The Belgian government fears terrorist attacks involving weapons and explosives. The maximum level of terrorist threat was introduced in the capital. There has been a warning that terrorists may launch attacks “in various places in Brussels,” said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. “This decision was made after ...
Mali's intelligence officers, with the help of American and French colleagues, completed a seven-hour operation to free the hostages taken by terrorists at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the capital, Bamako. According to a UN spokesman, 27 of the 170 hostages were killed. Among them, as confirmed in the State Department ...
The head of the Synodal Department for Relations between Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, said that in some cases the introduction of the death penalty is possible, but it is better to do without it. “It is better to do without the death penalty, but there are situations when the threats to society are too strong and it...
The terrorist organization Islamic State has published a video threatening terrorist attacks in New York. The footage shows bombs and suicide bombing training, as well as New York City landmarks such as Times Square. The Islamic State views America as its main adversary and often threatens it with attacks. “Some of the videos are not new, but they confirm the message ...
The alleged organizer of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Abdelhamid Abaud, was killed during a special operation by French special forces that took place on November 18 in the Saint-Denis area. According to the prosecutor of Paris, François Molen, Abaud was identified among the dead. I had to identify him by fingerprints, since the body is strong ...
In Saint-Denis, a nearby suburb of Paris, on the morning of November 18, seven people were detained on suspicion of involvement in terrorist attacks that killed 129 people. During a special operation, a woman with a suicide belt was blown up, and the police entered into a shootout with the suspects. French law enforcement agencies were looking for Abdelhamid Abaud in Saint-Denis - presumably, it was he who organized the attacks. Did he succeed ...
Governors began to refuse to accept Syrian refugees in their states after a series of attacks in Paris. Already 18 governors have made such statements, most of them represent the Republican Party. In particular, the governors of Texas, Indiana and Illinois announced a temporary refusal to accommodate refugees. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said he wanted to ...
The reason for the crash of the Russian A321 plane over Sinai was a terrorist attack with an improvised explosive device with a capacity of up to one kilogram of TNT. This was announced by the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the transcript of which was published ...
Last weekend, representatives of the G20 countries met in Austria and Turkey. The talks took place against the backdrop of the terrorist attacks in Paris, the main subject for discussion was the situation in Syria. All participants agreed that the civil war in the country led to the transformation of the Islamic State (IS) into a global terrorist threat. In an article for Bloomberg ...
The terrorist attack that took place at the Stade de France in Paris could have killed tens of times more people. If a suicide bomber had entered the stands and blown himself up, there would have been panic in the stadium, and there would have been more casualties from the stampede. "Islamic...