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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.
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.
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.
In a secretive industry, the Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube has had three very public screwups in recent years.
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.
Friday’s G20 summit in Hamburg was the first time in 16 years that the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies had gathered in a city, and German authorities anticipated trouble. In the end, the clashes were milder than expected, thanks to tactics that isolated the most aggressive anarchists.
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.
Slovakia's Robert Fico was effectively forced to quit just weeks after the murders of Ján Kuciak and Martina KuÅ¡nÃrová, which have been blamed on the Calabrian Mafia.
Several others were injured in the attack, and authorities are investigating it as terrorism.
A breakthrough in the four-month-long manhunt for key suspect in the Paris attacks only came when Belgian officials asked the NSA for assistance, two investigators told BuzzFeed News. Read the full story here.