Islamism

Greek authorities have arrested seven suspects wanted for alleged links to militant Islamist groups in the past three years, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis told Parliament on Tuesday.

It was the first time Thomas Haldenwang, president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, had hosted his agency's traditional symposium, reported DW. 

A Christian woman acquitted after eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy was released but her whereabouts in Islamabad on Thursday remained a closely guarded secret in the wake of demands by radical Islamists that she be publicly executed.

The largest ever anti-terror exercise in Greece will be held in December on the island of Crete, Kathimerini has learned.

AFP - Dutch police arrested seven men Thursday suspected of plotting to carry out a "major terrorist attack" at a public event using explosive belts and an AK-47 assault rifle, the public prosecutor's office said.

Pristina's Basic Court on Friday acquitted the former Imam of Pristina's Grand Mosque, Shefqet Krasniqi, of inciting terrorism and national, racial and religious hatred, and of tax evasion.

Several people had claimed that Krasniqi's sermons and lectures prompted their relatives to go and fight for Islamist extremists in Syria.

Saudi Arabia's mighty crown heir Prince Mohammed bin Salman has included Turkey in the "triangle of evil" along with radical Islamist groups and Iran, the electronic edition of the Greek newspaper Protothema reports. That is what the Egyptian Al-Shourok reported on Wednesday

The European Union is set to double its funding for a multi-national military operation in West Africa’s Sahel region to counter Islamist insurgencies, EU diplomats said, part of a broader effort to fight militants and people traffickers.

The trial of Salah Abdeslam resumed in Belgium yesterday, but the last surviving Paris attacks suspect was absent after he refused to return to court.

French President Emmanuel Macron led a somber tribute on Jan. 7 to the 17 victims of attacks in Paris three years ago that marked the first of a wave of deadly Islamist assaults in France.