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On 5 February, Jordanian officials confirmed that the intellectual godfather of al-Qaida, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, had been released from prison.
The threat of terrorism and use of social media to recruit followers will be examined at an international summit hosted by the Federal Government in Sydney today.
Big banks believe that lawsuits alleging that they are financing terrorism cause "de-risking," and the banks are warning that this is a bad development. What are they talking about?
One of the most frequently asked questions about terrorism is also the most intractable. Why? Why do they do it? Why do people join terrorist groups and participate in acts of terrorism?
On the heels of Transportation Security Administration workers flunking a security test at airport checkpoints, the results of a new audit show that -- while the agency keeps a robust system for screening commercial airport workers -- it still
Islamic State group militants and their followers have discovered an unnerving new communications and recruiting tool that has stymied U.S. counter-terrorism agencies: instant-messaging apps on smartphones that encrypt the texts or destroy them almost immediately.
After a two-day meeting in Germany's Bavarian mountains, the Group of Seven, or G-7, summit of major world leaders concluded Monday with vows to act on a range of issues.
Canada is seeing a spoke in behind-the-scenes funding for terrorists, finance minister’s office says
Canada’s financial intelligence unit has reported a sharp increase in suspected terrorist financing cases to the government’s three top national security agencies over the past two years, according to figures released by the office of Finance Minister Joe Oliver.
Daniel Benjamin – the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the United States Department of State from 2009 to 2012 – noted in January (at 10:22): The total number of deaths from terrorism in recent years has been extremely small in the West.
The level of turmoil in the Middle East is greater than at any other time in my nearly fifty years of watching this region. Amid this perfect storm comes the most dramatic shift in Saudi policy since at least World War II—marking a critical turning point in Saudi Arabia’s relations with its historical protector, the United States, and with its neighbors in the Middle East.