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Al-Shabaab pushed back in Somalia by African peace enforcers
Soldiers from the UN-backed Amisom force are edging towards the Islamist militants' stronghold of KismayoColonel Kayanja Muhanga is describing his troops' latest victory when suddenly there is a rattle...
View ArticleAum cult member arrested over 1995 Tokyo tube gas attack – video
Katsuya Takahashi, the last suspected member of the Aum cult, which was behind the 1995 attack on Tokyo's transport system, has been arrested
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Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter Bergen – review
A detailed survey of Osama bin Laden's demise from the Washington-based journalist who once interviewed him for CNNIt was the most asymmetric conflict in history. The mightiest military power the world...
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Fatal car bomb explodes in north-west Pakistan
At least 20 killed and dozens more injured after bomb explodes in Landi Kotal, near border with AfghanistanAt least 20 people have been killed after a car bomb exploded in a crowded bazaar in...
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Nigerian church explosions prompt reprisal attacks
Blasts at three churches in northern state of Kaduna kill at least seven people and lead to retaliatory attacks against MuslimsExplosions at three churches in northern Nigeria have killed at least...
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Yemen army chief killed by suicide bomber
Major General Salem Ali Qatan, military commander in Yemen's southern region, dies and 12 are hurt in suicide attack in AdenThe commander of the military in Yemen's southern region has been killed in a...
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Letters: Political football
John Austin's description of Mahmoud Sarsak as a "young Palestinian footballer" (Letters, 14 June) is insulting to footballers. Mr Sarsak was arrested on the basis of information pointing to his...
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Indonesian militant jailed for 20 years for role in Bali bombings
Umar Patek was convicted of helping build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks that left 202 people deadAn Indonesian militant has been convicted of helping to build the massive car...
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Anders Behring Breivik: history will exonerate me
Victims' relatives walk out as trial ends with killer demanding to be set free and asking court to reject insanity claimThe trial of Anders Behring Breivik has ended with the confessed mass killer...
View ArticleIs Jimmy Carter right that drones have cost the US moral authority? | Poll
Poll: Former US President Jimmy Carter has criticised America's growing use of drones in the past decade, saying 'the US can no longer speak with moral authority on human rights.' Do you agree?
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New York man to be tried for allegedly plotting to blow up synagogues
Judge approves rare state-level terrorism prosecution that stems from NYPD's controversial surveillance of Muslim groupsA judge ruled Monday that an unusual state-level terror case against a man...
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MI5 warns al-Qaida regaining UK toehold after Arab spring
British jihadists seeking terrorist training in Middle East, where unrest is giving al-Qaida chance to re-emergeBritish would-be jihadists are heading to the Middle East to seek terrorist training...
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MI5 chief enters row over 'snoopers' charter'
Jonathan Evans says draft bill is necessary to ensure police and intelligence services keep technological pace with criminalsIt would be "extraordinary and self-defeating" if intelligence agencies and...
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Mumbai terror attacks suspect arrested by Indian police
Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari is thought to have helped co-ordinate the 2008 attacks from Pakistan using his local knowledgeA man believed to have acted as a "handler" in the Mumbai terror attacks that left...
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Africa's Islamist militants 'co-ordinate efforts in threat to continent's...
Head of US Africa Command says Boko Haram, al-Shabaab and al-Qaida in north Africa sharing money, explosives and trainingThree of Africa's most dangerous Islamist militant groups are striving to...
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The White House's blemished record of disclosure on Bush-era torture |...
Since publishing the 'torture memos', the Obama adminstration has obfuscated far too much about CIA interrogation techniquesOf the thousands of now public documents related to the Bush administration's...
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Munich Olympics massacre: the fight for remembrance
Israeli coach Andrei Spitzer was one of those murdered at the 1972 Games. His widow, Ankie, explains why she is determined to see their memory finally honoured in LondonFor 40 years, through nine...
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Nigerians' spirit is indestructible | Chibundu Onuzo
We Nigerians have coped with dictators, genocide and bombs. Boko Haram will never defeat usIf I were to write a book about the almost perverse will of Nigerians to find a way, I would call it What to...
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New York City terrorism suspect faces trial over synagogue bomb plot
Judge rejects attorney's claim that case is based on entrapment of a man police say planned to pose as Jewish to gain accessLawyers for a man accused of plotting to blow up New York City's largest...
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Gunmen kidnap foreign aid workers in Kenya
Four foreigners and a driver seized at refugee camp by Somalian borderGunmen kidnapped four foreigners and a driver working for the Norwegian Refugee Council at Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp near the...
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