Terrorism

DAYS of brutal ethnic pogroms in Kyrgyzstan have forced 400,000 people to flee their homes. It has left the central Asian state more vulnerable to Islamic extremism, the UN has warned. Close to one-12th of […] […]

Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad has been charged with 10 terrorism and weapons counts in an indictment that accuses him of receiving explosives training and financial help from the Pakistani Taleban. The indictment returned […] […]

NEW YORK—A Guantanamo Bay detainee awaiting trial in a federal civilian court cannot evade strip searches that require him to expose his private areas because security would be compromised, a judge has ruled. U.S. District […] […]

BBC NEWS: Bags are to be put over scores of surveillance cameras in parts of Birmingham with large Muslim populations, after local objections. Safer Birmingham Partnerships (SBP) said 218 cameras had been installed, mainly in […] […]

Tributes have been paid to a “selfless, brave and fearless” Royal Marine who died in hospital in Britain after being injured in Afghanistan. Marine Steven Birdsall, 20, of 40 Commando Royal Marines, was shot by […] […]

FIVE NATO troops died today, continuing a grim trend that could make June among the deadliest months of the nearly nine-year-old Afghan war. Five Afghan policemen and a district governor were also killed in separate […] […]

RUSSIA appeared to edge closer to a military intervention in strife-torn Kyrgyzstan last night as aid began filtering into the south of the country where the death toll from ethnic clashes was expected to climb […] […]

RUSSIA and China moved to secure citizens and military assets in violence-racked Kyrgyzstan yesterday as the death toll from the country’s worst ethnic clashes in 20 years climbed to 117 and fears grew that the […] […]

NAIROBI, Kenya—Two explosions ripped through a park in Kenya’s capital during a packed political rally late Sunday, killing five people and wounding 75, officials said. The rally was held to protest a draft constitution the […] […]

BAGHDAD—Fifteen people were killed and dozens wounded Sunday when suicide bombers detonated at least one bomb at Iraq’s central bank and gunmen battled troops in what officials said may have been a raid on the […] […]