Terrorism

TALIBAN fighters armed with petrol bombs and assault rifles torched a NATO supply truck in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal district on Friday, killing two people, officials said. Around a dozen Taliban militants attacked the truck used […] […]

A BLINDED survivor of a mass shooting at a US military base came face to face with his attacker yesterday. This came during a military court hearing to determine whether the army psychiatrist will face […] […]

WITNESSES wept and a US marine recalled being blown off his feet. This came during testimony yesterday about the bombing of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7, 1998. “I remember saying a […] […]

BAMAKO, Mali—A meeting of the G8 countries is looking at how to counter the threat posed by Islamic militants in northwest Africa, where an al-Qaida-linked group is currently holding five French citizens and two others […] […]

KABUL—A bomb blast killed three NATO troops in western Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after six service members died in a spate of attacks by insurgents in the east and south. An improvised explosive device […] […]

MANAMA, Bahrain—Bahrain has charged 23 Shiite activists detained in a sweeping crackdown by the country’s Sunni rulers with terrorism and conspiring against the government, a top justice official said Wednesday. Prosecutor General Abdul-Rahman al-Sayed said […] […]

OTTAWA—A London, Ont., doctor charged with conspiracy to facilitate terrorism walked free on bail Wednesday. Khurram Syed Sher, who once auditioned for the “Canadian Idol” TV show, was released on strict conditions. Among them, he […] […]

In the immediate aftermath of the July 7 bombings in London – amid the terrifying darkness of the Tube network – commuters came together to try to save their fellow passengers. Yesterday, at the inquest […] […]

CHILLING footage of the devastation wrought by the 2005 London bombings was shown in public for the first time at the inquests into the deaths of 52 passengers. The courtroom saw slow-moving, silent video from […] […]

A BRITISH aid worker who died in an attempt by US forces to rescue her from Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan may have been killed by a grenade detonated by the US troops, Prime Minister David […] […]