A man reported to be a serving soldier is dead and two people have been shot in Woolwich, south east London, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack. Downing Street has called a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee after the incident in John Wilson Street, which David Cameron [...]
Russia’s counterterrorism agency said Monday that its special forces killed two militants and detained a third believed to have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow. A spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, known as NAK, said on state television that the militants were Russian citizens who had received training along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. They [...]
Chads military chief announced late Saturday that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead.
The Mumbai police has sounded a high alert after the control room received calls claiming that six terrorists have sneaked into the city and may carry out a major attack at Juhu Chowpatty or Bandra Bandstand on Valentines Day. On February 14, youngsters throng both these places.Police commissioner Satyapal Singh on Sunday night contacted all [...]
Shortly before leaving the Capitol following President Obama’s inauguration Monday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was asked about an al-Qaeda affiliate’s recent attack on an Algerian gas plant in which three Americans workers were among the 37 dead. “I’m glad we were able to get some rescued,” Panetta said. “That just tells us al-Qaeda is committed [...]
Missing terror suspect Ibrahim Magag escaped surveillance by simply ringing a TAXI, the shadow Home Secretary claimed today. Yvette Cooper told MPs that Somali-born Magag evaded detection after ripping off his electronic tag and getting a cab on Boxing Day. She said that a tweet from London taxi news service Cabwise suggested he picked up [...]
When Al Jazeera becomes a major U.S. cable channel, as it plans, some Americans are likely to click past it, recalling the alleged anti-American tone by the pan-Arab network during the Iraq war a decade ago. “My guess is that when people hear about Al Jazeera, they will not be paying attention to the news [...]
Canada added Iran’s Quds Force to a list of terrorist groups on Thursday, saying the elite special operations unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had been arming the Taliban, Hamas and others. AFP reported that Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the Quds Force was responsible for “exporting the Iranian Revolution through activities such [...]
British Embassy staff in Romania were targeted by a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist brandishing a sword.The Iraqi was pounced on by police as he brandished the nine-inch blade near the buildings gates in the capital, Bucharest.Romanias SRI intelligence service are understood to have had the suspect under surveillance for days after he entered the country, according [...]
HEZBOLLAH chief Hassan Nasrallah has warned al-Qaeda it has been tricked into fighting in Syria, and the rebellion will not be able to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad militarily.”The Americans, Europeans and some governments in the Arab and Muslim world have set a trap for you in Syria,” the head of Lebanons most [...]
The order to destroy the missile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory was issued after a meeting of the Security Council of Japan met and was informed that North Korea has begun filling a fuel tank alongside the launch pad at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in preparation for the [...]
If there was one clear winner in the latest round of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, it was the Iron Dome — the Jewish state’s complex defense system that plucks rockets out of the sky before they can threaten civilian targets. As daily rocket attacks from Gaza leapt from a handful to hundreds earlier this [...]
General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah said the Lebanese resistance will target Tel Aviv and other areas in Israel with thousands of missiles in case of a possible Israeli aggression against Lebanon. Read More
Canada’s diplomats in Moscow will have to work another three years in an embassy compound that’s vulnerable to terrorist attack and the prying eyes of foreign spies, The Canadian Press has learned. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was warned in an internal memo from a senior bureaucrat that Canada’s embassy in the Russian capital offers [...]
These terrifying pictures show children as young as five being trained to kill with pistols and deadly AK-47 assault rifles. They were taken from footage of an al Qaeda terror camp in north Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Many of the children are orphans of the terrorist organisations martyrs following the same deadly route as [...]
A TransLink attendant at the Metro-town SkyTrain Station in Burnaby found a suspicious device roughly six hours after a makeshift bomb was discovered on the tracks in Surrey. While Transit police said early indications were that it “doesnt look anything like” the Surrey device, as of 10 p.m. Friday, an RCMP bomb disposal unit was [...]
A dirty bomb attack on the UK is a “real threat” and every country has to be vigilant against a nuclear strike, the Foreign Office has warned. Alistair Burt, who is in charge of counter-terrorism policy, admitted there had been fears of a bomb during this summer’s Olympics. The threat was considered to be strong [...]
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, join Syrias rebellion and to ensure Egypt implements sharia, SITE Monitoring reported on Saturday, citing a two-part film posted on Islamist websites.The Egypt-born cleric, who became al Qaeda leader last year after the death of Osama bin Laden, spoke in a message that [...]
