Terrorism

WOULD-BE terrorists searching the internet for tips on how to build bombs were instead taught how to bake the perfect cupcake after an intervention by British intelligence. Intelligence agency MI6 launched the cyber operation against […] […]

LONDON—British probation officers say authorities may struggle to cope as up to 70 convicted terrorists are released from jail over the next 12 months. The National Association of Probation Officers said Thursday that many of […] […]

Al-Qaeda is warning that the US has committed a “big mistake” and a “serious sin” in killing Osama bin Laden and is calling on Muslims to avenge his death. In a statement posted on the […] […]

INDONESIAN prosecutors today dropped the most serious terror charges against radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for lack of evidence, leaving him facing a possible life sentence instead of death. Prosecutors at Bashir’s trial in Jakarta […] […]

AL-Qaeda’s has launched a women’s magazine which mixes tips on skin care with articles on marrying suicide bombers and waging electronic jihad. Al Shamikha magazine – its title means The Majestic Woman – features beauty […] […]

VIDEO footage from the September 11, 2001 attacks shot from a police helicopter has been released for the first time. The New York Police Department helicopter was hovering near the burning World Trade Centre towers […] […]

THE only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing spent 10 years in prison in the Netherlands and Glasgow, but it appears he is being amply compensated for that lost decade. The Times on Monday tracked […] […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who helped run an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan will serve less than three years in prison under a plea deal that requires him to testify against other […] […]

Pakistan’s army suffered a damaging blow after a suicide bomber believed to be in his teens and dressed in a school uniform slipped into a military base yesterday and set off an explosion, killing at […] […]