Europe faces a persistent threat from Islamist terrorism.[1] It is one that has increased with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the al-Qaeda offshoot that now controls significant parts of Iraq and Syria.
In Sudan, the plunder of ancient sites and millenia-long cultural history is being looted and smuggled abroad, due to weak legal deterrents, lax regulations, ongoing civil unrest and widespread instability.