Terrorism

Sometimes there is a story that lays out the priorities that drive our governments once the doors are closed and the cameras are switched off. The story of the attempt to trade the Lockerbie bomber […] […]

Iraqis often ask why al Qaeda suicide bombers driving vehicles packed with explosives into Baghdad are able to pass unsuspected through so many checkpoints before blowing themselves up outside government ministries, killing and wounding hundreds. […] […]

THE landmark international conference in Kabul, attended by 40 foreign ministers and international delegates from more than 70 countries, ended on Tuesday with the official endorsement of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s reconciliation program with armed […] […]

Four al-Qaeda-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the US to Iraqi authorities a week ago, Iraq’s justice minister said – a daring escape that embarrasses a government […] […]

BEIRUT—The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Thursday that its members will be among those indicted in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—a move he dismissed as politically motivated. Hassan Nasrallah […] […]

An Irish republican terrorist has been jailed for life after he admitted the murder of a British soldier outside an Army recruitment office 18 years ago. Sergeant Michael Newman, 34, was gunned down by the […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s terrorism laws watchdog says dissident Irish Republican paramilitaries could mount attacks on the U.K. mainland for the first time in about a decade. Alex Carlile, the country’s independent reviewer of anti-terrorism laws, warned in […] […]

A British woman and her American husband accused over a terror plot have admitted lying about the existence of a hit-list of possible targets who the couple suspected were enemies of Islam. Paul Rockwood and […] […]

Two British soldiers have been shot dead in Afghanistan while trying to rescue a colleague, the Ministry of Defence said. The soldiers, one from The Royal Dragoon Guards and the other from 1st Battalion Scots […] […]

THE invasion of Iraq “substantially” increased the terror threat to Britain and turned British Muslims against their own country, says the former head of the MI5 spy agency. Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, controller of the domestic […] […]