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The Trump administration has put together a six-prong counter-terrorism strategy that does not focus on a single organization and is going to “pursue terrorists at source,” national security adviser John Bolton told reporters. Speaking on a conference call on Thursday, Bolton said the US will seek to counter “all” terrorists and their ideologies, rather than […]
The events leading up to 9/11 will soon be dramatized in Hulu’s new miniseries The Looming Tower. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright, the series will follow the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the 1990s, and how a rivalry between the FBI and CIA may have inadvertently contributed to […]
Published time: 9 Oct, 2017 10:41 President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing foreign citizens in the Russian armed forces to be sent on counterterrorism and peacekeeping operations abroad. Read more According to the decree published on the Russian government’s website on Monday, “the servicemen who hold citizenship of foreign states can perform their […]
Published time: 26 Sep, 2017 13:16 Indiscriminate powers for authorities to convict people under terrorism laws are in breach of human rights, a specialist lawyer has told RT. Human rights lawyer Shoaib M Khan hit out at the “huge powers” of authorities to detain people under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which he […]
Published time: 20 Sep, 2017 10:11 One of Australia’s top counter-terrorism officials has joined the ranks of people advising citizens to learn to live under a threat of terrorism, saying that a major attack on Aussie soil is inevitable. Read more “I don’t like to say it but it will happen,” Mark Murdoch told the […]
Published time: 6 Aug, 2017 13:37 Edited time: 6 Aug, 2017 13:55 A man carrying a knife and reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” tried to force his way through security checks at the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. French prosecutors have launched a counterterrorism investigation, according to reports citing judicial sources. The man was arrested near the […]
Published time: 29 Jul, 2017 23:25 Edited time: 29 Jul, 2017 23:27 Four people have been arrested in late night raids by Australia’s counter-terrorism task force over an alleged plot to blow up a passenger plane, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed. READ MORE: Go offensive! Australia military gets cyberwarfare unit to battle overseas hackers […]
Published time: 13 Jun, 2017 13:49 The Manchester Arena suicide bombing occurred partly because of poor UK security cooperation with Libyan authorities, security officials from the North African state claim. Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a homemade device at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May, which killed 22 and wounded scores more. Abedi, who […]
Charles Dharapak/AP The release of some un-redacted, classified information is prompting some questions in Canada. Documents obtained by CBC News revealed secret plans that outline Canada’s military response in the event of a terror attack. The material was part of a 2015 briefing given to Canada’s chief of defense staff Sgt. Jonathan Vance, CBC News reported. The news […]
Muslim women pray before a protest in lower Manhattan against the policies of President Donald Trump on February 1, 2017 in New York City. Photo: Getty The latest development in Donald Trump’s controversial treatment of the Muslim community is a new plan to rename the “Countering Violent Extremism” program to “Countering Islamic Extremism.” The plan […]
