Europe

Hundreds of refugees from the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya this week mounted a small, and perhaps fruitless, protest on the Polish border with Belarus, seeking political asylum in the European Union from persecution at home. The demonstration, a sit-in in the transit zone between the Belarusian and Polish borders, was an attempt to return media attention to […]

Down this street, on the whole, everybody is quite friendly and says good morning so for something like this to happen is totally out of the ordinary.

Security concerns increased this week after it emerged a rescue boat operating in the southern Mediterranean had been shot at and boarded by armed men.

STUTTGART, Germany — The Army is using improved explosive detecting gear at garrisons throughout Europe to intensify the military’s force protection and guard against a wave of terrorist attacks that have stretched from France and Belgium to Germany. “Today’s operating environment has changed and we must change with it — fielding new technology and adapting […]

A “franchise model,” whereby large criminal organizations contract local groups along trafficking routes to Europe, giving these networks access to drugs, contacts and information about how to transport the product.

“Jihad is not only in Islamic State, it is everywhere,” one message said.

This is no longer about intelligence reconnaissance, but rather this is increasingly being used for intelligence repression.

Sometimes nature will just flip you off, and you’re in the mud and crud with nowhere to go but further down no matter how many times you rock back and forth.

The M4 was the most produced American tank during World War II, with 50,000 units made. It was nicknamed Sherman by the British-it was distributed through a U.S. war supply program to Allies including the British Commonwealth-after William Tecumseh Sherman, an American general in the Union Army during the U.S. civil war. This model was restored by the museum and is in running condition.

Heightened military presence on frontier comes amid new tensions over contested Crimea

Two Turkish sailors were jailed for a total of 42 years on Friday after their attempt to smuggle a huge haul of cocaine into Europe was thwarted, partly due to some swift international co-operation between Britain and Tanzania. Some 3.2 tonnes of cocaine, the biggest class A drug find ever made in Britain, was found […]

A terrorist attack has occurred every 84 hours and over half of them are outside of major cities.