Terrorism

AT least six of 15 Hong Kong tourists have been killed in a Philippine bus hostage crisis, say reports quoting doctors at the scene. The hostage crisis in the Philippine capital Manila ended with four […] […]

SCOTTISH First Minister Alex Salmond is unmoved by the increasing furore over the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Speaking during a trade mission to Norway before the first anniversary today of the freeing of Abdel […] […]

CAIRO—A year after Scotland’s release of the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber caused an uproar, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is still stirring outrage simply by surviving. Loved ones of those killed in the 1988 jetliner bombing, who […] […]

THE CIA has admitted it has videotapes of the September 11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh under interrogation in Morocco. The videotapes are the only surviving footage from inside the clandestine “black prison” system where suspects were […] […]

BAGHDAD—A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in an attack officials said killed 60 and wounded 125, one of the bloodiest bombings in […] […]

The Lockerbie bomber was freed from jail on the basis of a medical report that ignored the standard treatment. Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi was released after the director of the Scottish Prisons Medical Services assured […] […]

A US federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee imprisoned at the island facility for more than eight-and-a-half years. In a previously secret ruling written in July and released today, US […] […]

LONDON—The family of a British medical worker killed in northern Afghanistan with nine colleagues from an aid charity praised their daughter’s bravery Monday, as her body was flown back to the U.K. Dr. Karen Woo, […] […]

An iconic Mumbai five-star hotel severely damaged in the 2008 terror attacks fully reopened last night with hundreds of people thronging its newly renovated lobbies and restaurants. The 107-year-old Taj Mahal hotel – an elegant, […] […]

A DEAL between the Taliban and a rogue Afghan police commander was partly to blame for the ease with which Taliban gunmen slaughtered eight foreign aid workers. British doctor Karen Woo, six Americans, one German […] […]