WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is debating the wisdom of designating the Nigerian … More »U.S. debates "terrorist" sanctions for Nigerian mi …
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The size … More »U.N. says Syria bombings show marks …
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Horror film … More »Horror film 'Chernobyl Diaries' draws …
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" with its ghostly tale of terror near the infamous, abandoned nuclear plant hits theatres on Friday after drawing protests from some who view it as sensationalizing a disaster that had tragic human … More »Horror film 'Chernobyl Diaries' draws some protests
How the emergency services responded during the massacre on Utoya island on July 22 last year. More »Norway: Timeline Of Utoya Massacre
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria's U.N. ambassador complained on Thursday that his mission is unable to open a U.S. bank account due to sanctions imposed on his country because of its 14-month assault on an opposition determined to oust Syrian President … More »Syria envoy says U.N. mission can't get bank account
ALBIREH, Lebanon (Reuters) - A Lebanese Islamist whose arrest on suspicion of helping arm Syrian rebels led to fighting in Lebanon says Sunni Muslims in both countries will no longer tolerate being the target of detentions and attacks. Shadi al-Moulawi, … More »Freed Islamist says Lebanon can't snub Sunnis over Syria
(Reuters) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, based in The Hague, said in statement that it will call the first witness to testify at the trial of Ratko Mladic on June 25, four weeks later than initially planned. The list … More »Factbox - Ratko Mladic faces 11 charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has designated the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, a group based in Lebanon and the Arabian Peninsula and accused of indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, it … More »U.S. State Dept names Abdallah Azzam Brigades terrorist group
US cyber-experts hacked al Qaida propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ones that showed the death toll of the terror group's attacks against Yemenis, Hillary Clinton said. More »Clinton: U.S. hacked al Qaida sites
ST. LOUIS, May 22 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - A JPMorgan executive and former Treasury Department official is considered by industry sources to be a top candidate to replace the dismissed head of the department's anti-money laundering unit, at a time … More »JPMorgan exec seen in field as U.S. money-laundering cop
Yemen vowed to fight "terrorism" regardless of the sacrifices as Al-Qaeda claimed it was behind a bombing on Monday that saw a soldier blow himself up in the middle of an army battalion, killing 96 troops. More »Yemen vows to fight as Qaeda bomber kills 96 troops
David Cameron has reaffirmed plans to withdraw British troops from Afghanistan amid fresh warnings the country could re-emerge as a terrorist haven once international forces have gone. More »PM reaffirms Afghan pull-out date
Yemen vowed to fight "terrorism" regardless of the sacrifices as Al-Qaeda claimed it was behind a bombing Monday that saw a soldier blow himself up in the middle of an army battalion, killing 96 troops. More »Yemen vows to fight as Qaeda bomber kills 96 troops
(Reuters) - Congress is stepping up pressure on the Obama administration to formally designate the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, which has alleged al Qaeda links, as a "foreign terrorist organization." Scott Brown, a Republican senator from Massachusetts, … More »Pressure grows to list Nigerian militants as terrorists
Two brothers and a cousin of prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy have appeared in court in Northern Ireland charged with terrorism offences including conspiracy to murder. More »Trio remanded on terror charges
Small numbers of British troops could remain in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the main force in 2014 to combat international terrorism. More »UK force 'may stay in Afghanistan'
Two brothers and a cousin have appeared in court in Northern Ireland charged with serious terrorist offences following an intelligence operation by the police and security service MI5. More »Family Members In Court On Terror Charges
CAMP ROUND MEADOW, Maryland (Reuters) - Britain may keep a small number of soldiers in Afghanistan to fight terrorism after 2014, when NATO forces are due to end combat operations, a senior British government official said on Saturday. It is the first … More »UK may keep troops in Afghanistan post-2014 to fight terrorism
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three protesters arrested on terrorism-related charges ahead of the NATO summit considered targeting U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election headquarters and the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, according to court documents released … More »Anti-NATO activists weighed Obama HQ attack, prosecutors say
LISBURN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Seven Irish nationalists were remanded in custody in Northern Ireland on Saturday on terrorism charges, in one of the highest profile security roundups in the province in recent years. Four of the suspects, including … More »Seven charged in major roundup of Irish militant suspects
Three relatives of prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy appeared in court in Northern Ireland on Saturday charged with terrorism offences including conspiracy to murder. More »Duffy relatives in court on terror charges
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Damascus has sent a letter to the United Nations accusing some Lebanese areas of helping al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to take root along the Syrian border, adding to its criticism of Turkey and Libya for allegedly providing … More »Syria accuses Lebanon of "incubating" terrorists
BELFAST (Reuters) - Three Irish nationalists were charged in Northern Ireland on Friday for involvement in "terrorist acts" including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions, police said following a high-profile investigation. The men were arrested … More »Northern Irish police charge three men over militant attacks
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada could be freed on bail by the end of the month. More »Abu Qatada given bail hearing date
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al Qaeda was responsible for two suicide car bombs that killed at least 55 people in Syria a week ago and that the death toll in the country's 14-month conflict … More »U.N. chief believes al Qaeda behind Syria car bombs
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when troops under his command massacred more than 7,000 unarmed Muslim boys … More »Horrors of Srebrenica set out at Mladic trial
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's state media is fighting hard to cast the country's unrest as an Islamist terrorist conspiracy rather than a popular uprising against the dynastic rule of President Bashar al-Assad. State television airs interviews with men confessing … More »Syria's television confessions fail to convince many
Police have been granted extra time to question two men on allegations of terrorism. More »More time for police terror quiz
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria accused the United States and Western countries on Saturday of colluding with al Qaeda-linked militants to target the country, in the wake of a string of explosions in Damascus and Aleppo the government has blamed on foreign-backed … More »Syria says U.S. allied to "terrorists" in country
Police in Cheltenham have lifted a 200 metre cordon around a garage at the centre of a terror investigation, allowing families back into their homes. More »Families Allowed Home After Terror Arrests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of U.S. congressional intelligence committees, who recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan, urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday to immediately designate the militant Haqqani network as a "terrorist" … More »U.S. lawmakers want Haqqani named ''terrorist'' group
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Lawyers for 15 Muslims in the United States barred from boarding commercial flights because they were on the U.S. "no-fly" list will on Friday ask a federal appeals court to reinstate their constitutional challenge of the … More »Muslim Americans challenge U.S. "no fly" list in appeals court
LONDON (Reuters) - Counter-terrorism experts expressed concern on Friday over U.S. leaks about an undercover operation that foiled a suicide bomb plot, saying its exposure may deter agents from volunteering for the risky job of infiltrating al Qaeda's … More »Suicide bomb plot leak worries security experts
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the "terrorist attacks" in Syria on Thursday, urging all parties to the 14-month conflict to cease armed violence and comply with a U.N.-backed peace plan. Two suicide car bombers … More »U.N. Security Council condemns ''terrorist attacks'' in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The undercover informant in the foiled underwear bomb plot linked to al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate was a British citizen, possibly of Saudi origin, counter-terrorism officials said. British intelligence played a central role in the … More »Informant in foiled bomb plot was British citizen - officials
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's foreign ministry said a twin bombing in the capital Damascus on Thursday was a sign the country is facing foreign-backed terrorism. It called on the United Nations Security Council to fight countries or groups supporting violence … More »Syria calls on U.N. to stop "terrorism"
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities said on Thursday that security agencies had foiled a plot by Islamic militants to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, an area they consider part of their historical homeland. Russia's … More »Russia foils alleged plot on Sochi Olympics
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two explosions shook the Syrian capital Damascus early on Thursday and smoke could be seen rising from the site of one of the blasts in the south-west of the city, residents said. There was no immediate information on casualties but … More »Two explosions shake Syrian capital - residents
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed or wounded in two "terrorist explosions" which struck a southern district of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state television said. Television footage showed dozens of mangled, burnt and smouldering … More »Dozens killed, wounded in Damascus blasts - Syria TV
LONDON (Reuters) - A radical preacher accused of giving spiritual inspiration to one of the 9/11 hijackers lost a legal bid in the European courts on Wednesday to challenge Britain's long-running attempts to deport him to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism … More »Radical cleric Qatada loses European appeal bid
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's fractured state and dysfunctional security apparatus provide al Qaeda's franchise there with a perfect breeding ground for bomb plots like the one the United States says it thwarted. Nearly three years after Yemen's then-leader … More »Yemen's fractured state ideal laboratory for bomb plot
Europe's human rights judges are to meet to consider whether Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada's appeal over deportation should be allowed to go ahead. More »Judges to consider Abu Qatada case