Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran along with many senior LTTE leaders was killed in the military confrontation with Sri Lanka’s armed forces in May 2009. With that military
Recent hostage releases across the Sahel have produced striking moments of diplomacy. Last week, the Tuareg-led Front de libération de l’Azawad (FLA) released 82 Malian Armed Forces soldiers it had held captive.
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The terrorist threat confronting Asia is becoming more complex even as some of the world’s most prominent extremist organisations face sustained pressure, according to a new United Nations assessment. The threat level
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Pakistan is experiencing one of its deadliest periods for terrorism in more than a decade, with violence in 2026 increasing in both frequency and lethality. July alone recorded more than 600 deaths,
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Prices for the busiest shipping routes through the Panama Canal have reached record levels as falling water levels linked to an intensifying El Niño and strong demand connected to the Iran war
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Over the past month, two modules of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were neutralised in West Bengal-Jharkhand, and Gujarat-Madhya Pradesh, with 11 JeM operatives were arrested. In West Bengal-Jharkhand: On August 3, 2026, Special Task
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Two Sikh activists. Two assassination plots. Two democratic allies. Yet three years after the events that shook relations between India, Canada and the United States, the legal record points in opposite directions.
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As terrorist violence continues to exact a devastating toll across Africa, governments and international partners are relying increasingly on airstrikes to contain militant networks. While critics argue that aerial campaigns cannot dismantle
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The latest issue of the CTC Sentinel published by the Combating Terrorism Center traces how the Islamic State has transformed China from a peripheral concern into one of its principal ideological and
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The relative calm that had prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) through the early months of 2026 was disrupted on the evening of July 31, 2026, when terrorists opened fire on two
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The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) continues to exploit instability across South and Central Asia while embracing emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and virtual currencies, to strengthen its operations. As the United
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