Terrorism

IRANIAN companies in Kabul are using their offices to covertly finance Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. They are paying bounties of $US1000 ($1090) for killing a US soldier and $US6000 for destroying a military vehicle, a […] […]

A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia’s violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said. The attack took place about 1am (2100 GMT […] […]

JERUSALEM—Israel’s military said Saturday that surveillance footage from drones shows that the explosions that rocked a village in southern Lebanon this week occurred at a residential building used by Hezbollah as a weapons depot. A […] […]

GAZA CITY: Thirteen armed Palestinian groups, including the militant Islamist movement Hamas, say they have set up a centre to co-ordinate operations against Israel. The threat, together with violence this week, raised tensions in Israel […] […]

AIRPORT arrival lounges are the settings for many emotional reunions, but few can have matched the one at Oslo’s Gardermoen airport yesterday. After most of the other passengers on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul […] […]

United States officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan’s Taleban yesterday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year’s suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven […] […]