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
Tucked into a Sept. 10, 1998, intelligence report sent to President Bill Clinton’s White House was a warning that, more than a quarter-century later, reads with striking prescience. A CIA analyst wrote
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A U.S. military judge has set June 5, 2028, as the new trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and three co-defendants: Walid
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by Our Special Correspondent in Colombo Long before the explosions tore through churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday 2019, an Indian police officer was following a trail of information
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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks shifted American fears towards threats originating overseas, public concern has increasingly turned inward, with Americans now considerably more worried about attacks by domestic extremists than
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Twenty-five years after the attacks that transformed the United States and were witnessed around the world, the country is preparing to mark the anniversary of 11 September in a strikingly different political
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On September 5, 2026, a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Jagdalpur, Bastar District, Chhattisgarh, convicted 10 surviving cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including three women, for their
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The crisis in Tirah Valley, Khyber District, is ultimately a test of whether security can be transformed into sustainable civilian peace. For years, militancy, difficult terrain, and the region’s proximity to the
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For decades, successive US national security strategies have warned that violent non-state actors could acquire sophisticated technologies and use them to overcome conventional military advantages. Weapons of mass destruction, advanced military systems
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by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
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As reported on September 2, 2026, the Afghanistan United Front (AUF) killed a Taliban official, Qari Aghagol, from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the 18th
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On August 26, 2026, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Assam Police, in a joint operation with the Hailakandi Police, arrested Fazal Islam Barbhuiyan (21), an alleged operative of the Pakistan-based
More The military trial of alleged 11 September mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three other defendants is scheduled to begin at Guantánamo in 2028, nearly 27 years after the attacks that killed around
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Syria has been removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism, marking another significant step in the Trump administration’s easing of sanctions against the country and potentially making it
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On August 16, 2026, Juel Bhuiyan, 26, a suspected associate of the Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB) operative Nazmul Hasan Mamun, alias Bomaru Mamun, was arrested at Demra in Dhaka, in possession of two handmade
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On August 19, 2026, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist, Abdullah, was killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Bajaur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On August 17, 2026, five Fitna-al-Khawarij (FaK, a state
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