Terrorism

Taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing which killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, the insurgents’ spiritual home. “Deputy governor Abdul Latif Ashna had just left his home and was on […] […]

MOSCOW—The suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Moscow’s busiest airport was deliberately targeting foreigners, investigators said Saturday, which would mark an ominous new tactic by separatist militants in southern Russia if he was recruited […] […]

A FORMER bodyguard for Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to life in jail in a ruling hailed by the Obama administration as vindication of its efforts to try terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay in […] […]

MANILA – A powerful explosion ripped through a passenger bus in the Philippine capital last night, killing at least two people and wounding at least 18 others. The explosion was so powerful it punched a […] […]

Russia has an unhappy history when it comes to terrorist attacks. Some of the worst from the last 15 years are listed below: January 24, 2011: An explosion at the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s […] […]

FRANCE last night rejected a warning from Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa’ida leader, in which he said that French hostages in Niger would be executed if Paris did not withdraw its forces from Afghanistan. Michele […] […]

BAGHDAD – Three suicide car bombers struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, local time, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 180 in a third straight day of attacks across Iraq. […] […]

PARIS—Lawyers for ex-inmates of the Guantanamo prison camp used documents released by WikiLeaks to argue for their acquittal in a French terrorism trial Thursday. Five Frenchmen held at the prison were acquitted by a French […] […]

A man accused of conspiring to kill Americans in Iraq was arrested in Canada today, the Justice Department announced. Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa, 38, was arrested based on a complaint in the US charging him […] […]

Federal prosecutors in New York say the first Guantanamo detainee to be convicted in a civilian court is “evil” and deserves a life sentence for helping al-Qaida bomb two US embassies in Africa in 1998 […] […]