Terrorism

JERUSALEM – Israel and Egypt signaled a temporary easing of the Gaza Strip blockade following harsh international condemnation of a deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla en route to the sealed-off Palestinian territory. Egypt […] […]

AT least five people were killed and six injured yesterday, after gunmen dressed as Pakistani police officers shot their way into a Lahore hospital, where victims of last week’s attack on two Ahmadi mosques were […] […]

OTTAWA—A federal lawyer began concluding arguments in the Mohamed Harkat case by painting the Ottawa man as a calculating terrorist who consistently covered his tracks with lies. Counsel David Tyndale said Monday that Harkat’s version […] […]

AL-QA’IDA has announced the death of a trusted aide to Osama bin Laden and its top leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid. Yazid, an Egyptian national also known as Sheikh Said, was said to be […] […]

By Marty Peretz IT’S official now. You cannot use “Muslim extremism” or “Islamic terrorism”. Not because the words don’t describe a real phenomenon in the world. An ugly phenomenon. And, alas, an abundant phenomenon. But […] […]

LAHORE, PAKISTAN—Police on Saturday blamed the Pakistani Taliban for attacks that killed 93 people at two mosques belonging to a minority sect, and said the militants involved had trained in an Afghan border region where […] […]

WASHINGTON—About six dozen people who were being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison when President Barack Obama took office were directly implicated in terrorist attacks against the United States or played significant roles within al-Qaida […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—Inexperienced operators of a U.S. drone aircraft ignored or downplayed signs that Afghan civilians were in a convoy blasted in a deadly American missile attack earlier this year, a military report released Saturday said. […] […]

Angry relatives of 9/11 victims last night clashed with supporters of a planned mosque near Ground Zero at a raucous community-board hearing in Manhattan. After four hours of public debate, members of Community Board 1 […] […]

LIMA, Peru –  A judge granted parole yesterday to Lori Berenson, the 40-year-old New York activist who has spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons on a conviction of aiding leftist rebels.   Judge Jessica Leon granted […] […]