Killing Twice for ISIS and Saying So Live on Facebook Alissa J. Rubin and Lilia Blaise, The New York Times  14 June 2016 Image: Police officers at the crime scene a day after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a police captain in Magnanville, France, on Tuesday. CreditThibault Camus/Associated Press PARIS — He stabbed an off-duty police officer and left him bleeding to death on his own doorstep. He forced his way inside the home and stabbed and

France Braces for Threatened Islamic State Attack on Euro Soccer Tournament James McAuley, The Washington Post 8 June 2016 Image: Soldiers patrol outside a fan zone ahead of the UEFA 2016 European Championship in Nice, France, June 8, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) PARIS — As fans await Friday’s kickoff of the 2016 UEFA Euro soccer tournament — among the most anticipated and popular sporting events in Europe — French

In France, an Uncertain Future for Jews James McAuley, The Washington Post 9 May 2016 image: Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, says that Jews in France feel that they are looked upon as second-class citizens. (Michel Euler/AFP/Getty Images) PARIS — France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, and its most troubled. A wave of anti-Semitic violence in recent years has shaken Jews

As Men Return From Syria, Europe Weighs Security vs. Civil Liberties Adam Nossiter, The New York Times 26 April 2016   Image: French police officers, conducting a raid near Strasbourg in 2014, detained a man suspected of receiving jihadist training in Syria. CreditJean Francois Badias/Associated Press   PARIS — Ten young Muslim men, bored by a mundane life in France and haunted by a “feeling of uselessness,” as one put it, were seduced

E.U. Migrant Proposals Aim to Overhaul Asylum Rules James Kanter, The New York Times 06 April 2016   Image: Migrants on the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday. CreditPetros Giannakouris/Associated Press     BRUSSELS — Days after a wave of deportations of migrants arriving in Europe from Turkey, the European Union’s executive arm proposed a new quota system for members accepting asylum seekers to ease the burden on the nations confronted

Calais Migrants Continue to be Treated with a Lack of Humanity Abbie Martin, CapX 24 March 2016   Image: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images   During my time in Calais, I have been horrified by the lack of media attention to blatant human rights breaches only 22 miles from Kent. People who have run away from almost certain death in the belief that they will be safe and valued in Europe have instead been met with tear gas and beatings. There

France - National Assembly eliminates media controls from state of emergency law Reporters Without Borders 20 November 2015 Reporters Without Borders welcomes the amendment passed yesterday by the National Assembly eliminating all media censorship provisions from the 1955 law that regulates states of emergency in France. The amendment was adopted shortly after the National Assembly approved a three-month extension to the state of emergency that President

France to press for U.N. support for Africa force to fight Boko Haram Abdoulaye Massalaki, Reuters 22 February 2015   NIAMEY (Reuters) – France will support a bid by the African Union to win the backing of the U.N. Security Council for its five-nation force fighting Islamist militant group Boko Haram, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday. Fabius spoke on a tour of Chad, Cameroon and Niger, countries that have launched operations

Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris? Nicholas Kristof, New York Times 7 January 2015   The French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo skewers people of all faiths and backgrounds. One cartoon showed rolls of toilet paper marked “Bible,” “Torah” and “Quran,” and the explanation: “In the toilet, all religions.” Yet when masked gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris on Wednesday with AK-47s, murdering

Marriage and Martyrdom: How ISIS is Winning Women By Vivienne Walt, TIMES At least 300 women have tried to join Isis from Europe and the U.S. Last March 11, was a normal Thursday morning for the Ali Mehenni family, or so Kamel Ali Mehenni thought when he dropped off his 17-year-old daughter Sahra at the train station on her way to school. It was only that evening, when Sahra failed to meet her father at the station, that it became clear something