Terrorism

WASHINGTON—The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country’s post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes. The 8-year-old system, with its […] […]

POLICE have detained ten Islamists in Europe who are suspected of plotting an attack in Belgium, the prosecutor’s office said. The arrests were part of “an inquiry into international jihadist terror,” a spokesman for the […] […]

WASHINGTON—As the busiest travel week of the year kicks off in the United States, American outrage about new airport security measures is reaching such a fever pitch that even President Barack Obama has asked authorities […] […]

WASHINGTON—The head of the Transportation Security Administration on Sunday acknowledged that new full-body scanners and thorough pat-downs can be invasive and uncomfortable, but he said that the need to stay a step ahead of terrorists […] […]

THE Yemen-based branch of al-Qa’ida has vowed to continue attacks against the West such as last month’s cargo plane parcel bombs, in a “strategy of a thousand cuts” that will “bleed the enemy to death”. […] […]

WASHINGTON—Al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula is promising more small-scale attacks like its attempts to bomb two U.S.-bound cargo planes, which it likens to bleeding its enemy to death by a thousand cuts, in a special […] […]

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Two reputed white supremacists and a black associate collaborated on a plot to sell grenades and guns to a member of a national white supremacist group, according to prosecutors who put the men on […] […]

ISRAELI warplanes have struck three sites in the Islamist-run Palestinian Gaza Strip, wounding six people, after a rocket and mortar rounds were fired into Israel from the coastal enclave. “The targeting of these terror-linked sites […] […]

PARIS—France’s new foreign minister on Friday rejected a reported message from al-Qaida’s North Africa branch saying that Paris should negotiate with Osama bin Laden over the fate of five French hostages seized from an African […] […]

FOUR time bombs were found and defused this week at a hotel in downtown Rangoon, Burma’s state-controlled press reported today. Thanks to a “duty-conscious citizen”, authorities found two suspicious-looking packages on Wednesday under a table […] […]