A Taliban suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-packed vehicle next to a Nato military convoy in Kabul, say officials.
Britain’s Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has told Parliament that less than 1% of information leaked by Edward Snowden has been published.
A Kenyan police squad, funded and trained by the UK and the US, stands accused of rights abuses.
As Nina Davuluri took the title of Miss America, Haji Mohamed Dawjee looks at the harsh reception the first Indian-American winner received.
An anti-terrorism unit is investigating the stabbing of a French soldier that police think was inspired by the killing of a British soldier in London.
Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just.
South Africans injured in Boston bombings were spectators, not runners, says Dirco, as Barack Obama admits attack was an ‘act of terror’.
All-round Cricketer Shahid Afridi has made an emotional appeal to the cricketing world to end Pakistan’s four-year isolation over terror attacks.
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/ 7 December 2011
Two Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia have admitted contact with an outlawed rebel group but reject accusations they received weapons training.
An "al-Qaeda sympathiser" has been arrested in New York for allegedly planning bomb attacks targeting soldiers, police cars and post offices.
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/ 15 November 2011
UK police have arrested four men in Birmingham on terrorism-related charges as part of a major counter-terror operation.
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/ 2 November 2011
Four US citizens have been arrested for plotting to attack government workers and buildings and trying to make the deadly biological toxin ricin.
The name-reading ceremony of the nearly 3000 people killed on September 11 2001 ended on Sunday in New York with buglers playing taps.
President Barack Obama has vowed that the US will never waver in its fight against terrorism as Americans mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks.
An al-Qaeda suspect plotted to poison tourists’ water supplies to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, a Spanish judge has said.
France’s far-right party founder sparked growing outrage with claims that the Norwegian government’s "naivety" was to blame for the recent killings.
A British couple suspected of terrorist-related activities are expected to be returned to the United Kingdom and face possible arrest.
Are we never to be rid of racialism in its evil forms, asks <b>Chris Roper</b>.
Terrorists are big fans of South African passports, because of the ease with which one can be faked or illegally obtained.
US President Barack Obama has signed into law a four-year extension of controversial counter-terrorism search and surveillance powers.
What difference will Bin Laden’s death really make?
Mistrust between Pakistan and the United States deepened on Tuesday as the US admitted Pakistan was not told about the Osama bin Laden raid.
The United States has killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, US President Barack Obama said in a dramatic televised address on Sunday.
Two explosions in Sweden’s capital tore at the fabric of a society that hadn’t seen a terrorist attack in more than three decades.
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/ 27 November 2010
A Somali-born teenager was arrested on Friday for attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
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/ 9 November 2010
Ugandan police issue a warning they will shut down public places that have not implemented anti-terrorism guidelines.
Nigerian terrorism accused Henry Okah’s bail application was postponed again in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
The United States has offered to remove Sudan from its terror list early to keep a January referendum that may partition the country on track.
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/ 14 October 2010
Three men accused of planning to bomb ANC leaders’ homes go on trial next year, the Phalaborwa Magistrate’s Court decided on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2010
The head of the British security service MI5 has warned that the United Kingdom faces a growing threat of terrorist attacks.
Two Pakistan nationals were arrested in Zimbabwe on suspicion of being illegal immigrants when they tried to cross into South Africa.
Zimbabwe’s police arrested two Pakistani citizens on suspicion of terrorism when they attempted to cross the border into South Africa.