Issued on: 01/10/2022 – 14:33 Burkina Faso awoke to fresh chaos Saturday, with the country facing its second coup in a year. Junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was toppled by junior officers who accused him of failing to address the numerous jihadist attacks on the impoverished and restive West African nation. Shops…
Belgium received 218 terrorist and extremist threats last year, according to the annual assessment of the country’s coordinating body for threat analysis (OCAM), published Thursday. According to the report, in 2021 the overall threat level remained on average at medium throughout the year. Just over 50 percent of threats were…
Issued on: 11/08/2022 – 11:28 A British man accused of being part of an Islamic State (IS) group kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” has been charged with terrorism offences after returning to the UK, police said Thursday. “A 38-year-old man has been charged with various terrorism offences following an…
Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region used the Chinese government’s 100-day crackdown on criminals and fugitives to target Uyghurs deemed “religious extremists” and “two-faced,” a police officer in a major city said. The campaign was rolled out by Wang Xiaohong, a close ally of Chinese President Xi Jinping who was…