Terrorism

Police in Jersey City have foiled what they’re saying was a bomb plot that could have destroyed part of the city’s Heights section. Deputy Police Chief Peter Nalbach says the primitive bomb, consisting of a […] […]

The emirate of Dubai has named a British citizen as a 19th suspect of the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas official murdered in the emirate four months ago, apparently by a group that included […] […]

The bodies of six villagers have been found with their throats slit in the forests of India’s Chhattisgarh state, police say, blaming Maoist rebels. The dead, who included a local village chief, were kidnapped by […] […]

The Maldives has offered to take two detainees from the US facility in Guantanamo Bay, the Indian Ocean state’s president has said. President Mohamed Nasheed said there was “no harm” in the offer, and said […] […]

The shell of former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s efforts to produce a nuclear bomb is being slowly dismantled along the banks of the Tigris River, but its radioactive legacy lingers on. The Tuwaitha research complex, […] […]

An Afghan prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for an American special forces commander over allegations that a police chief was murdered by a US-trained militia. Brigadier General Ghulam Ranjbar, the chief military prosecutor in […] […]

Acting Captain Bill Pollock has watched a soldier’s funeral procession before as the hearse, carrying the trooper’s casket, drives by the Bloor St. fire station on its way to the coroner’s office. But this time […] […]

VANCOUVER—Passengers on board a Hong Kong flight to Vancouver looking out over clear blue skies Saturday noticed something was wrong about an hour before landing when two fighter jets appeared and began shadowing their plane. […] […]

VANCOUVER—At least 200 passengers on board a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong remained on board at the tarmac at Vancouver International Airport Saturday afternoon after two fighter jets escorted the plane into Canadian airspace […] […]

A DOUBLE bomb attack at a football match in northern Iraq, which was unprotected by security forces, has killed 25 people in the second incident this week to cause mass casualties. The explosion, which also […] […]