Terrorism

THE coast off Gaza is becoming the Middle East’s new flashpoint, with Iran and Hezbollah yesterday declaring intentions to break the Israeli blockade and four Palestinians divers shot dead by the Israeli navy. Iran’s Revolutionary […] […]

NEW YORK: Two men were charged yesterday with conspiracy to kill Americans abroad after allegedly vowing “to slice up” US troops in “a thousand pieces”. Mohamed Alessa, 20, and Carlos Almonte, 24, were detained at […] […]

FIVE NATO soldiers, four of them Americans, were killed today in war-torn Afghanistan, the alliance said in a statement, in a day of violence which left six others dead and 26 wounded. The soldiers, members […] […]

POLICE arrested two New Jersey men last night as they tried to leave the US for terrorist training camps in war-torn Somalia. The men, identified as 20-year-old Mohamed Hamoud Alessa and 26-year-old Carlos Eduardo Almonte, […] […]

Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad has said he was driven by anger over dozens of unmanned drone attacks that he witnessed during his most recent five-month visit to his home in Pakistan. He joins […] […]

HARDLINE Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir had a direct line to al-Qa’ida around the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US because his son was working in the organisation’s propaganda department. […] […]

A LEBANESE-AMERICAN couple were arrested and charged with providing material support to Hezbollah, a designated foreign terror organisation, and other crimes. The Justice Department said Hor Akl, and his wife Amera Akl, both 37, were […] […]

AL-QAEDA has urged supporters in Saudi Arabia to kidnap Christians and Saudi princes to press for the release of a female militant the group says was nabbed north of Riyadh. “Form cells to kidnap Christians […] […]

SAN’A, Yemen—Yemeni authorities have detained several foreigners, including Americans, Britons and an Australian woman, in connection with an investigation into al-Qaida’s increased activity in the country, security officials said Wednesday. The arrests were made after […] […]

AN Australian mother has been taken into custody by Yemeni authorities over suspected links to al-Qaeda, while her two children were placed under house arrest, her lawyer said overnight. Shyloh Jayne Giddens, who had converted […] […]