Terrorism News

Five men facing trial for 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon returned to a military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the first time since February, to hear a U.S. vice admiral testify he wasn't pressured to bring charges against them.

A series of blog posts on Monday purportedly by Edward Snowden said he leaked classified details about U.S. surveillance programs because President Barack Obama worsened "abusive" practices instead of curtailing them as he promised as a candidate.

In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a tourist visits Hatshepsut's Temple in Luxor, Egypt.

President Barack Obama has appointed a new envoy to lead a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Emergency responders will test their skills this week in a regional disaster drill.

David Cameron said today that he is "as worried as anyone" about terrorist and extremist elements among opposition forces fighting to oust Bashar Assad in Syria.

The State Department on Monday is expected to announce the appointment of Washington lawyer Cliff Sloan to oversee the closure of the controversial Guantanamo detention camp, sources familiar with the decision said on Sunday.

Britain's electronic intelligence agency monitored delegates' phones and tried to capture their passwords during an economic summit held there in 2009, the Guardian newspaper reported Sunday.

A wave of car bombings and shootings left 23 people dead across Iraq on Sunday. In the southern Iraqi city of Basra, two car bombs exploded at almost the same time on Sunday.

Violence has spiked sharply in Iraq in recent months, with the death toll rising to levels not seen since 2008.

Barack Obama alleges that snooping is in the nation's best interest because it is a powerful tool needed to keep Americans safe from dangerous terrorists.

MI5 and anti-terror police have bugged Britain's high-security jails to stop them being used to launch Islamist attacks.

A former minister says more must be done to tackle extremist online material ahead of Government talks with Facebook and Google.

Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries.

The intelligence community has provided Congress additional counterterrorism justification for the government's controversial stockpiles of telephone and Internet records.

A DERRY couple charged with a number of offences under terrorism legislation, including possession of explosives, have been remanded in custody following a special sitting of Derry's Magistrates Court.

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network , anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a placard with a caricature during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria, June 14, 2013.

The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purportedly from him that was posted online Saturday.

Since public revelations that the National Security Agency is collecting telephone records and reviewing Internet communications in the U.S. and abroad, officials have been making the case that the programs are vital.

Killing innocent people for an idea, whether on London's streets or from the skies of Pakistan, is always wrong A protest against GuantA namo Bay, where Shaker Aamer is being held, in front of the US supreme court in Washington.