UK seeks human rights 'partners' to counter terror - and torture
• foreign secretary's speech anticipates more controversy over Britain's security and intelligence alliances• allies against terrorism include those with poor human rights records, Hague recognisesThe...
View ArticleLetters: Hope for peace in Philippines
Simon Tisdall's article (Was Philippines peace born in Belfast?, 14 February) shows that there is real hope for a sustainable peace process in Mindanao. Both Christian and Muslim communities have been...
View ArticleAl-Qaida strategy in north Africa revealed in document found in Mali
In apparently genuine manifesto, senior commander tells his men they tried to impose Islamic law too quicklyA document that purports to reveal al-Qaida's strategy in north Africa has been recovered...
View ArticleIndia's message to Kashmir: the noose can extend beyond the gallows | Mirza...
First, Kashmiri Afzal Guru was hanged and now the region is under curfew in India's heartless display of retributive justiceA curfew is like a collective strangulation. You proscribe movement, talk,...
View ArticlePakistan market bomb kills scores
At least 65 die after bomb explodes in grocery market in Shia-dominated neighbourhood of QuettaA bomb attack on a crowded grocery market in a Shia-dominated neighbourhood in Pakistan has left at least...
View ArticlePakistan market blast leaves devastation in Quetta - video
The Shia-dominated neighborhood of Hazara in Quetta, Pakistan, is left in tatters on Sunday after a market bomb on Saturday that killed at least 65 people
View ArticleAfzal Guru's hanging has created a dangerously radioactive political fallout...
By executing the Kashmiri in the way that it did, the Indian government has decided to fuel the process of destabilisationWhat are the political consequences of the secret and sudden hanging of...
View ArticleIn Pakistan, there's no answer to terror | Kamila Shamsie
Pakistan's government and military alike are silent on who is promoting the murder of Shias in BaluchistanOn Monday, in Karachi, I stayed at home while protesters took to the streets in an attempt to...
View ArticleLife as the spouse of a suspected al-Qaida terrorist
What's it like being married to a man who has spent 13 years in UK prisons fighting deportation to the US on terrorism charges – and seeing him finally lose that battle? In an extract from Victoria...
View ArticleHyderabad blasts kill shoppers
At least 12 killed and scores wounded in pair of explosions outside cinema and bus terminal in southern Indian cityTwo bombs exploded in a crowded shopping district in the southern Indian city of...
View ArticleLetters: Airport security
Sixteen hours before my daughter Flora was killed on the Lockerbie flight in 1988, the airside of Heathrow was broken into, close to where the bomb was loaded the following evening. Security was...
View ArticleBirmingham terror gang who thought 7/7 was not deadly enough found guilty
Chemistry graduate led trio of would-be suicide bombers inspired by al-Qaida who plotted 'murder on a horrendous scale'Three would-be suicide bombers face life in jail after a jury convicted them on...
View ArticleAfghan security forces prevent suicide bombing in Kabul
Bomber targets national security headquarters as Taliban claim responsibility for three separate suicide attacks on SundayAfghan security forces in Kabul have shot dead a suicide bomber before he was...
View ArticleI know in my bones that a robot is going to kill you – the new micro-drones |...
It's no use hoping a chilling video of drones being developed by the US is a hoax, as made-up tech tends to come true anywayCall me a pessimist, but every now and then I see something and think: "Yes,...
View ArticleVideo of 'French citizens kidnapped in Cameroon' released – video
A video uploaded to Youtube on Monday purports to show seven French citizens who were kidnapped near the border of Nigeria and Cameroon on Tuesday
View ArticleManning prosecution may call Navy Seal to testify about WikiLeaks damage
Government to call 'John Doe' American who may have been involved in Bin Laden raid to prove Manning 'aided the enemy'The US government is planning to call an American, possibly one of the 22 Navy...
View ArticleLetters: Tony Blair's legacy for Labour and the world
In regards to Martin Kettle's article (Iraq must not blind us to Blair's skills and seriousness, 28 February), it had more than a touch of the "at least he made the trains run on time". Blair was one...
View ArticleAl-Qaida magazine tells militants how to torch cars and cause traffic accidents
English-language magazine published online also lists public figures including Salman Rushdie as targets for attackAl-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the most active branch of the terror...
View ArticleAlgerian gas plant siege mastermind 'killed by Chadian forces in Mali'
Army claims Mokhtar Belmokhtar, commander of an al-Qaida linked brigade, died in a raid on an Islamist rebel baseArmed forces in Chad claim to have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the commander of an...
View ArticleAlgerian hostage mastermind 'killed' in Mali – video
Chadian forces say they have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, thought to be behind the In Amenas hostage situation
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