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In a file picture taken on February 28, 2012 a motorist fills up at the gas pump in a gas station of the French northern city of Lille. AFP
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Armed French police stand guard outside a commercial center in Nice. Reuters
Eiffel Tower Evacuated in Safety Drill Confusion, Major Events Cancelled
Paris’ Eiffel Tower was on Friday evacuated in error after an employee mistook a safety drill for a real incident, a police source said, as security fears compelled the authorities to cancel two main events. “It was a safety exercise drill, the sort that...Caption:
A passenger waits as Brazilian Air force soldiers patrol the Tom Jobim International airport ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 19, 2016. Reuters
ISIS Eyes Rio’s Olympics
Washington-The U.S. State Department confirmed on Tuesday that it has been providing security and intelligence assistance to the Brazilian government to help it confront any threat to the Olympic Games that are set to open in Rio de Janeiro this week. The revelation...Caption:
Michael Delefortrie, who joined a terrorist group in Belgium
and travelled to Syria to become a jihadi fighter, is pictured here
after his return to the E.U., leaving a court in Antwerp./PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANCOIS LENOIR / REUTERS
ISIS Aggravates Violence in West while Losing Control in Syria, Iraq
In line with the bloody operation in Nice, ISIS’s weekly magazine “al-Naba” published an editorial entitled “Crusaders- Illusions in Caliphate’s Era”, in which it urged from the change that will occur around the world after the announcement of Caliphate’s return, and...Caption:
France’s Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve (C) meets with Vice President of the French Muslim council CFCM Abdallah Zekri (L) and CFCM Head Anouar Kbibech (R) at the Ministry of the Interior on August 1, 2016 in Paris. Muslims across France were invited to participate in Catholic ceremonies on July 31 to mourn a priest whose murder by jihadist teenagers sparked fears of religious tension. Masses will be celebrated across the country in honour of octogenarian Father Jacques Hamel, whose throat was cut in his church on August 2 in the latest jihadist attack on France. “We are all Catholics of France,” said Anouar Kbibech, the head of the French Muslim council CFCM, in an expression of togetherness in the wake of the attack. / AFP PHOTO / JACQUES DEMARTHON /