On March 11, Spain marks 20 years since Europe’s worst Islamist attack when militants claiming to be acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda bombed commuter trains in Madrid, killing 192 people and wounding nearly 2,000 others. The perpetrators said the attack was revenge for Spain’s role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. A decade later, jihadists invoked the West’s intervention against the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria to unleash a new wave of […]
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German police kill Afghan teen after train axe attack
BERLIN , Germany (AFP) — German police shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan refugee late Monday after he attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding three people in what one official said was a “probable” Islamist attack. Several other people were also injured in the assault on a regional train near the southern city of Wuerzburg, police said, adding that the teenager was killed as he tried to flee. Joachim Herrmann, the […]





