Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
I read a news article today stating that the Special Task Force of the Sri Lanka Police, with the assistance of Military Intelligence, recovered three well-preserved and buried 84 mm Carl Gustaf
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A local government body in northern Sri Lanka has unanimously approved a proposal to fully renovate the former home of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the late leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
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Terrorist networks have increasingly leveraged social media platforms as powerful tools for advancing their agendas. These digital spaces allow for the rapid dissemination of content, enabling groups to craft narratives that distort
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Al-Qaeda and its affiliates now command a global force far larger than the one that carried out the September 11 attacks, according to new intelligence assessed by the United Nations, underscoring how
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On January 23, 2026, two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed during an ongoing anti-Maoist operation in the Saranda Forest area near Kumbhdih village, under the Chotanagra Police Station limits
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Pakistan’s northwest faces a sustained security challenge, with Bannu district at the centre of this pressure. The area borders Afghanistan, where militant networks exploit terrain, tribal linkages, and cross-border movement. A joint
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Britain is preparing to introduce landmark legislation that would allow the government to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, marking a significant escalation in its response to Tehran’s violent suppression of anti-government
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Hundreds of fighters from Iraq’s powerful Kata’ib Hezbollah militia have reportedly volunteered for so-called “martyrdom operations” in the event of a direct war between the United States and Iran, signaling a sharp
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Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, however, lie not in surface-level factors but in the
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Kobani, the Syrian town that became a symbol of Kurdish resistance and the turning point in the fight against ISIS, is once again under siege — this time from the Syrian government,
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Maldives recorded no terrorism-linked fatality in 2025. The abduction and killing of blogger Yameen Rasheed by a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda on April 23, 2017, was the last terrorism related incident in
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Britain has quietly brought back a small number of women and children associated with Islamic State who were detained in Syria alongside Shamima Begum, according to officials running the camps where they
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The killing of 15 cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including ‘Central Committee Member (CCM)’ Patiram Manjhi aka Anal Da, carrying a bounty of INR 10 million, in an intelligence-led operation by
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The January 19, 2026 suicide attack on a Chinese restaurant in Kabul, which killed one Chinese national and six Afghans, and injured at least another five Chinese nationals, was strongly condemned by
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Editor’s Note: The following column draws on a detailed study of terrorist attacks and plots against elected officials in Europe between 2015 and 2025. It is based on research originally published in
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