Sheriff Joe Arpaio or “America’s Toughest Sheriff” as he has been called, kicked off his volunteer posse holiday watch at an Arizona mall on Monday. He also said “terrorists with evil intent should be worried about armed citizens who will be ready to defend themselves and others.”
The State Department says that all of the refugees admitted to the U.S. from Syria since the November 13 Paris terror attacks have been Sunni Muslims.
A French national known as an Islamic State recruiter and executioner, believed by some to be the real ringleader of the Paris terror attacks, will go on trial in Paris this week although he is thought to be in Syria. Salim Benghalem,
France and Belgium want to improve intelligence sharing between the nine European nations most concerned with jihadist threats in the wake of the Paris attacks, a French government source said Monday evening. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his Belgian
The Belgian Prime Minister has slammed France for blaming Belgium in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, but his own Deputy Prime Minister has conceded they have a problem with radical Islam. Initially the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, voiced his discontentment with France
Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been outspoken in his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the Islamic State before, but his new interview in Der Spiegel contains some of his toughest words yet, and he offers stern criticism of the Bush administration as well.
On Monday, the White House announced some tightening of the visa waiver program, whose participants include countries such as France and Belgium. The Paris terror attacks were the obvious reason for the new measures.
Climate change activists at the United Nations COP21 environmental summit have been condemned for wrecking the public memorial to the Paris attacks victims. Over 300 climate change activists, left-wing extremists and fellow travelers were arrested yesterday as violence broke out in the Place de
Belgian authorities released a man arrested in a counter-terror raid after less than 24-hours questioning without charge — despite bomb-making materiel having been found in his flat. Despite the one-bedroomed urban home of the unidentified man having no garden or plants
Texas officials are doubling-down on their opposition to Syrian refugees settling in the state. Help them and we may sue you and may terminate your funding from the state, state officials warn.
In the wake of the Paris attacks, the left wing commentariat – by which I mean, the commentariat – took every measure they could to lecture the political right about using the Paris attacks to warn about their concerns over
PARIS – Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve urged French Muslim leaders on Sunday to develop an “enlightened Islam” to confront what he called the obscurantist views of Islamic State that lead young Muslims into violence. At their first meeting since the
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday accused Israel of perpetrating “the worst kind of terrorism for the last 60 years,” noting that it was far more “barbaric” than the Paris terror attacks two weeks ago by Islamic State
FRANKFURT – Germany could send 1,200 soldiers to the Middle East by the end of the year to provide service support to planes and ships of an anti-Islamic State coalition, Germany’s top defence official told a newspaper on Sunday. Chancellor
In the troubled Brussels district of Molenbeek, politician Sarah Turine is on the frontline of her own war to stop the sons of Belgian families going off to Syria to join Islamic State fighters. The first step is often to
Violence has cast a long shadow over a climate summit opening in Paris on Monday, two weeks after 130 people were killed in a coordinated jihadist onslaught on the French capital. As more than 150 world leaders prepared to meet
BELGRADE, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Some assault rifles used by the Islamic militants in the Nov 13 Paris attacks and later seized in police raids were produced in the former Yugoslavia’s state arsenal, the company’s director said on Saturday. Milojko
The ringleader behind the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation.
Environmental concerns, along with worry about the fortunes of Syrian civilians after ISIS is gone, kept the Obama administration from striking Islamic State oil targets, claims former CIA director Michael Morell.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is willing to “cooperate” with the West in Syria against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) but does not believe the West is ready to work with their coalition.
The European Commission has asked for U.S. assistance in dealing with the migrant crisis, including increased cooperation with American military in the Mediterranean and diplomatic pressure on Gulf states. An internal document prepared by Commission staff and sent to Washington last month —
France’s emergency services and military have seen a surge of interest from young people keen to join up after watching the Paris attacks unfold on television. “During the attacks I saw all these emergency workers helping people voluntarily. I just
(AFP) – France on Friday will mourn the 130 people killed in the November 13 Paris attacks, with President Francois Hollande leading a solemn ceremony in honour of the victims. Families of those killed in France’s worst-ever terror attack, claimed
Four assault rifles used in the deadly Paris attacks were allegedly purchased from a trafficker in Germany, newspaper Bild reported Friday. Quoting documents from the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office, the newspaper said two AK47s and two Zastava M70s were sold on
Following the terror attacks on Paris, French politicians from “anti-racism” groups, socialist and even hard left parties are rushing to agree with Marie Le Pen of the Front National, who called for Islamic sermons in mosques to be given in
The Great Mosque of Brussels was evacuated and 11 people decontaminated Thursday after the discovery of a suspicious package containing white powder as the EU capital remained on highest possible terror alert. “A parcel was found at the entrance to
Four of the main suspects in the Paris attacks were on a list of radicalised people compiled by Belgium’s intelligence services as early as June this year, officials said on Thursday. The list of 85 individuals included alleged Paris ringleader
PARIS (Reuters) – Paris airports have seen a reduction in traffic since the attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital this month, while security has been expanded, a senior executive said. “We are seeing an impact on traffic
Eagles of Death Metal, the California band onstage at the Bataclan in Paris when terrorists began their attack two weeks ago, have broken their silence about what happened that night.
French President Francois Hollande on Thursday will hold talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as part of his diplomatic marathon to forge a broader coalition against Islamic State jihadists in the wake of the Paris attacks. The French president will
Europe must work to keep the dream of the passport-free Schengen zone alive, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders (pictured above) said Wednesday, adding it would be a priority for his country as it takes over the EU presidency. The Netherlands holds
Pundits expected the terrorist attacks in Paris to shove the GOP’s primary race towards national-security debates and to boost the experienced pols, including Sen. Marco Rubio.
Retired NBC anchor Tom Brokaw says, “It’s immoral for a democracy to send 1 percent of its population in a uniform into harm’s way over and over again.”
A high school in one of the largest school districts in the nation, Houston ISD, says that an Islamic State recruiting homework assignment “teaches critical and analytical thinking skills using current events.” The assignment was given to ninth graders one school day after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
UK Independence Party (UKIP) Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall has told the European Parliament that the West must be prepared to work with countries such as Russian and China if it is to defeat the “real threat in the world today”
Brussels struggled to get back to normal on Wednesday after four days at the highest possible terror alert with schools reopening and the metro partially back in service. Closed since Monday, schools and universities reopened despite the alert still remaining
As tensions build between Turkey and Russia following the destruction of a Russian warplane by Turkish F-16s Tuesday morning, Russian state outlet RT.com reports that a missile cruiser has been deployed off the Syrian coast, with orders to “destroy any target posing danger.”
The worldwide number of annual terrorist deaths has more than quadrupled since President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. Deaths from terrorism increased 80 percent last year to an all-time-record of 32,658 people killed, compared to 18,111 in 2013.
U.S. President Barack Obama has today called for the European Union (EU) to implement legislation which would require airlines to share passenger data with government bodies across the political bloc, as well as with each other, in an effort to
A device which appears to be a belt of explosives has been found discarded in a pile of rubbish in a suburb south of Paris. Investigators believe it may have been abandoned by the last remaining fugitive terrorist involved in
