Terrorism News

WASHINGTON: A Lashkar-e-Taiba plot to launch new terror attacks in India with the help of two Pakistan-born Chicago men has taken a new turn with FBI agents recovering two inflammatory Al Qaeda videos from the house of one of them.

MAJOR Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam described by the US government as a "spiritual adviser" to two of the suicide hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 2001.

As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship -- common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier.

Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz on Sunday presented a plan to negotiate with Hamas and establish a Palestinian state on 60 percent of the West Bank within one year.

The Tamil Tigers are finished as a military outfit but a small group of their feared suicide bombers still remain in Colombo, a top Sri Lankan official visiting India said.

Switzerland has opened its own investigation into the case of a nuclear physicist France suspected of al-Qaida links, an official said Sunday.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept.

After two days of inquiry into the mass shooting at Fort Hood , investigators have tentatively concluded that it was not part of a terrorist plot.

With the words "Let's roll" _ the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt _ U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.

NEW DELHI: India and the 27-nation European Union Friday decided to wrap up a free trade area agreement within a year as the two sides inked a civil nuclear pact and agreed to expand cooperation on issues ranging from terrorism and climate change to the reform of global financial bodies.

A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm.

Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities." In a statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in response to Thursday's vote that Israel "maintains the right to self-defense," ...

Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated his country's request for a high-level international envoy to investigate the extent of foreign involvement in recent bombings of government institutions.

In this combo, victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown.

A 23-year-old Egyptian man acquitted of terrorism-related charges won't face deportation.

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept.

An American citizen convicted on terrorism charges in the United Arab Emirates said on Thursday he confessed under torture and suspected that U.S. authorities played a role in his detention and prosecution in the Gulf country.

A pharmacy college graduate was indicted Thursday on new charges in an alleged terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and shoot people at American shopping malls.

Britain cannot afford to "walk away" from the mission in Afghanistan if it is to prevent future al Qaida attacks on the streets of the UK, Gordon Brown will warn.

Reports say as many as seven people have been killed and a dozen more hurt following a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.