by CBBSS | Jul 26, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Two attackers who said they were from the Islamic State stormed a church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France, killed an 84-year-old priest and took four other people hostage, the BBC reports. Read original...
by CBBSS | Jul 26, 2021 | International News and Analysis
A Reuters investigation finds the black market for arms, including heavy weapons, is booming in Eastern Ukraine. Weapons being smuggled out of Eastern Ukraine are ending up in Russia’s North Caucasus, the Middle East and elsewhere. Some of the arms are being...
by CBBSS | Jul 26, 2021 | International News and Analysis
The Russian government has been implicated in a hack that leaked 20,000 U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails and led to the resignation of the DNC chairwoman, who was exposed as a blatant Hillary Clinton supporter. A piece in The Moscow Times suggests the...
by CBBSS | Jul 25, 2021 | International News and Analysis
The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people Sunday night at a music festival in Ansbach, Germany left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS, CNN reports. Read original...
by CBBSS | Jul 25, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Macedonian political parties have reached yet another EU/U.S.-mediated deal on setting conditions for early elections, but it would be no shock if this one falls through like the previous ones, a bne IntelliNews piece suggests. Read original...
by CBBSS | Jul 25, 2021 | International News and Analysis
A failed asylum seeker from Syria set off a bomb outside an open-air music festival in the German city of Ansbach, killing himself and injuring 12, the BBC reports. The bombing marked the third attack in Bavaria in one week. Read original...
by CBBSS | Jul 24, 2021 | International News and Analysis
As Russia prepares to host a conference of worldwide separatists — ranging from Hawaii and Texas to Scottish and Catalan — NBC News runs a piece examining Moscow’s interests in backing secessionists and ultranationalist movements in the West. Experts say Russia...
by CBBSS | Jul 23, 2021 | International News and Analysis
An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman killed nine people, and then himself, when he opened fire Friday evening in a busy Munich shopping mall, Reuters reports. The massacre was the third attack on civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The previous two were claimed...
by CBBSS | Jul 22, 2021 | International News and Analysis
A gunman opened fire at a Munich shopping center and killed several people, the BBC reports. Several other victims suffered injuries. On Monday, a migrant stabbed five people on a train in Bavaria. Read original...
by CBBSS | Jul 21, 2021 | International News and Analysis
A National Interest piece recounts the events in recent months and years that led to Turkey to developing close ties with Russia to then becoming enemies and now becoming friends again. The recent swings in Turkish-Russian relations have much to do with...
