French law enforcement officers have been told to delete their social media accounts and to carry their weapons at all times because terror sleeper cells have been activated over the last 24 hours in the country, a French police source who attended a briefing Saturday told CNN. According to the report, Ahmedy Coulibaly, who
Denmark's commitment to fighting Islamic State jihadists will not be swayed by attacks like the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the country's defence minister said Saturday at a rally to commemorate the Paris victims. "Denmark's hands are not shaking because some terrorists are trying to scare us," Defence Minister Nicolai Wammen told local news agency Ritzau
A French police source has revealed that the "armed and dangerous" wife of Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who murdered four Jewish shoppers at a kosher store on Friday, was not in France. According to the Le Monde newspaper, the source claimed that 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, was not in France at the time of the
Three tense days in France have come to an end, but not without tragedy, as five people were killed, including the gunman, and four were left critically wounded after a hostage drama in eastern Paris ended with a police assault on Friday, AFP reports. Gunfire erupted as police stormed the Hypercasher supermarket, where at
Wednesday's horrific rampage at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris was a "matter of time," the head of France's Terror Victims Association stated Friday. "Anyone who works in this field [terrorism and security - ed.] knew that a terror attack was on its way - we didn't know where or when, but we
The Syrian Civil War and Wednesday's attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters in Paris are connected, the head of London's MI5 security agency stated Thursday, saying unchecked Islamism is threatening the West on the large scale. "We know... that a group of core Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against
Twelve people were killed in Wednesday's jihadist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - five cartoonists, three contributors, a guest at the magazine's editorial conference and a maintenance worker. Two policemen also died, one officer protecting the magazine's editor and another shot as the gunmen fled. Just who were the victims of
A judge in the United States on Friday sentenced British hate preacher Abu Hamza to life behind bars for 11 terrorism and kidnapping convictions, calling his crimes that spanned the globe "evil" and "barbaric", reports AFP. The hook-handed imam, blind in one eye and a double-hand amputee, became a tabloid bogeyman in Britain for
The Palestinian Authority’s representative at the United Nations said on Thursday that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) can immediately start examining allegations of war crimes against Israel if she chooses, according to The Associated Press (AP). The envoy, Riyad Mansour, told a group of reporters that the PA’s formal acceptance of
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered a highly unusual and surprising speech to Islamic clerics at Cairo's Al-Azhar University last week, and a translated version has been uploaded to the internet. “It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma (multinational community of Muslim believers) to be a
