monday’s truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. REUTERS/BKA/Handout via Reuters (reuters_tickers) […]
The Local news@thelocal.de 21 December 2016 Photo: DPA German police are searching for a Tunisian man whose ID document they found in the truck which attacked a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, German media report. 12.15pm A report in Bild suggests that the Polish man found dead in the passenger […]
Police, journalists and onlookers were scattered around the damaged Christmas market the day after the terrorist attack. DW’s Ben Knight joined them. Police, many of them armed with automatic weapons, kept themselves warm on Tuesday by ordering people away from their red and white plastic cordoning tape. Keeping a tight […]
FAISAL J. ABBAS | Published — Wednesday 21 December 2016 Faisal J. Abbas Monday’s atrocious attacks that targeted civilians at a Christmas market in Berlin and Muslims praying in a mosque in Zurich resemble two sides of the same coin of hatred. Both acts of terrorism should be condemned, […]
Jessica Hartogs, Special to CNBC.com Tuesday, 8 Mar 2016 | 7:56 AM ETCNBC.com The prolonged conflict in Syria has already had a devastating economic impact but could yet spiral to cost the country more than $1 trillion, according to a new report. The report published Tuesday by children’s charity World […]
Watch | Shocking aftermath of Berlin christmas market ploughed by lorry 00:57 Harriet Alexander, New York Chiara Palazzo, Sydney Justin Huggler, Berlin 20 December 2016 • 8:54am 12 dead and 48 injured, some severely, at Berlin market Police believe “likely terrorist incident” Suspect arrested, man thought to be original driver found […]