Britain to hire 1,900 more spies to defend against Islamic State militants
BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) – Britain will boost its intelligence agency staff by 15 percent and more than double spending on aviation security to defend against Islamist militants plotting attacks from Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.
U.N. plans to move troops to Central African Republic from Ivory Coast
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Monday it plans to redeploy some 300 peacekeepers to Central African Republic from a U.N. mission in Ivory Coast in a bid to boost security ahead of the country’s planned December elections and a vi…
Colombia’s leftist ELN rebels free two soldier hostages
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist ELN rebels have freed two Colombian army soldiers held hostage for three weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday.
Obama rules out U.S. troops on ground to fight Islamic State
BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) – President Barack Obama ruled out a shift in strategy in the fight against Islamic State on Monday despite the deadly attacks in Paris, saying putting more U.S. troops on the ground as sought by his political critics “would be …
Islamic State threatens attack on Washington, other countries
CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.
Syrians in Raqqa fear new warplanes in crowded skies
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrians living under Islamic State rule in its de facto capital of Raqqa fear they will pay the price for the group’s Paris attacks with more air strikes.
G20 vows joint security steps after Paris attacks; no new strategy on Syria
BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) – World leaders vowed tighter border controls, more intelligence sharing and a crackdown on terrorist financing after the Paris attacks, but there was little sign at a summit on Monday of a dramatic shift in strategy against Isl…
Egypt kills 24 militants in central Sinai, security sources say
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces shot dead 24 Islamic State militants in central Sinai, 70 km (40 miles) from the crash site of a Russian airliner the group says it brought down, security sources said on Monday.
Guns, God and grievances – Belgium’s Islamist ‘airbase’
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – “A breeding ground for violence” the mayor of Molenbeek called her borough on Sunday, speaking of unemployment and overcrowding among Arab immigrant families, of youthful despair finding refuge in radical Islam.
Widen fight against Boko Haram to tackle climate change, migration: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The four countries fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in West Africa’s Lake Chad region should unite behind a broader strategy to ease the poverty and climate change that are spurring millions to migrate to Europe, a U.N. official sa…
