War on Terror

Seventeen people have been killed and eight wounded in a "terrorist attack" in the centre of the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, the government says, reported BBC. 

Three gunmen opened fire on customers seated outside a restaurant, witnesses were quoted as saying.

French police shot and arrested a man on Wednesday suspected of deliberately ramming his car into a group of soldiers in a Parisian suburb hours earlier, injuring six of them in what the government called a deliberate attack.

Australian officials say they have arrested four men in connection with a plot to bomb an airplane, following Saturday evening raids. Police say the plot was “Islamic-inspired.”

During the first half of 2017 there 13 registered plans for terrorist attacks in Russia and 12 of them were prevented in an early stage of preparation. This was announced by the first deputy of the General prosecutor of the Russian Federation Alexander Buxman, reports AFP.

The total number of terrorist acts around the world last year declined as well as the number of victims, with the trend continuing for a second consecutive year. Reports TASS.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on July 18 Australia's domestic security bodies, including the police and the national spy agency, will be centralized under a single minister as Canberra tackles the rising threat of "lone wolf" attacks.

The anniversary of the 1992 killing by November 17 of 22-year-old Thanasis Axarlian reminds us how stamping out terrorism should be a key national goal. Its existence is something we've paid for very dearly.

The Islamic State stands on the brink of a twin defeat. Mosul, the largest city under its control, has almost entirely fallen from its grasp, and Kurdish-led forces are advancing into its de facto capital of Raqqa.

U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass has said Turkey should "avoid making the mistakes that the U.S. made" in its fight against terrorism, warning that an overly broad definition of terrorism could erode fundamental freedoms. 

Hugging outside the White House June 26, U.S. President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heralded an increasingly close strategic partnership as the U.S. branded a top militant from neighboring Pakistan as a "global terrorist."