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Editorial: Fear comes too close to home

While Europe and North America may be afraid to go outside, we fear the crime that comes to us.

Does France have itself to blame for the Paris attacks by Islamic State terrorists earlier this month because of the greed it manifested in colonial times?

Letters to the editor: November 27 to December 3 2015

While one reader sees Islam as an ‘aggressive religion’, another blames the West for the damage caused by colonialism – and scapegoating Muslims.

Belgium is being criticised for allowing itself to become a jihadist breeding ground

Intelligence is Schengen’s best defence against terrorism

Discarding Europe’s free-travel zone will not curb terrorism. Intelligence and undercover police have to infiltrate organised crime gangs.

While no one has yet provided evidence of its involvement

We must prepare for a 30-year war in the Middle East

Twelve years after George W Bush proclaimed a new era of peace and stability in Iraq, the Middle East is more unstable and dangerous than ever before.

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Anonymous hackers could be Islamic State’s online nemesis

Anonymous strives to bring down Islamic State propaganda before it reaches the masses.

A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

Why Islamic State targeted Paris and why it’s changing tack

In the flurry of activity since Paris was attacked, the reasons it happened in the first place risk being forgotten.

Letters to the editor: November 20 to 26 2015

Readers write in about the Paris attacks and Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s spokesperson, Zara Nicholson, responds to an M&G article on the DA.

Paris Attacks: Social media a measure of solidarity

Many complain of Western bias, but others say citizens in countries like Nigeria should take responsibility for drawing the world’s attention.

Paris attacks: No answers for why youths turn terrorist

Parisians fear for their lives in the wake of the attacks, but will not be bullied into staying at home, writes Ross Douglas.

The “hard-fought” negotiations to develop a landmark United Nations treaty to end plastic pollution closed on Friday without agreement and have been extended again

Radicalisation is not measurable or predictable

The Paris attackers were known fanatics who evaded police surveillance.

Paris attacks will force Hollande into bed with Assad

Several voices have made the analogy with the World War II choice by democratic countries to ally with Stalin against Hitler, writes Pierre Haski.

French soldiers secure the area after shots were exchanged in Saint-Denis.

Saint-Denis raid one of 118 French anti-terror searches

Police carried out 118 searches overnight as part of increased efforts to combat terrorism and locate the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks.

Police uncertain if Abaaoud in Saint-Denis apartment

Forensic police have yet to verify if suspected commander of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed and arrested in the raid.

Anonymous ‘at war’ with Islamic State, hacktivist group confirms

#OpIsis, born in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders, has stepped up following the Paris attacks, vowing to take down Isis online.

The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has been dispatched to the eastern Mediterranean

France requests EU help in wake of Paris attacks

Defence minister invokes mutual assistance article in Lisbon treaty for first time as warplanes bomb Islamic State targets in Syria.

The world’s largest cocoa producer, Ivory Coast has emerged from a period of civil and political unrest in 2010-11 in which 3 000 people died to recorded annual economic growth rates of nearly 10 percent. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP)

I’m not praying for Paris – SA academic

A local academic explains why he believes the expectations of solidarity for victims of the Paris attacks are "racist and Islamophobic".

An image of a man described as Abdelhamid Abaaoud

How social media was key to Islamic State’s attacks on Paris

The tools that protect people’s privacy on social media are being used by terrorists to spread their messages of hate and attack.

The world’s largest cocoa producer, Ivory Coast has emerged from a period of civil and political unrest in 2010-11 in which 3 000 people died to recorded annual economic growth rates of nearly 10 percent. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP)

Paris attacks: A field day for Islamophobes

Opponents to migration have been waiting for an opportunity to close borders, but that won’t stop terrorism – resisting xenophobia might.

People pray outside Le Carillon restaurant

France launches airstrike on Islamic State stronghold

French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into the deadly Paris attacks.