A year ago, two of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, brothers who were born, raised, and radicalized in Paris, fled the scene and took hostages at a printing factory outside Paris. The gunmen were shot dead by police.
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One year on from the Charlie Hebdo attacks, vulnerabilities have been exposed in Europe’s security apparatus.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hailed what he calls the “liberation” of Ramadi from Islamic State control. But his country still faces huge challenges to reclaim all of its territory.
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The latest Islamic State propaganda video that has spread through social media featured a new unnamed spokesman threatening the United Kingdom. CCTV America’s Jim Spellman reports.
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Turkish police on Wednesday detained two suspected Islamic State militants who were believed to be planning suicide attacks during New Year celebrations in central Ankara, officials said.
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Belgian authorities announced Tuesday they have arrested two men and seized military-type uniforms and Islamic State group propaganda in connection with a suspected plot to unleash holiday season attacks against police and celebrated locations in Brussels.
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A U.S.-led coalition has killed 10 Islamic State leaders in the past month with targeted airstrikes, including individuals linked to last month’s attacks in Paris according to a spokesman for the coalition.
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Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, drove Islamic State militants out of the center of Ramadi in Iraq on Monday. Military officials say the forces seized the main government complex there, and say insurgents are still operating in pockets of the city, west of Baghdad.
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Iraqi forces have retaken a former government compound in Ramadi from where Islamic State (IS) group militants have been resisting an army offensive, the military has said.
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In Afghanistan, government forces and British advisors are arriving on the front lines in Helmand Province, as the Taliban pin down security forces.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated his anger at Turkey for downing its fighter jet last month during his annual press conference. He said there were no prospects for a revival of the Russian-Turkish relationship and made it clear that Moscow is set on punishing Ankara.
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As many as 10 million people are now believed to be living under the control of the Islamic State.
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President Barack Obama on Monday said the U.S.-led coalition is making progress against Islamic State militants in both Iraq and Syria, as he delivered an update on the campaign aimed at reassuring Americans worried about the spread of extremism-fuel terrorism.
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A growing number of world leaders are now referring to the Islamic State as “Daesh.” Find out what it means, why they’re using it, and why some people — including many news organizations — will still refer to them as Islamic State.
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At issue for Washington this week is the idea that if ISIL isn’t defeated in its territory, it could risk more widespread terror plots in the United States.
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CCTV America’s Elaine Reyes spoke with Chris Grollnek, a leading expert on active shooting prevention.
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The United States is readying a new national terror alert system after a the mass shooting in California last week, and a rare primetime address by the U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday night. CCTV’s Jessica Stone reports.
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A man who allegedly screamed “this is for Syria” as he slashed a passenger’s neck in a London subway station had images associated with the Islamic State group on his mobile phone, prosecutors said Monday.
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In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama vowed Sunday night the United States would overcome a terror threat that has entered a “new phase” as he sought to reassure Americans shaken by recent attacks in Paris and California.
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Germany stepped up its contribution to the fight against the ISIL on Friday, with lawmakers overwhelmingly voting in favor of sending reconnaissance jets, a tanker plane and a frigate to provide broad non-combat support to the U.S.-led coalition performing airstrikes against the militants.
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The woman who helped her husband kill 14 people at a holiday banquet for his county co-workers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook using an alias, then deleted the messages before the attack, a U.S. law enforcement official said […]
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Mortars lit up the dawn sky when they were fired on a United Nations base in the northern Mali city of Kidal early Saturday, killing at least three people. The attack came eight days after Islamic extremists attacked a luxury hotel further south in the […]
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Syria’s Turkmen has come under the spotlight recently, after Turkey downed a Russian warplane near their territory. But who are they? And why is Turkey so protective of them?
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About half of Americans say they don’t want Syrian refugees to resettle in the United States. They fear ISIL terrorists will pose as refugees and enter the U.S. In 60 seconds, freelance editor and writer Elizabeth MacBride explains the reality of the situation.
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Pledging solidarity after the Paris attacks, President Barack Obama promised Tuesday to work with France and other allies to intensify the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State, saying America will not be cowed by the scourge of terrorism.
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10 days after the deadly and coordinated attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, investigators have found what appears to be an explosive vest in the suburb of Montrouge and they believe it may be linked to one of the terrorists on the run.
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What police force would start playing along with a practical joke when the capital is facing its highest state of alert and its most-wanted fugitive is still on the run? Right! This is surreal Belgium.
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19 raids, 16 arrests, but no sign of Belgium’s prime Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam on Sunday night. Police carried out house searches and raids in various parts of Brussels, Liege and Charleroi.
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The West Bank saw another series of deadly violence between Israelis and Palestinians. One Israeli woman was stabbed to dead, with the attacker shot and killed by authorities. This comes after Israel’s security cabinet has shut down and banned 17 affiliates of an Islamic organization.
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The attack on a Mali hotel claimed by al-Qaida may have been partly aimed at asserting the global terror network’s relevance as it faces an unprecedented challenge from the Islamic State group for leadership of the global jihadi movement.
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The heavily armed Islamic extremists who shot up a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, killing 19 people, timed their assault for the moment when guards would be the most lax, allowing them to easily blast their way past a five-man security team before turning their […]
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The city of Sinjar, Iraq is in ruins, but liberated. This town was formerly home to Islamic State, known as ISIL or Daesh, for over a year and served as a strategic link between Mosul, Iraq, to the east and Raqqa, Syria, to the west.
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The attacks in Paris are generating a particularly bitter response in the United States. Islamophobia is on the rise again, with citizens and politicians alike spewing hostile rhetoric. Many American-Muslims are comparing it to the atmosphere that developed after Sept. 11.
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On Friday, European interior and justice ministers unanimously backed France’s call for a fundamental revision of the Schengen open border zone to allow “systematic” controls on external borders.
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Heavily armed Islamic extremists seized dozens of hostages Friday at a Radisson hotel, but Malian troops, backed by U.S. and French special forces, swarmed in to retake the building and free many of the terrified captives. At least 20 people, including one American, were killed […]
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The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris.
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The Islamic State and other terrorist groups are turning to encrypted messaging services and the so-called dark web to spread their propaganda and possibly plot attacks.
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The Islamic State group has released a photo of the bomb it says was used to bring down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.
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A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week’s gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police said.
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In the wake of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, France’s President promised to “destroy” ISIL.
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The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at short notice due to the serious threat of an attack at the stadium in Hannover, Germany on Tuesday.
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The world’s attention might move quickly from one headline grabbing global atrocity to the next but for the victims of a terrorist attack the pain and suffering lasts a lot longer.
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A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service said Tuesday, telling President Vladimir Putin it’s now clear the bombing that killed 224 people was a “terrorist” act.
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The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris.
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Paris is a city still in a state of shock after the deadly attacks on Friday left 129 dead. French President Francois Hollande has vowed to destroy ISIL and has begun an intensified bombing campaign in Syria.
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French police, prosecutors and journalists have unveiled details about the men accused of carrying out rapid-fire attacks across Paris on Friday. Altogether, authorities say that three teams of attackers participated in the bloody assault, though the precise strength of each team hasn’t been made clear. […]
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French police raided 168 locations across the country and detained nearly two dozen people as authorities identified more members of a sleeper cell said to be behind the Paris attacks that killed 129 people.
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French President Francois Hollande vowed to attack the Islamic State group without mercy as the jihadist group admitted responsibility Saturday for orchestrating the deadliest attacks on France since World War II.
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The attackers worked in three synchronized teams, wearing matching suicide vests and carrying the same weapons. In an excruciating half-hour, they unleashed their terror.
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A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed as many as 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. President Francois Hollande pledged that France would stand firm against what […]
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