Islamic terrorism

Gunmen launched an attack at a hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali, in an apparent attempt to take hostages on Friday.

The attackers targeted the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of the capital, which is popular with expats working in Mali.

The police has surrounded the area and is blocking the roads leading into the neighbourhood, the BBC informs.

French President Francois Hollande will meet his counterparts from the United States and Russia next week to discuss action against the Islamic State group in the wake of November 13 multiple terror attacks in Paris, global newswires reported.

Hollande will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on November 24 and with Vladimir Putin on November 26.

German police arrested two women and a man in connection with Friday's attacks in Paris, which had claimed the lives of 129 people and left hundreds injured.

The arrests were carried out in the town of Alsdorf, northeast of the city of Aachen, Deutsche Welle reports.

Special units were deployed to conduct the operation, with the arrests occurring at a job centre.

The Institute for Economics and Peace said Tuesday that the number of people killed in terrorist attacks around the world rose 80 percent last year.

The Global Terrorism Index found that 32,685 people were killed by terrorist attacks in 2014, an increase from 18,111 deaths in 2013. The rise in deaths from terrorism is the largest increase on record.

The first attacker in Paris carnage identified by French authorities is 29-year-old Omar Ismail Mostefai who had been known to police but had never been imprisoned, AFP reported.

The premier of the German region of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, on Saturday said they suspected that a Montenegrin national arrested last week with weapons in southern Germany was linked to the Islamist terrorists who killed more than 128 people in Paris on Friday night.

"There is reason to believe that this is possibly linked" to the attacks, Seehofer said.

Three French Islamic militants have urged their fellow countrymen to kill the enemies of Allah, urging people to “Spit in their faces and run over them with your cars” in a 7-minute long propaganda video that urges violence. The video shows men symbolically burning their French passports while clutching assault rifles and knives.

Dozens of ISIS-connected suspects, including 24 aged under 18 years, were being trained in Turkey for the Islamic State in preparation for operations in Syria and Iraq.

ISIS released pictures of their new gold dinar coins; the silver dirham and copper fulus claiming their goal was to break the capitalist world! The irony is that the brutal Islamist terrorist state still pay their jihadist murderers in US dollars! The currency will hold value only within the ‘borders’ of the pseudo caliphate state, as ISIS is a terrorist group.

Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic on Thursday said that Croatia's role in the global alliance against the Islamic State was not a factor behind ISIS's - unconfirmed - killing of Tomislav Salopek.