Terrorism

RADICAL Muslim groups around the world are planning to torch American flags in protest at a Florida church’s Koran-burning event – as a US military group vowed to replace each holy book that is incinerated. […] […]

TWELVE people were wounded on Wednesday when a bomb exploded outside the Colombian intelligence agency’s offices in the southern city of Pasto, near the Ecuadoran border, the Red Cross said. A “low-intensity package bomb was […] […]

A US drone strike early Thursday killed at least six militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said. The latest strike hit North Waziristan, the same tribal district targeted in […] […]

THE lead investigator into the massacre of 72 migrants in northeast Mexico and another police officer who went missing during the probe have turned up dead, officials said overnight. The bodies of investigator Roberto Jaime […] […]

OTTAWA—A member of Afghanistan’s notorious intelligence service boasted to Canadian military officers in the spring of last year that his organization was able to “torture” or “beat” prisoners during the course of its investigations, say […] […]

A group of former Provisional IRA bombmakers are believed to have joined dissident republicans to play a key part in the dramatic rise in attacks in Northern Ireland, according to security and military sources. The […] […]

PALESTINIAN militants fired a mortar round from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday narrowly missing a kindergarten in a kibbutz in southern Israel, the military said, as Jews prepared to mark their New Year. There were […] […]

TWO American soldiers were killed and nine others wounded when a gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on them, the US army says. The attack last night occurred within an Iraqi army compound […] […]

TOKYO—A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone. Just days […] […]