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Two teenage girls from Nice arrested over terror plot

Two teenage girls from the French city of Nice are being held on suspicion of planning an attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French...

Why ISIS?

Understanding the psychology of ISIS militants The recruits belonging to ISIS breeding grounds are usually captivated by their ideology but it is unclear why a...

Why ISIS?

Understanding the psychology of ISIS militants The recruits belonging to ISIS breeding grounds are usually captivated by their ideology but it is unclear why a...

French policewoman claims ministry pressured her to change Nice attack report

  A fresh crisis has hit France's government when a senior policewoman claimed the interior ministry pressured her to alter a report into security at...

How the West can prevent Nice from becoming the ‘new normal’

Hours after a truck ploughed through a crowd in Nice, France, killing 84 people, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his policy against Islamic...

Islamic State inspired attacks aid militants at low cost

The Islamic State group has claimed several high-profile attacks in the West that it appears to have inspired rather than planned, sowing fear and...

Columnist receives backlash for criticising journalist wearing hijab

The press regulator has received more than 300 complaints about remarks by The Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie criticising Channel 4 News for using a...

France expected to extend emergency laws after Nice attack

France will Tuesday decide whether to extend the state of emergency for a fourth time, possibly until 2017, after a massacre in Nice that...

French Muslims feel fear, alienation after Nice attack

In the poor Nice suburb of Ariane, many Muslims feel their community is being unfairly blamed for the Bastille Day attack that killed 84...

This timeline shows how terrorism in West compares to rest of...

The recent attack on Bastille Day celebrations in Nice is the third mass-casualty assault to hit France in 18 months, and the largest single...

Nice attack: The victims came from at least 12 countries, including...

Victims of the Nice truck attack included three generations of a family out for a stroll, a Frenchman protecting his pregnant wife and a...

France attacker visited site twice with truck

Tunisian attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel visited the Nice promenade with his rented truck on the two days before he rammed the vehicle into a crowd,...

Islamic State claims Nice massacre

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the truck attack that killed 84 people in Nice on France’s national holiday, the media reported on...

4 people in custody after Nice attack

Four men believed to be linked to the Tunisian who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in...

Investigators piece together picture of Nice truck attacker

Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was often seen drinking beer and never attended the small mosque near his home, other residents of his home district told AFP.

World leaders react to Nice ‘terrorist’ attack

Politicians from around the world have reacted with horror after a truck smashed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at...

French President Hollande says attack undeniably of ‘terrorist nature’

French President Francois Hollande said Thursday’s lethal attack on the southern city of Nice was clearly a ‘terrorist’ assault and that the state of...