A trove of communications from ISIS plots and activity in Europe reveals a mix of direct control and improvisation. After assembling suicide bomb vests for the attacks that slaughtered 130 people in Paris last November, Najim Laachroui went underground in his native Brussels. The 24-year-old explosives expert wasn’t just hiding from the biggest manhunt in…
Protests against the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the commander of Kashmiri separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen, turned violent in Indian-administered Kashmir in the north of the country when Indian forces opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who defied a curfew on Sunday, July 10. A total of 31 have been killed, with about 444 people injured. This is the disputed region’s…
Grief and terror go hand in hand in Turkey. EPA/Sedat Suna The deadly attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport came at a really difficult time for Turkey which has been hit by similar attacks with increasing regularity over the past year. There have now been more than a dozen similar attacks in the country since the…
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Recent terror attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka and Baghdad in which hundreds of people have been killed and on the eve of the Muslim celebration of Eid have revived the contentious question of the role of religion in provoking violence – and, more specifically, the assumption that Islam is in some way…
Thousands of Afghans flee increasing violence, instability and poverty in Afghanistan in the hope of a better life and future. According to Europe’s statistical agency, Eurostat, Afghans make up the second largest group of asylum seekers in Europe after Syrians. In 2015 alone around 64,000 asylum applications were filed by Afghans. Afghanistan’s national unity government was set up in…
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