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MUNICH -- Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany delivered a strong rejoinder on Saturday to American demands that European allies pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and gave a spirited [...]

The article announces the start of trial for German military officer First Lieutenant Franco A. on May 20, 2021 as he was accused of far-right extremism.

The article reports on Austrian police have urged people to stay indoors as they hunt for suspects after a multiple gun attack in the capital Vienna that killed four people.

The article reports that London, England attackers slipped by despite of warnings. Topics discussed include the views of Usama Hasan, a former Islamic extremist, on physical altercation, the views of Jesse Morton, the informants of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on the extremist role and terrorist attack at the Big Ben in London, England.

The article reports on the identification of the two of the three suspects in the terrorist assault in London, England. The suspects include Khurum Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane wherein they killed seven people and injured dozens before they were shot and killed by the police. It notes that the attack was the third to strike Great Britain in three months with the participation of radicalized British Muslims who had been on the radar of law enforcement.

The article reports on the bombing taking place in Manchester, England carried out by Salman Abedi a British Muslim killing almost 22 people and wounding 116 more. Topics discussed include terrorist attack, terrorism, Islamist groups, suicide bombing attacks, victims of terrorism, Islamic State and killing of innocent people.

The article reports on the hunt for 22-year-old bomber Salman Abedi who was a suspected accomplice of the concert bombing in Manchester, England on May 22, 2017.

The article reports on the order of British Prime Minister Theresa May to put the nation on highest level of alert and deployed the military to work on the police over fear that another terrorist attack was imminent in the country. It notes the investigation conducted by police following the night bombing at a pop music concert that killed 22 people in Manchester, England. It also mentions the raid of the home of Salman Abedi, who was behind the attack and died in the blast.

The article focuses on the linkage between the city of Birmingham in England and Islamist extremism, the stigma of which local Muslim communities resent but also admit to the problem. Topics discussed include Khalid Masood, the man behind the London terrorist attack in March 2017, having stayed in the city for a year before the attacks, and more than one in five residents of the city identifying as Muslims.

The article discusses the terrorist organization the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's (ISIS's, or ISIL's) change in strategy of focusing terrorist attacks in regions beyond Iraq and Syria. An overview of ISIS's terrorist attacks against the Russian Metrojet airliner over the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, the November 13, 2015 attacks on Paris, France and their suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon is provided.

The article discusses problems with the French intelligence service's surveillance methods that were brought to attention after it was revealed that France stopped monitoring Islamist terrorists Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi prior to their attack on the offices of satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo." Topics addressed include a lack of consensus on how to balance counterterrorism surveillance measures with privacy concerns, as well as intelligence on Chérif Kouachi's time spent in Yemen.

The article discusses the implications of a terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo," noting that the attack could lead to increasing anti-Islamic sentiments throughout Europe. Topics addressed include anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment within far-right conservative political parties in Europe, as well as the National Front nationalist French political party.

The article presents the author's insights about the social condition in London, England, and mentions the resilience of Londoners against terrorism following the fire at Grenfell Tower building in West London.

The article focuses on the easy path of jihadists between Syria and Europe, including the connection of Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud with attackers in Paris, France. Topics include the number of French citizens and Germans believed to have joined the terrorist group Islamic State, mobilization of volunteer army of Sunni fighters by Islamic State, and terrorist Salah Abdeslam.

The article reports that two car bombs exploded in Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 26 people and likely many more. The bombs exploded near a government building and a United Nations office. The terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility. It was the worst terrorist attack since the civil war between the government and Islamic fundamentalist rebels in the 1990s.

The article reports on the focus of Europe on the emerging threats coming from small groups of terrorists following the attacks in Australia, Canada and France.

The article reports that many royal guards have been removed from pubic places in London, England due to terrorism.

The death of Osama bin Laden inspired many questions, but fewer answers on Tuesday: Could it lead to further erosion of support for foreign troops in Afghanistan and, subsequently, a faster withdrawal by NATO? And how should outside powers deal with Pakistan, whose president denied Western accusations that his nuclear-armed nation lacked what he called ''vitality'' in combating terrorism? ''There are lots of questions that need to be asked,'' Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said in a radio interview Tuesday. ''And we should be tough in asking those questions. But we should deal with what we do know. And we do know that the Pakistan political leadership is fighting terrorism. We do know that country has suffered.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the efforts to calm down passion in the wake of suicide bombings that hit Algiers, capital city of Algeria on December 11, 2007. Country's Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci urged people to calm, saying that the bombings would not lead to a civil war. He said that Algerians were united against terrorism. Two truck bombings had hit a United Nations compound and the government's Constitutional Council.

The article informs that Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has disclosed that people sympathetic to the Taliban had been active in the frontier regions near the border with Afghanistan. The prime minister accused the weak authority of the Afghan government. Aziz said that the core of the problem is in Afghanistan.

The article reports that 72 Muslim workers of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France were barred from the airport because they were suspected of having links to extremists. It is suspected that many of them were trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A dozen of other workers have been notified of being considered security risks.

Reports global developments related to politics and social condition. Plan of the European Union leaders to drop any mention of the bloc's planned expansion; Total number of deaths after a car bomb explosion in India; Initiatives undertaken by Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada to contain the increasing violence in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.

Reports on the detention of two Moroccan men on charges related to the Madrid train attacks by a High Court judge in Spain.

Reports that the man suspected of masterminding the March 11, 2004 train bombings was among the four men who blew themselves up during a police raid in Madrid, Spain. Identification of one of the bodies found in the apartment building; Investigation that has focused on the militant Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.

As reported in the article Spain's prime minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wants to signal his commitment to fight terrorism and show the U.S. that Spain remains a loyal ally. Zapatero has pledged to pull troops out of Iraq unless the United Nations assumes supervision of the occupation force there. On the other hand, he is also considering increasing the number of Spanish peacekeepers in Afghanistan, according to his Socialist Party officials. Zapatero has confirmed a campaign pledge to pull Spain's 1,300 troops out of Iraq.

The article discusses how after the Islamic State operatives struck Paris, France in November 2015, the group released prerecorded video of the killers and mentions how they stared into camera, waved serrated knives and warned Great Britain. Topics discussed include how Iran followed attacks in Britain by assailant who used an sport utility vehicle (SUV) to smash into pedestrians, violence in London, England and Terra, and techniques used by the frustrated attackers.

The article discusses the French President François Hollande's address to the French Parliament seeking an extension of France's state of emergency and constitutional amendments allowing for police raids without warrants, within the context of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France. An overview of the terrorism investigation of the Belgian suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud, including in regard his relationship with the terrorist organization the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or ISIL), is provided.

The article states that three teams of attackers from the militant organization Islamic State carried out simultaneous terrorist acts in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015. According to the article, French president François Hollande described the attacks as an act of war and said that France would retaliate. The article states that one of the alleged assailants may have entered Europe with a Syrian passport and that arrests of suspects were made in Belgium. It also discusses French participation in a military air campaign in Syria against Islamic State.

The article explores the bombing in Manchester, England during a concert by pop star Ariana Grande on May 22, 2017, dealing with topics including the concern whether more could be done to prevent the attack, efforts to find accomplices of the bomber, and extremism.

The article offers world news briefs as of February 11, 2014 including a confirmed case of polio in Afghanistan after 12 years, grenade attack at a movie theater in Pakistan killing 11 people and cancellation of Israel trip of British Prime Minister David Cameron to deal flooding in England.

The article reports on the terrorist attack held in Brussels in March 2016. It mentions the arrest of 29-year-old computer technician Reda Hame who was recruited by the Islamic State due to his ability of using an encryption program called TrueCrypt which is the first step in a process intended to mask communications with his ISIS handler back in Syria. Hame elaborates his training under the ISIS wherein one of the senior operatives demonstrated how to load a Kalashnokov rifle.

The article discusses the London, England terrorist attack of March 22, 2017 perpetrated by Khalid Masood, killing five people. Masood drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 40 people and stabbing a police officer before being shot dead. Other topics discussed include the background and radicalization of Masood, and militant group Islamic State praising Masood for the attack.

The article focuses on the terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015, conducted by the terrorist organization the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and the fate of the attacks' Belgian organizer Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The authors discuss a raid in the St.-Denis suburb of Paris that was conducted by French police on November 18 and the identities of two terror suspects that were killed in the raid.

The article discusses the French government's decision to deploy military personnel and police officers to guard certain sites in France after terrorist attacks on the office of satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" and a Jewish supermarket in Paris, France. Topics addressed include concerns within France about future attacks by Islamist militants, as well as the views of French defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

The article discusses the role of an intercepted conversation between Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of extremist organization Al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, leader of Al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate, in causing the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to issue a terror alert in August of 2013. Topics addressed include the closure of several U.S. embassies as a result of the threat of an attack, and U.S. counterterrorism policy in Yemen.