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Why western intervention is destined to fail in Mali
Britain is on standby and the US is already transporting French troops into Mali. But a new paper says the west is “betting on the wrong horse” by intervening in the region.
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Mali: Islamists counter-attack from the west
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mali launch a counter-offensive, taking the town of Diabaly, 400km from the capital Bamako, after three days of French fighter jet strikes on their desert strongholds.
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Suspected Saudi and UAE terrorist cell arrested
Militants from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are arrested in a joint Saudi-UAE operation, the official WAM news agency reports. The cell were reportedly planning attacks in the Arab Gulf.
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Drones case heads to appeal after court defeat
A Pakistani man who tried to force the British government to reveal whether it provides intelligence for US drone strikes loses his high court bid but plans to appeal.
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Where in the world is al-Qaeda?
Channel 4 News maps the new frontiers of the terror network al-Qaeda and its affiliates across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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‘Terror and stress’ in the shadow of the drones
Civilians in north west Pakistan are suffering “24-hour mental stress” because of the threat of drone strikes, drawing comparisons to the mood after the 9/11 attacks in the US.
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Imran Khan calls on US to ‘reveal names’ of drone victims
Imran Khan moves his anti-drone march in Pakistan to 7 October and, speaking to Channel 4 News, calls on the US to “reveal the identities of drone victims”.
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Obama concern over Yemeni extremism
The US president says he is worried Yemen is drawing foreign terrorists who once may have gone to Pakistan’s border, after a suicide bomber killed more than 90 soldiers in Sanaa.
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Spy who thwarted airline bomb plot ‘was British’
A double agent allegedly recruited by MI5 and MI6 was a British passport holder, according to American media reports.
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Double agent underwear bomber ‘is British national’
An undercover agent who foiled an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, according to US reports.
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‘No simple solution’ to underwear bomb threat
US officials say the discovery of a plot involving an improved “underwear bomb” shows militants are determined to build bombs that can pass through airport security.
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9/11 ‘mastermind’ tried in Guantanamo court
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.
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Bin Laden killing turns into US election row
A year after US special forces shot dead the world’s most wanted terrorist, bin Laden’s death has sparked a furious political row. A risky tactic by President Obama – now could it backfire?
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London’s fears over Olympic missiles plan
MoD tells 700 residents near Olympic site they will be safer with missiles on top of their east London building.
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Pakistan’s PM guilty of contempt in corruption trial
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is guilty of contempt for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president, but his sentence was only a symbolic three minutes in the courtroom.