First Independent Mena Newspaper
Spanish security forces early Tuesday arrested a Moroccan man on the island of Mollora. The man is accused of having links with terrorist organizations. Spanish authorities did not disclose the name of the suspect accused of coordinating possible terror attacks in Spain and across Europe. A statement by the Interior Ministry also accused the man […]
Two EU drivers have been reportedly fired after IS propaganda CDs were allegedly found with them. The discovery prompted the EU to take a recent resolution to create its own team of drivers, reports say. German newspapers “Der Spiegel” relayed by French “l’Express” reported over the week-end that IS propaganda CDs were found with two […]
German authorities have arrested three young men suspected of giving money to IS sympathizers, ready to join the terrorist group in Syria and Iraq at the time German authorities fear infiltration of IS militants in the army ranks, reports say. The three men, a 25-year old German and two Turkish citizens aged between 20 and […]
French intelligence agencies are recruiting informants in Morocco and other Maghreb countries part of efforts to beef-up their anti-terrorism squads as terrorist threats continue to loom on the country in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of last November 13. After the Paris attacks, the French Ministry of Defense decided to be more vigilant and […]
An Italian newspaper has revealed that Moroccan intelligence services had sent warnings to Belgian authorities about terrorist attacks at sensitive places including nuclear facilities one week before the Brussels attacks which killed 31 people. Milan-based Libero Quotidiano revealed that Moroccan secrete services, on the basis of intelligence from a source based at the border between […]
Two explosions hit the Brussels airport Tuesday morning while another explosion struck the Maelbeek Metro station, near EU headquarters an hour later. The two terror attempts killed 34 people and injured scores of others. According to a provisional toll, the airport blasts killed 14 people and injured 81, while 20 people lost their life in […]
Sky News Wednesday announced it got hold of an enormous and significant cache of intelligence made of tens of thousands of documents containing the names and details of 22,000 IS fighters. The haul of the documents according to the British media was handed over by a disillusioned former member who had stolen the documents on […]
IS group is planning major, Paris-style attacks in the UK and may choose the Queen’s Birthday celebrations as target events to strike, Britain’s top anti-terror officer warned on Tuesday. Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley stated that IS is aiming at the UK and that intelligence gathered revealed that the expanding group is determined to […]
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi Sunday ruled out sending Italian troops to Libya as suggested by American envoy to Rome who indicated that Italy could send 5,000 troops to help fight IS in divided Libya. Speaking at a talk show, Renzi dismissed the allegations that Rome was ready to parachute troops in war-torn Libyan to […]
Since 2000, 33 pc of lone actor terrorist acts committed in Europe have been motivated by extreme right-wing beliefs, says a new study published by London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Entitled “Countering Lone-Actor Terrorism,” the study, led by RUSI and a consortium of policy institutes including Chatham House, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) […]