This week on Beyond the Headlines, we look into the growing number of European ISIS fighters captured in Syria and ask what should Europe do with them?
France has agreed to allow eleven ISIS fighters to be handed over to Iraq where the penalty for belonging to a terrorist group is death. France is opposed to the death penalty and has campaigned against the ... Show More
Nov 21
How Israel is obstructing reconstruction in Lebanon
<p>Israel has bombed Lebanon on an almost daily basis over the past year, despite a ceasefire being in place.</p>
<p>Its army claims to be attacking Hezbollah, accusing the group of re-arming. But civilian infrastructure, agricultural land and even construction equipment in south ... Show More
21m 29s
Nov 12
What will it take to end the civil war in Sudan?
<p>When the Sudanese city of El Fasher fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in late October, the group gained control of the entire Darfur region and areas to the south-west.</p>
<p>Their rivals, the Sudanese armed forces, control the capital Khartoum, as well as the nor ... Show More
19m 23s
May 2023
Le jihadisme européen: un phénomène enraciné?
Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, près de 150 attentats islamistes ont été commis en Europe, de Madrid à Paris, de Londres à Berlin, en passant par Bruxelles ou Stockholm. Bilan : quelque 800 morts, près de 5 000 blessés... Depuis l’effondrement de Daech et la perte de son califat aut ... Show More
50 m
Oct 2019
The Life and Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
<p>After a five-year international manhunt, the leader of the Islamic State, who at one point controlled a caliphate the size of Britain, was killed in a raid by elite United States forces in Syria over the weekend.</p><p>Today, we explore the life and death of Abu Bakr al-Baghda ... Show More
27m 53s
Nov 2020
French secularism and the resurgence of terror
Over the last few weeks, Islamist terror attacks in France, and then Austria shook Europe, and the world. In response, the UK has also raised its terror threat level to "severe". But the French President Emmanuel Macron's response to the attacks has sent ripples of anger through ... Show More
30m 7s
Aug 2021
Charia, terrorisme, nouveaux équilibres géopolitiques... Les conséquences du retour des talibans à Kaboul
<p>Les conflits et la géopolitique n'attendent pas, <em>Le Monde devant soi</em> non plus. Qui aurait imaginé que les talibans reprendraient le contrôle de l'Afghanistan si vite après le retrait des États-Unis? Il y avait bien des signaux plus ou moins faibles depuis qu ... Show More
32m 7s