A man was arrested at a US airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker. Hussain al-Khawahir was held at Detroit airport on Saturday and was also...
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One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top spy job. The officer, who remains...
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Israel's top legal adviser has rebuffed criticism of authorities who have been asking travellers to show their e-mails at the border, saying the checks on certain foreign nationals were lawful. ...
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Chester Bowles, a former US ambassador to India, once called for a single assistant secretary of state to cover the whole of Asia in order to strengthen the US State Department's capacity to think...
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Indonesian police on Wednesday shot dead one suspected militant, arrested two others and seized bombs during a raid in a central district that is considered a hotbed of terrorism.
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Arrested Indonesian terror suspects have revealed plots on the parliament building and to attack police in the name of jihad, a senior official said on Friday.
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The Hong Kong police force is to spend HK$2 million to upgrade and expand its anti-terrorist capabilities ahead of the inauguration of a new chief executive and the 15th anniversary of the...
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The legislature will this week consider a thorny question: what is terrorism? The mainland's first anti-terrorism legislation will provide detailed definitions of terrorist acts, and designate an...
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Beijing has defended Hong Kong's controversial role in the British-led rendition of a suspected terrorist from China to Libya.
It said the city's administration had 'full authority...
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Warfare is changing. Amid the historical questions shrouding the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks - America's troubled place in the world and the ultimate costs to the US of its...
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Taiwan staged a large anti-terrorism and disaster-response drill at Taipei's port yesterday, simulating various kinds of terrorist attack, a radiation leak and contamination by poisonous...
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When I was in Beijing over the Easter holidays, I was told about a Chinese couplet that goes: 'Japan saved the Communist Party; Islam rescued China.'
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