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Iran
Khamenei: Iran will never give up its nuclear program
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Germany
The Interior Ministry outlawed the “Waisenkinderprojekt Libanon” (Orphan Children Project Lebanon) as the group serves as a front for Hezbollah fundraising, recruits fighters for Hezbollah, and supports families of suicide bombers. The ban was announced after a five-year investigation. Security forces also raided the group’s properties in six states. The group’s membership is estimated at 80; about 1,000 Hezbollah supporters are thought to be residing in Germany.
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Germany
Ukraine Crisis Exposes Gaps Between Berlin and NATO
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Morocco
Moroccan king attends prayers led by reformed Salafi-jihadist
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Al Qaeda
World leaders urge more action to prevent nuclear terrorism
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Africa
US military presence in Africa growing in small ways
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France
Franco-German project to securely store stockpiles of arms in Libya
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Al Nusrah Front
German rapper, now jihadist still alive in Syria
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Germany
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is said to have curtailed operations with Turkey over suspicions that Turkish intelligence was involved the murder of three female Kurdistan Workers’ Party activists in Paris in January 2013. At the time of their deaths, two of the slain women were being investigated by German authorities for links to the PKK.
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Germany
UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon Discusses Syria
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Afghanistan
German Military Faces a Difficult Year in Africa and Afghanistan
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Germany
Emrah Erdogan, a German national of Turkish origin with ties to both al Qaeda in Pakistan and Shabaab in east Africa, was sentenced to seven years in prison. His brother Bunyamin, a would-be suicide bomber, was killed by a drone strike in 2010. Emrah was arrested in Tanzania in 2012 and is suspected of links to a bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as an al Qaeda plot against targets in Germany and Pakistan. Germany plans to provide more training to Malian troops and to relocate its troop transport air base from Senegal to Mali.
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France
Flow of Westerners to Syria Prompts Security Concerns
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Al Qaeda
European Spies Reach Out to Syria
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Germany
The government is becoming increasingly concerned about the flow of German jihadists to Syria; they are now said to number in the low hundreds. Demand for residence permits from former Afghan employees of the German military is rising, following the Taliban’s recent murder of a former interpreter. Of the 1,500 Afghans who were employed by Germany, only 184 have been approved for residency.
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The German jihadists’ colony in Syria
A “German Camp” that caters to training and recruitment and serves as a magnet to attract German-speaking jihadists from Europe has been established in Syria.
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Germany
From Soccer to Jihad: German Football Talent Killed in Syria
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Syria
As son heads to Syrian front, family in Germany plots kidnapping to bring him back
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European Union
Iranian nuclear talks end without a deal
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France
Anti-Semitism is on the rise, finds survey of European Jewish people
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European Union
In Spy Uproar, ‘Everyone Does It’ Just Won’t Do
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Germany
A classified German intelligence report said a “German camp” has been established in Syria for German-speaking jihadists and that German Islamists in Syria have set up media centers to foster recruitment. Eight German jihadists are thought to have died in Syria. The number of European jihadists in Syria has risen to about 1,000, much higher than the 250 estimated in late 2012.
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ISIS fighter from Kosovo praises jihad in Syria
German intelligence estimates that more than 1,000 Europeans, including 150 Muslims from Kosovo, are fighting against the Assad regime in Syria.
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Afghanistan
How Afghanistan Has Changed the Bundeswehr German Military
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France
France agrees to shelter 500 Syrian refugees, UN says
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Germany
Germany’s spy chief said that about 170 German Islamists have traveled to Syria for jihad, and warned that 50 have gone to Syria in recent months. Chancellor Merkel appears likely to win a third term in general elections today.
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Afghanistan
With pullout looming, NATO forces disassembling larger Afghan bases
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Germany
General Wieker, the head of the German military, told lawmakers that the influence of al-Qaeda linked forces within the Syrian opposition was becoming stronger and stronger. A German newspaper claimed that a German spy ship intercepted calls in recent months from Syrian commanders asking the Assad regime for permission to use chemical weapons but that the permission was repeatedly denied. Another German news report said that German intelligence and the CIA jointly tracked German Islamists from 2005 until 2010, when the cooperation ended.
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Germany
Gas Attack: Germany Offers Clue in Search for Truth in Syria
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Germany
US Is Prepared to Act in Syria Without Coalition
