While most European countries have been reluctant to take back their citizens who joined the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Syria and Iraq, the government of Kosovo has taken a different path by repatriating dozens of its people with plans to reintegrate them into society.
Even if violent attacks are now mostly concentrated around the border of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the unstable area subject to terrorism covers a huge area — equivalent to half of Europe or the United States — and is spread over five countries…. Because it involves such a huge territory, and because Europeans simply do not have the air support and intelligence capabilities of the United States, American support in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel is critical.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is starting deployment of troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and in line with agreements relating to maritime border demarcation and enhanced security cooperation.
La secrétaire générale adjointe aux Affaires politiques de l’ONU, Rosemary DiCarlo, a exprimé mercredi lors d’un entretien avec le président nigérien Mahamadou Issoufou à Niamey les préoccupations de son institution devant la détérioration de la situation sécuritaire au Niger et dans la région, a-t-on appris jeudi de source officielle.
Les experts et les ministres de « l’Initiative d’Accra » ont réaffirmé leur détermination à combattre le trafic de cigarettes qui est devenu une importante source de financement du terrorisme et d’autres réseaux criminels en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Turkey has intervened in Libya’s internecine civil war in an effort to prop up the increasingly beleaguered Government of National Accord (GNA).
A Danish man who is serving eight years in a Spanish jail for joining ISIS in Syria has claimed he was actually working for Denmark’s intelligence services.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is threatening action in both Libya and Syria as rhetoric ramps up in the face of looming regional setbacks and growing frustrations with Moscow.
A handful of Serbs have returned to live in Prizren in Kosovo after fleeing at the end of the war in 1999 – but while there is no more threat of violence, the returnees have found themselves struggling to survive economically.
People who were jailed for supplying the Kosovo resistance with weapons for an armed uprising when the country was under Yugoslav rule are angry because they do not qualify for benefits as former political prisoners.