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After more than ten years of anti-jihadist operations in the Sahel, the French army confirms its "pivot" to Eastern Europe, which has been on the front line since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, by creating a new command, "Europe", for…

The Romanian Foreign Intelligence (SIE) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs succeeded in releasing the Romanian Iulian Gherguț, taken hostage eight years ago by an Islamist group, in Burkina Faso. In the meantime he had ended up in…

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu has said on Wednesday he had general talks to his counterpart in Burkina Faso on the case of Romanian Iulian Ghergut, who was kidnapped in this country three years ago, revealing that Ghergut is…

The media unit of al-Qaeda’s Mali affiliate has released a proof-of –life video with six foreign hostages, among them Australian Arthur Kenneth Elliott, aged 82, Frenchwoman Sophie Pétronin and Romanian Iulian Ghergut, the SITE US centre…

The opening match of EURO 2016 between Romania and France on June 10 and the final of the competition on July 10, that will take place at the Stade de France, could be targeted by Islamist terrorists, the Bureau of the German police for…

Malian security forces have freed hostages after Islamist militants took at least 100 people hostage at a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako. At least 27 people have been killed. A hostage crisis at a luxury hotel in Bamako that claimed…

Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen who had been holding 170 people hostage. The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is popular with foreign businesses and…

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the veteran Islamist militant behind the Algerian gas field attack in 2013, has been reported killed in Libya. The US has confirmed he was the target of airstrikes at the weekend, Deutsche Welle reports. Mokhtar…

North African jihadist group Al-Mourabitoun said it was holding a Romanian mine worker who was kidnapped in Burkina Faso last month, in an audio message released Monday by Mauritanian media, timesofisrael.com informs. The Arabic…

A Romanian security guard employed by a mining company owned by businessman Frank Timis was kidnapped on Saturday in Burkina Faso by armed individuals, sources say. In turn, the site info-afrique.com, which quotes the correspondent in…