A series of attacks, attempted operations and counterterrorism raids across Iraq, Syria and Jordan has raised renewed concerns about the activities of Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells, with security authorities confronting an
The column examines the documented intelligence warnings and investigative failures preceding the Easter Sunday attacks, and asks whether the subsequent appointment of former CID Director Shani Abeysekara to lead a politically sensitive
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Fifteen of the 24 defendants tried over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday bombings were found guilty on Tuesday, while the remaining nine were acquitted and ordered to be released, according to a
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The race between the United States and China to dominate artificial intelligence is usually framed as a contest over military power, economic advantage and technological leadership. But a report from The Soufan
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by Our Defence Correspondent in Colombo A military intelligence document dated 11 April 2019 records information linking Zahran Hashim’s network to the Vavunathivu police killings and describes further intelligence about weapons, extremist
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Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and introduce limits on the number of foreign students allowed in each class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday, placing migration and
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Twenty‑five years ago, the United States endured one of the darkest days in its history. On September 11, 2001, al‑Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden hijacked four airliners. Three were flown
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Twenty-five years after 9/11, America is still opening its intelligence files and confronting an uncomfortable question: what did the state know, what did it misunderstand, and why
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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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