Tag Archives: Terrorism

Souleyman was brought in for questioning on Wednesday, with officers also searching through his home in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sanliurfa, the singer’s manager said. The arrest was likely provoked by recent reports that the musician had traveled to an area in Syria controlled by the Kurdish militias known as …

A FBI email from early October “provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special interest group against concerned parents,” Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday. The disclosure “calls into question the accuracy and completeness” of Garland’s testimony before …

The blast involved a taxi that pulled up at the hospital shortly before 11:00 GMT, Merseyside Police said in a statement, adding that one person died in the incident and one man was hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries. Photos circulating on social media showed a vehicle engulfed in flames.  The blast …

Shortly after the Iraqi PM’s residence in Baghdad was hit by what Iraq’s Security Media Cell said was a “booby-trapped drone,” the United States State Department released a statement decrying the attack and offering to help the investigation. “We are relieved to learn the Prime Minister was unharmed,” State Department …

Australia is not where you would expect an information battle to be waged between Israel and Palestine. But a new book by one of Australia’s leading journalists, John Lyons, titled ‘Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment’, alleges that a veritable content massacre has occurred. “The Israel lobby in Australia is the …

Parliament passed the bill on its third reading on Thursday, voting to amend two previous pieces of legislation that took effect in 2002 and 2012 in order to empower authorities to go after suspected terrorists.  Should the law receive final royal approval, anyone determined to be “planning” or making “other …

There are certain issues in the UK and further afield that have become sacred cows – issues that, when raised, elicit only one “correct” response, and that is to nod your head uncritically. One such issue is that of domestic violence and the way it is policed. For example, the …

“We have now had to recognize that although we have been able to defeat terrorism, which is endangering our security, at the present time we have not achieved all our goals,” Merkel said on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The chancellor then suggested focusing on safeguarding those few accomplishments, …

Those of us around at the time clearly remember the events of 20 years ago, watching on TV in open-mouthed disbelief as two huge aircraft slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, a third slammed into the Pentagon just outside Washington DC and a …

“My military estimate is… that the conditions are likely to develop of a civil war,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin on Saturday. Following its blitz takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban now controls most of the country except for last pockets of resistance …