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The inability of US forces to eliminate al-Qaeda networks in Iraq helped it reorganize as ISIS after Barack Obama withdrew troops in 2011.
Prosecutors have accused the German-Afghan dual national of passing information to an Iranian intelligence service.
It follows weeks of confusion and contradictory statements over the future of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS.
Asked about Gonen Segev’s claim he was acting with the knowledge of Israeli intelligence services, a Ministry of Defense official sent BuzzFeed News a poop emoji in response.
Two Dutch nationals of Iranian descent were murdered in 2015 and 2017.
French police mounted a massive operation to keep the Strasbourg shooter from sneaking across the borders with Germany and Switzerland. There's no evidence that he tried to do that.
Chérif Chekatt, whom French officials said shot 15 people in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday, was still at large Wednesday as Europe declared its highest level of alert in two years.
Several others were injured in the attack, and authorities are investigating it as terrorism.
British authorities have asked one of the world’s best-known experts on ISIS to limit access to his blog.
A series of leaks raises the question of whether French authorities can be trusted to protect sensitive information.
Before Sebastian Gorka was an adviser to President Donald Trump, he was a man with a dream to rise to the top of Hungarian politics. It didn’t quite work out.
In a secretive industry, the Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube has had three very public screwups in recent years.
‘Ndrangheta is less well known than other Italian crime organizations, such as the Sicilian La Cosa Nostra or the Naples-based Camorra. But it controls the cocaine traffic in Europe.
Europe’s intelligence officers fear Trump’s erratic statements and tweets could expose their secrets. “Our leadership might be less willing to share important information that's sensitive for fear of seeing it on Twitter,” an official told BuzzFeed News.
A small, well-organized ISIS cell has been at work in the heart of Europe for years, recruiting criminals, exploiting freedom of movement, and evading counterterrorism efforts. This spring and summer, as multiple attacks rocked Europe, Mitch Prothero spoke to the people shuttling between investigating the crimes that had already happened, while struggling to prevent new ones.
European counterintelligence officers say Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos's meetings with Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos before and after the election should alarm US investigators. And Papadopoulos isn't the only official he managed meetings with.
The announcement of the investigation came as UN weapons inspectors explained why they have not made it to the site of the most recent suspected chemical attack.
Sources tell BuzzFeed News that US commandos have engaged in combat with ISIS during a secret deployment to southern Syria that has them living alongside the rebels they’re instructing.
In recent years, the advent of photo recognition technology and the growth of CCTV surveillance has made international hit squads easier to detect.
Daniel Zagury has evaluated dozens of suspects for French courts, including Salah Abdeslam, who was sentenced by a Belgian court to 20 years in prison Monday. What he's learned is that the most talkative ones are the most dangerous.