ISIL offensive is throwing Iraq into chaos: the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, having started a heavy guerrilla against Iraqi government in early June, turned Iraq into a black hole from which nothing can escape.
Anonymous sources in Nigeria said they had had contact with European governments and not for the search of the kidnapped girls from neighboring groups to Boko Haram .
In particular, the U.S., Britain and France have already sent in the area affected military specialists , investigators and former military elite units now used for their previous experience in the liberation of the hostages.
On Saturday 17, French President François Hollande hosted a high level summit in Paris, welcoming his political counterpart from Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Chad[1] in order to address the Boko Haram issue, the Islamic fundamentalist group that has attracted world attention on itself kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls in north-eastern Nigeria last month.
What happened to the European willingness to intervene in Central African Republic to solve the humanitarian crisis? Hard to say, but it seems that things are not going as they were intended to. On the 10th of February the European Union Council authorised the peacekeeping military mission EUFOR RCA[1] but nothing concrete has been achieved yet.
The Olympic Committees of at least 5 European countries besides the U.S. have received terrorist threats before the games in Sochi.
Despite assurances by the Russian authorities , letters containing terrorist threats delivered to the Olympic Committees of Italy , Hungary, Germany , Slovenia and Slovakia have caused alarm and caused some nervousness in relation to security.
The protests in Ukraine started at the end of November exactly November 21 when President Yanukovych has arbitrarily set aside a long-awaited trade agreement that would " depth " ties with the EU and called on the contrary to what the people wanted , greater support to Russia. This sparked a series of popular demonstrations pro EU have gradually increased in number and intensity.
More than a year after the military intervention by French in Mali, many issues related to the security environment of the entire region remain open. Although the terrorist groups operating in the Sahel have suffered some heavy defeats, they maintain a high ability to strike Western targets and continue to retreat in areas with poor control from the local governments - such as the south-west of Libya - and to strengthen the networks of their organizations.
The most populous among the Arab countries , Egypt enters the new year 2014 with the deepest divisions in the social sphere and with the greatest bloodshed that have ever occurred during its modern history.
Egypt is not new to " civil violence " has in fact been abused for decades all over the assassination of Anwar Sadat by an Islamist in 1981 , attacks against tourist sites in 1990, today perhaps again at risk.
Kamikaze woman in the former Stalingrad Volgograd in Southern Russia: Oksana Aslanova was detonated inside the train station , 18 dead and 50 wounded - a threat to the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
A great humanitarian crisis is still erupting in Central African Republic. The whole Country has fallen into chaos and civilian population is the first victim of the ongoing clashes between the Christian and Muslim paramilitary militias. France has already intervened supporting an African Union peacekeeping mission but, at present, the 1600 French military units running Sangaris operation are far from reaching their goal: disarming the militias, bringing them to peace-talk and consequently restoring order and security.
