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France: August 21 2015 Thalys train attack. Shooting and stabbing in train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. The incident was believed by French police to be an Islamist terrorist attack. [116] 0 5 Nigeria: August 28–30 Boko Haram members attacked three villages. 68 alone were killed in the village of Baanu. [117] 79 Nigeria: September 10
The murder was one of several attacks in France in recent years and the second terrorist attack in France during the 2020 trial, at which alleged accomplices to the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks were to be arraigned for terrorism targeting the cartoons' publishers. The Paty incident sparked debate in French society and politics.
Operation Barkhane ( French: Opération Barkhane) was a counterinsurgency operation that started on 1 August 2014 and formally ended on 9 November 2022. It was led by the French military against Islamist groups in Africa's Sahel region [ 22] and consisted of a roughly 3,000-strong French force, which was permanently headquartered in N'Djamena ...
Date. 21–25 November 2015. From 21 to 25 November 2015, the government of Belgium imposed a security lockdown on Brussels, including the closure of shops, schools, public transportation, due to information about potential terrorist attacks in the wake of the series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris by Islamic State of Iraq and the ...
[7] [58] The carrier began operations on 23 November 2015, 10 days after the ISIL terrorist attacks in Paris. [59] On 7 December 2015, Rear Admiral René-Jean Crignola of the French Maritime Force, embarked in Charles de Gaulle, took command of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command's Task Force 50, leading coalition naval strike operations. He was ...
On 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau locality (then part of Schöneberg, and since 2001 part of the merged district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg) of West Berlin. The entertainment venue was commonly frequented by United States soldiers; [2] [3] two of the dead and 79 of the ...
It is believed that the 2015 terrorist attacks in France led to a greater presence of Islamophobia and raised the number of racist acts. Complaints of anti-Muslim acts and threats increased by 223% and the incidence of violent racist attacks was higher in the month following each terrorist attack.
The Battle of France ( French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign ( German: Westfeldzug ), the French Campaign ( Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used.