By Charles Clover in MoscowRussian authorities have begun a criminal investigation into a suspected terrorist bomb attack that derailed a luxury train en route from Moscow to St Petersburg on Friday night, killing at least 26 and injuring around 100
Russian authorities discovered traces of an improvised bomb Saturday on the tracks of the rail line between Moscow and St. Petersburg where a train derailment killed at least 26 people in what appeared to be the nation's worst terrorist attack outsi
CARACAS, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez has defended imprisoned terrorist Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan was an important revolutionary fighter who supported the cause of the Palestinians. The Venezuelan president praised Carlos — whose r
BERLIN -- Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a cleanshaven, muscular gunman sporting the alias Abu Ibrahim the American. The gunman did not speak b
Just weeks after trumpeting the results of a military offensive in the Swat Valley, the Pakistan army suddenly finds itself under attack on multiple fronts. A day after an Élite unit of army commandos secured the release of 39 hostages, bringin
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The devastating terrorist assault on Pakistan's military headquarters, which ended early Sunday after nearly 24 hours, exposed the threat of extremist groups operating in the heart of the country and the vulnerability of
One of two men arrested in France on Thursday on suspicion of having links with an Islamist terrorist group was working as a researcher at the Cern “big bang laboratory on the French-Swiss border, the nuclear research body said on Friday.The man, be
On the 25th anniversary of the Brighton bomb, Lord Tebbit says the use of the term terrorist has become muddled.In 1984, an IRA bomb attack on the Grand Hotel killed five during the Conservative party conference. Lord Tebbit and his wife were badl
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