Terrorism

People carry a wounded man after a suspected suicide bombing in Baidoa, Somalia, on Saturday. Photo: EPA-EFE

At least 16 dead in Somalia suicide bombings: police

The blasts came a day before Somalia marks the first anniversary of the deadliest attack in its history, a truck bombing that killed more than 500 people in Mogadishu

14 Oct 2018 - 5:48am

US pastor Andrew Brunson in July. Photo: AFP

Turkish court orders release of US pastor Andrew Brunson

13 Oct 2018 - 5:49am 1

The home of Paul Rosenfeld in Tappan, New York. The FBI raided the home on Tuesday and found a functional bomb in his basement that consisted of black powder inside a plywood box, according to a criminal complaint. Photo: AP Photo

Man planned to set off 200-pound bomb on election day

12 Oct 2018 - 7:00pm 1

The hearing comes a week after the International Court of Justice, in a separate case, ordered the US to ease sanctions reimposed on Iran

US urges UN’s top court to throw out Iranian case on frozen assets

9 Oct 2018 - 3:17am 2

Malaysian army helicopters and vehicles at the temporary army base camp at Felda Sahabat near Lahad Datu. Photo: EPA

Malaysia must win hearts and minds to confront regional terrorism

8 Oct 2018 - 1:37pm 3

Israeli security forces at the site of a shooting at the Barkan Industrial Park near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. Photo: AFP

Two Israelis killed by Palestinian shooter in West Bank

7 Oct 2018 - 10:24pm 2

Malaysian police officers. Photo: AP

Malaysia arrests 8 suspected militants, 7 of them foreigners

6 Oct 2018 - 3:13pm

Members of the US private security company Blackwater patrolling over Baghdad. Photo: AFP Photo

Afghan government rejects proposals to privatise war

5 Oct 2018 - 9:58pm 1

Maulana Samiul Haq (left) talks to Mutahidda Mujlis-e-Amal (MMA) Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Islamabad in 2002. Haq has called for China to help negotiations between Afghanistan and the Taliban. Photo: handout

‘Father of the Taliban’ calls on China to aid Afghan peace talks

2 Oct 2018 - 10:55pm 5

Islamic State militants patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah in 2014. Photo: AP

Terror attacks are down but global threat more ‘complex’, US report says

20 Sep 2018 - 9:11pm 5

Flowers placed on names of people killed on September 11 on the wall around the south pool at the ground zero memorial site in New York. Photo: AFP

US marks 9/11 with sombre tributes, new monument to victims

12 Sep 2018 - 6:30am 7

In a New York lab, a team is still avidly working to identify the remains of more than 1,100 unidentified victims of 9/11. Photo: AFP

17 years after September 11, hundreds of victims still not identified

10 Sep 2018 - 9:56pm 1

Egyptian security officials stand near the scene where they arrested a man carrying a crude explosive device near the heavily fortified US Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday. Photo: AP

‘Extremist’ held after backpack catches fire near US embassy in Cairo

5 Sep 2018 - 2:39am

Dutch police officers pointing their guns at a wounded 19-year-old man who was shot by police after stabbing two people in the central railway station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Friday. The suspect in the case said on Monday he was motivated by insults to Islam, according to prosecutors. Photo: AP

Insults to Islam reportedly motivated Amsterdam railway station attack

4 Sep 2018 - 4:08am 6

Police declined to comment whether there was a link between Friday’s attack and a competition to caricature the Prophet Mohammad

Two US citizens hurt in Dutch ‘terrorist’ knife attack

2 Sep 2018 - 10:41pm 1

File photo of police investigating the scene of a possible robbery in Fukuoka, Japan. Photo: Kyodo

Japan making ‘pre-crime’ AI to predict money laundering, terror attacks

31 Aug 2018 - 9:36pm 1

Ramanjit Singh, also known as Romi, 29, was on Thursday acquitted of handling stolen goods. Photo: Handout

Terror suspect Romi not guilty of handling HK$3 million in stolen goods

30 Aug 2018 - 10:53pm

Chinese troops based at China’s first overseas military base in Djibouti take part in a live-fire drill last year. The Afghan embassy said no Chinese military personnel would be stationed in Afghanistan. Photo: Handout

China is helping Afghanistan set up mountain brigade to fight terrorism

29 Aug 2018 - 10:25pm 71

An officer gives direction outside a Catalan regional police station on Monday after the police fatally shot a man who entered in the building holding a knife and allegedly shouting 'Allah’. Photo: EPA-EFE

Spain knife attacker was ‘gay and wanted to commit suicide’

22 Aug 2018 - 6:55am

Officers take part in the search of the residential building where the attacker lived in Cornella, Spain. Photo: EPA-EFE

Attempted knife attack in Spanish police station treated as terrorist act

21 Aug 2018 - 5:55am

Pedestrians on Oxford Street in London last month. A British man admitted to planning an attack on the street before his arrest. Photo: Bloomberg

British man admits to terror plot aiming to kill 100 people in London

11 Aug 2018 - 4:37am 2

Saudi King Salman with Malaysian prime minister at the time Najib Razak in Putrajaya, Malaysia in February 2017. Photo: AP

Malaysia shuts down Saudi-backed anti-terrorism centre

7 Aug 2018 - 6:48pm 4

Hamza bin Laden. Photo: AP

Osama Bin Laden’s son reportedly wed daughter of lead 9/11 hijacker

5 Aug 2018 - 7:20pm

Safaa Boular was the final member of Britain’s first all-female terror cell to be sentenced at the Old Bailey

18-year-old woman jailed for life over plot to bomb the British Museum

4 Aug 2018 - 3:32am 5

Two men are suspected of being militants nicknamed ‘the Beatles’ who kidnapped and murdered Western hostages

UK will allow US to execute ‘IS Beatles’ if they are extradited

24 Jul 2018 - 6:44pm 4

Post journalist Charmaine Chan recalls the fear that gripped Tokyo residents, glued to their TVs in a pre-internet age as police hunted for Aum Shinrikyo cult members in the weeks after deadly gas attack

How Shoko Asahara cult brought terror to Tokyo - a witness account

6 Jul 2018 - 8:28pm

Demetrius Pitts (pictured on Sunday) has been charged with trying to support terrorism. Photo: North Olmsted Police Department via AP

US man scouted Cleveland locations for July 4 attack, FBI says

3 Jul 2018 - 5:55am

Dustin Allen Hughes. Photo: Broward Sheriff’s Office via NBC 6 South Florida

Man admits making ‘hate-filled’ bomb threat targeting Florida mosque

30 Jun 2018 - 3:06am

Non-profit and state groups work to deradicalise jailed Islamists militants and empower them to make an honest living, but critics say such schemes fail to reach hardliners and many who take part had already abandoned radicalism

Indonesian schemes to help Islamist militants reform face criticism

29 Jun 2018 - 8:46am

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