Terrorism

Balkan security services intensify co-operation against ISIL recruits

Balkan nations consider creating regional anti-terrorism centre

The controversial new security bill will "secure the fate of the resolution process," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, while also repeating that there is no room for any kind of bargaining along this process.

NATO is not considering establishing a no-fly zone in northern Syria, something Turkey has been calling for to alleviate security and humanitarian pressure on its southern border, one of the alliance’s top generals has told Reuters.

At least 95 people were killed in Syrian regime air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s self-proclaimed capital Raqa on Nov. 26, a monitoring group said in a new toll.
      
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 52 of the dead were civilians, but it had no word Wednesday on whether the others were jihadists or also civilians.

US Vice President Joe Biden in a telephone conversation on Tuesday congratulated Romania's President-elect Klaus Iohannis for the victory in the elections, noting the impressive voter turnout as a sign of a strong and healthy democracy, according to a White House release.

The first instance prosecutor’s office issued charges on Thursday against the unknown members of a little-known urban guerrilla group, Revolutionary Continuation, in connection with a bombing at the offices of JP Morgan Chase Bank in Athens in February 2010.

The charges were issued after the anti-terrorism squad sent its report to the prosecutor.

An Athens prosecutor on Wednesday ordered an investigation into claims by the owner of a street kiosk in the central district of Exarchia according to which a group of police officers roughed him up and tried to steal several bottles of water from the kiosk on the night of November 17 when a rally marking the 41st anniversary of a student uprising against the junta turned violent.

Serbia works to improve its anti-terrorism capabilities

U.S. prosecutors sent to Balkans "to help fight terrorism"

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is sending dozens of prosecutors to the Balkans, the Middle East, and northern Africa "to help track down jihadist fighters returning from Syria."