Three Sikh extremists were found guilty today of a knife attack in London that nearly killed the retired senior Indian army general who led a military operation against armed separatists holding out in the Golden Temple of Amritsar 29 years ago.
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Eight arrested in Spain over recruitment to al-Qa'ida-linked Jihadist groups fighting in Syria
Friday 21 June 2013
Ring thought to have acted as support group to enable would-be fighters to get to training camps
'We try to collect everything and hang on to it forever': US intelligence agencies' cosy relationship with academia and business may be hard to unwind
Monday 10 June 2013
Revelations of snooping into private data and communications on a massive scale by the Obama administration has shed a little daylight on the widespread and lucrative links between American intelligence agencies, industry and academia.
Special Report: The tortured activist whose fate tells Turkish protesters: don’t seek refuge in Greece
Saturday 08 June 2013
Bulut Yayla, a Turkish archaeology student and left-wing activist, says he travelled to Greece in April this year to escape imprisonment and torture he endured under the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Voices in Danger: Jailed for 18 years for criticising Ethiopia's government, journalist Eskinder Nega vows to keep fighting
Tuesday 04 June 2013
The Independent has seen a defiant letter smuggled out of jail by a man who pines for democracy
Camp Bastion another black mark on Britain's war in Afghanistan
Friday 31 May 2013
The idea that our forces would act as a break on American excesses was a pipe dream
Blast from the George W Bush past: Obama to name James Comey as next FBI director
Thursday 30 May 2013
President Obama is expected to nominate James Comey, a widely respected former federal prosecutor and deputy Attorney General during the George W Bush administration, as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the country’s most important law enforcement agency.
French soldier attack: Known radical Islamist arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder Cedric Cordiez
Thursday 30 May 2013
A known radical Islamist was arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a French soldier yesterday, after DNA discovered on a juice bottle was used to identify him.
Woolwich terror attack: Suspect Michael Adebowale in court over Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Woolwich suspect will appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court to face a charge of murder and of illegal possession of a firearm
Pakistan: Taliban No 2 Wali ur-Rehman reported dead in US drone strike
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Missiles claim senior terror target, say intelligence sources
French investigate Woolwich ‘copy-cat’ attack on soldier in Paris
Sunday 26 May 2013
The soldier was wounded in the incident which happened as he patrolled the French capital's La Defense business district with two comrades
Poll: David Cameron left the country for a holiday in Ibiza. Should he have gone?
Sunday 26 May 2013
Nobody could say that David Cameron's job is easy, but the last few weeks in particular must have tested his resolve.
French soldier stabbed in the neck in Paris
Sunday 26 May 2013
Police are seeking a suspect of North African origin
Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
Friday 24 May 2013
Latest: Second suspect named as footage emerges of pair being shot by police
President Barack Obama defends US drone strikes - but moves to rein them in as Guantanamo Bay closure rears its head again
Friday 24 May 2013
US President seeks to assuage anger – at home and abroad – over unmanned flight attacks
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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