Terrorism

BAGHDAD—Explosions killed at least 20 people and wounded as many as 100 Saturday night at a downtown market in Iraq’s second-largest city, a senior official said, coming at the end of a violent day that […] […]

THE Taliban says it killed “Christian missionaries” working in remote northern Afghanistan where the bullet-riddled bodies of six Americans, one German and a British national were found. Three women were among the group of foreign […] […]

THE bodies of two American and six German doctors have been discovered in northern Afghanistan, a police official said today. Provincial police chief Aqa Noor Kintoz said the foreigners and one Afghan man were believed […] […]

A mutilated Afghan woman who ignited controversy by appearing on the cover of Time magazine is to undergo surgery in the US to rebuild her face. AFP reported the 18-year-old, identified only as Aisha, would […] […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that a Japanese oil tanker was hit by an explosives-laden dinghy in the Persian Gulf in what would be the first terror attack in […] […]

It is by now widely recognized that there’s no military solution in Afghanistan. Thus the talks with the Taliban, albeit tentative, backed even by Stephen Harper. It is only slowly being recognized that there’s no […] […]

SECURITY has emerged as the greatest threat to London’s 2012 Olympics at a world press briefing held this week in the British capital. About 300 Olympic media experts from 30 countries were briefed on London’s […] […]

WARSAW, POLAND—A Polish appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to hand over to Germany an alleged Mossad agent wanted in the slaying of a Hamas leader. The decision means that the alleged agent, […] […]

Abdullah Khadr walked out of a Toronto courtroom a free man Wednesday after an Ontario judge denied a U.S. request to send him to Boston to face terrorism charges. Extradition orders to the U.S. are […] […]

A Jamaican enlisted in the British Army was killed in the battlefield in Afghanistan on Sunday. Dead is 31-year-old Lance Sergeant Dale McCallum, who was fatally shot by insurgents as he commanded his men in […] […]