Terrorism

WASHINGTON—Yemen’s al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula includes chilling new tips on how to kill Americans in its second edition of the English online magazine Inspire. The 74-page issue advises would-be militants to open fire “at […] […]

POLICE are trying to link a deadly attack on a North Sumatra police station and an earlier bank robbery to radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. Bashir is already in custody charged with terrorism offences. However, […] […]

US funds for private security contractors in Afghanistan have flowed to warlords and Taliban insurgents, undermining the war effort and fuelling corruption, according to a Senate report issued today. The investigation by the Senate Armed […] […]

French counter-terrorism investigators arrested 12 people in two separate inquiries this morning but played down links with a Europe-wide terror alert issued by the US government last weekend. Three men were arrested in dawn raids […] […]

THE failed Times Square bomber, sentenced to life in prison yesterday, warned America that “the war with the Muslims has just begun”. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani who took American citizenship last year, told the court […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—NATO says one of its service members was killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan. An alliance statement says the bomb attack occurred Monday. NATO did not provide further details. It is […] […]

ISLAMABAD – Dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be hiding out in the lawless tribal area of northwestern Pakistan, Pakistani and Western intelligence officials say, training for missions that could include […] […]

ISLAMABAD – Suspected militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 tankers carrying oil for NATO and US troops in Afghanistan on Monday, the third such strike inside Pakistan in as many days, police […] […]

An editorial from the UK’s Independent on why the recent terror alerts give the damaging impression Europe is somehow unsafe in general. Last week’s reports that terror attacks are being planned in Europe on the […] […]

SAIR, West Bank—Israeli police shot and killed a construction worker from this West Bank village Sunday after he used a rope to scale a towering wall meant to keep Palestinians from sneaking into Israel, police […] […]