Yemen is currently without a president and a government after Shia rebels took over the capital Sana’a causing ramifications for the region and the US’s war on terror.
The lawyer for a Guantanamo inmate says fear after the Paris attacks risks giving governments a licence to implement the sort of anti-terror legislation that saw her client wrongly detained.
Armed Shia militants belonging to Yemen’s Houthi movement have seized Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s chief of staff in the capital city Sanaa.
Several Belgian citizens arrested in Greece may be linked to terror plot as hundreds of troops are deployed to protect high-risk sites across Belgium.
A video emerges appearing to show Paris terrorist Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to Islamic State militants.
Australia, Britain and France have been hit by terrorists previously known to the authorities. Are the security services letting us down, or do we have unrealistic expectations of what they can do?
Simon Israel
Wednesday’s attack in Paris is a “terrible reminder” of Islamist extremists’ agenda of harming the west, the head of MI5 warns, suggesting that the threat was “unlikely to abate significantly for some time”.
The twelve people who died in the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices include some of France’s most celebrated cartoonists.
Following the death of at least four cartoonists in a violent gun attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, fellow cartoonists make art to express their shock and horror.
About 30 people are killed and more than 50 wounded after a car bomb explodes outside a police college in Yemen’s capital Sanaaa, in an attack carrying the hallmark of al-Qaeda.
The attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices – killing at least 12 people – is the latest and bloodiest in a series of events of increasing tensions in France.
An exclusive report on allegations the CIA has been working closely with Somali forces in the interrogation and torture of suspected al-Shabaab members – the militant group linked to al-Qaeda.
Investigators deliver a damning indictment of CIA interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks. Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein calls the findings a stain on America’s history.
Exposed US interrogation methods “wouldn’t be carried out” by the UK, says Richard Ottoway, Conservative MP and member of the National Security Strategy Joint Committee.
Omar Farooq dies in a drone strike a day after another senior member of the Islamist terror network is shot dead by the Pakistani military.
