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Governor Withdraws Kansas from Resettlement Program
April 27, 2016
Citing concerns over gaps in the program's security vetting process, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has announced the withdrawal of his state's cooperation in the US government's refugee resettlement program.
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Officials Warn of Gaps in EU Terror Database
April 25, 2016
The Telegraph reports that EU and national officials are warning that differing government definitions of "foreign fighters" and diverging requirements on when to add a suspected terrorist in an EU-wide watch list threaten the ability of EU member states to detect the entry of jihadists through their borders.
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Observers: EU-Turkey Deal Could Import Kurdish Conflict
April 25, 2016
Critics of the recent migrant deal between the EU and Turkey, which seeks to return migrants who entered the EU illegally from Turkey in exchange for EU visa liberalization for Turkish nationals, warn that such visa liberalization could result in an importation of the Turkey-Kurdish conflict to EU countries as Kurdish minorities in Turkey flee persecution.
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Path of IS Bombers Spotlights Terror Threat in Europe
April 25, 2016
An article in The Washington Post describing the journey into Europe of two bombers in the November 2015 Paris terror attacks and two would-be bombers who were arrested in Austria demonstrates how the mass influx of migrants in Greece and open borders among EU member states have facilitated Islamic State ("IS") plots to infiltrate and attack European targets.
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OSCE Hosts Kazakhstan Seminar on Online Hate Speech
April 21, 2016
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently hosted a seminar for officials in Kazakhstan on how to promote free speech on the internet and how to counter online "hate speech" that might cause "hatred or intolerance of others."
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