Moscow has “warned” Washington that bilateral diplomatic relations will be severely damaged, possibly even severed, if the US includes Russia on its list of “state sponsors of terrorism”, a senior Russian official said on Friday. of diplomacy, Alexander Darchiev, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. Mr. Darchiev, the head of the North American […]
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Al-Zawahri Killing: US Warns Against Potential Resurgence of Anti-US Attacks
Washington warned on Tuesday against a possible resurgence of “terrorist acts” against US citizens or US interests abroad after al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri was killed overnight in a CIA UAV strike in Kabul. “The State Department believes there is a heightened risk of anti-American violence following the death of Ayman al-Zawahri on July 31, 2022,” […]
Al-Qaeda leader Al-Zawahri killed in US airstrike in Afghanistan
Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader of al-Qaeda, was killed overnight Saturday-Sunday in a US airstrike in the Afghan capital Kabul, it was announced on Monday night (local time; in the early hours of today Greek time) US President Joe Biden, a development that marks a new heavy blow for this […]
Bataclan, life imprisonment in Salah Abdeslam. 19 of the 20 defendants sentenced
“Incompressible” life sentence for Salah Adbeslam, the only survivor of the commando of 10 terrorists who on 13 November 2015 carried out a series of attacks in Paris, especially inside the Bataclan, killing 130 people. This was decided by the Paris judges, after 10 months of hearings. This is the harshest penalty provided for by […]
France: Jihadist Salah Abdeslam sentenced to life in prison for 2015 attacks in Paris
Salah Abdeslam, the main accused in the jihadist attacks of November 13, 2015 in France, was sentenced tonight to unchanged life imprisonment by the Special Court of Appeal of Paris. The five judges accepted the proposal of the anti-terrorism prosecutor, who had requested the imposition of this rare sentence, on the basis of which it […]
France: ‘No’ to court extradition of 10 former terrorists in Italy
The Paris Court of Appeals today rejected Rome’s request to extradite ten Italian far-left former terrorists who have been living as fugitives in France for more than thirty years. These are people who have been convicted in Italy for armed action or participation in murders. According to the Italian press, the French judiciary based its […]
Turkey: 16 Kurdish Journalists Imprisoned for PKK ‘Journalistic Participation’
Sixteen journalists in Turkey were jailed today in Diyarbakir, in the Kurdish-majority southeastern part of the country, for “participating in a terrorist organization”, according to an AFP ruling. Twenty journalists working for media and production companies affiliated with the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were arrested on June 8th for “participating in the press” of […]
Italy: Pakistan’s network of alleged terrorists dismantled
An anti-terrorism operation coordinated by Europol in Italy and elsewhere in Europe has allowed the dismantling of a Pakistani network in connection with an attack in 2020 in front of the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Italian police announced today. The operation, co-ordinated by the Genoa prosecutor’s office in northern Italy and […]
Five entities have been removed from the US list of ‘terrorist’ organizations
The US State Department has removed five entities from its list of “terrorist” organizations, including one related to the Basque separatist group ETA, it said in a press release issued on Friday. ETA (“Homeland and Freedom” in the Basque language) was a nationalist, separatist organization operating mainly in the Basque Country, Spain and France, from […]
The United States has accused Cuba of not cooperating fully in the fight against terrorism
The Biden administration has re-included Cuba in its list of countries that the United States says it is “not fully cooperating” with in the fight against terrorism, sparking further tensions in relations between the two countries. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a final assessment published today in the US government newspaper, included Cuba among […]