Cohen is the first Jew to be appointed to such a senior position in the US intelligence agency; one of his key tasks will be to “follow the money” of ISIS terrorists.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the ‘‘Paris terrorists’’ who carried out the bloody attacks last week in Paris, saying both had committed crimes against humanity.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday to protect Jews and Muslims living in Germany from prejudice, saying vibrant democracy was thebest way to combat the sort of extremist violence that shook France last week.
Belgian police on Thursday averted ''''major terror attacks'''' similar to the ones last week in Paris when special forces killed two jihadists returning from Syria in raids in the Brussels region and in Verviers, a city in the eastern part of the country.
The Islamist gunmen behind a wave of terror attacks in Paris last week purchased their weapons from a Belgian arms dealer located in Brussels, Belgian media reported.
The Belgian Jewish community paid tribute to the memory of the 17 people killed in the terrorist attacks last week in Paris, including four Jews murdered by an Islamist terrorist in a kosher supermarket two days after an attack against a French magazine, during an emotional ceremony Wednesday night at the Maale synagogue in Brussels.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif engaged in ''substantive meetings'' on Wednesday, the State Department said.
sraeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Europe's silence in the face of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's anti-Israel attacks is one of the reasons for the surge of anti-Semitism in Europe.
Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, Daniel Taub, complained about comments made by a Liberal Democrat MP after Sunday’s solidarity march by world leaders in Paris.
