Terrorism

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba—Jurors considering a sentence for a former teenage al-Qaida militant got a stark message Thursday from a government-hired psychiatric expert: The last Westerner at Guantanamo is radical, angry and dangerous. Omar […] […]

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA – Omar Khadr knew his father was an Al Qaeda financier, considered himself a terrorist and was proud to target U.S. service members in Afghanistan, a military judge was told Tuesday morning. […] […]

THE remains of more than 100 Muslim victims of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war were found in a lake in the eastern part of the country, officials confirmed last night. Some 500 incomplete sets of bones, exhumed […] […]

“LET’S not make an issue of it,” said President Karzai as he acknowledged that he and other members of his inner circle have been receiving millions of dollars in cash payments from Iran. That is […] […]

Fahim Ahmad, the convicted leader of the so-called Toronto 18, was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison for his role in a plot to launch a campaign of terrorist attacks in Canada. In imposing […] […]

PAK PATTAN, Pakistan—A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in central Pakistan during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, officials said. The blast at the […] […]

A blunder by British forces in Iraq allowed al Qaida’s top commander in the country to escape, according to secret war logs controversially leaked into the public domain. An operation to capture Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, […] […]

CAIRO—A U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida on Saturday urged Muslims living in the United States and Europe to carry out attacks there, calling it a duty and an obligation. In a 48-minute video posted on militant […] […]

KABUL – Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding in houses in northwest Pakistan, CNN reported last night. CNN quoted a senior Nato official as saying the al Qaeda […] […]

DARK-SKINNED residents of Sweden’s third-largest city were put on alert yesterday by police. The authorities believe that a would-be serial killer is behind more than a dozen shootings targeting ethnic minorities. A young woman has […] […]