Foreign “Jihadist” growing risk to the region and their homeland

European Centre for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies – ECCI Career foreign fighters fuel conflict in the Middle East DW –   Author Lewis Sanders IV  – Thousands of foreign fighters have returned to their home countries after fighting with terror...

German intelligence can’t spy on foreigners outside Germany

European Centre for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies-Germany and Netherlands By Ben Knight-DW Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that monitoring the internet traffic of foreign nationals abroad by the BND intelligence agency partly breaches...

Germany has acted on Hezbollah.. Now the EU must follow

European Centre for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies-Germany and Netherlands By Josh Lipowsky- Counter Extremism Project Senior Research Analyst On April 30, Germany took the long overdue step of designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist group. It...

“ISIS”: Coronavirus won’t affect members if they participate in jihad!

European Centre for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies – ECCI ISIS tells followers they’ll be ‘immune’ from coronavirus if they fight in jihad Daily Star .Uk – The terrorist group says COVID-19 is a “painful agony” brought by...

Germany and Austria disagree over refugee rescue mission

European Center for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies in Germany and Netherlands. DW-Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz argued that Operation Sophia promoted human trafficking. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said that EU vessels beholden to bloc laws...