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Italy has reimposed border controls with Slovenia, citing the risk of militants entering the country. ... Deaths from Islamist assaults in Europe surged between 2004 and 2006, when attacks were ...
The 2020 TE-SAT by Europol describes jihadism as "a violent ideology exploiting traditional Islamic concepts". [2] Jihadists do this by exploiting the concept of jihad, which means 'striving' or 'exertion' but can also refer to religiously sanctioned warfare and aim to create an Islamic state governed exclusively by their interpretation of Islamic law.
Europe is seeing a rise of "Islamist terrorism" and all states are threatened, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a visit to Albania, after Islamist killings of a teacher in ...
The United Nations Security Council voted to authorize a Libyan no-fly zone. [1] Two days later, the French Air Force struck an armoured division and artillery pieces arrayed outside Benghazi, the de facto capital of the interim rebel governing authority, beginning international military operations in the Libyan theatre.
Arab Muslim forays into Europe began shortly after the foundation of Islam in the 7th century CE. Soon after the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, his community needed to appoint a new leader, giving rise to the title of caliph (Arabic: خَليفة, romanized: khalīfa, lit.
Arab leaders met in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Friday for the first time to formulate a response to President Donald Trump’s plan for the US to take ownership of Gaza, expel its ...
Muhammad Ahmad 1844–1885: A Muslim religious leader and militant in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Omar Mukhtar 1858–1931: A Libyan leader of the resistance against the Italian occupation forces in Libya. Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi 1882–1963: A Moroccan Berber leader, he fought against the French and Spanish occupations of Northern ...
Arab presence in Europe predates Islam, and became predominant during the eras of the Roman and Byzantine Empire.The Romans conquered the Nabatean Kingdom in the Southern Levant, and named the province Arabia Petraea, and led a failed invasion of Yemen and South Arabia and what they called Arabia Felix or "Happy Arabia".