Afghanistan
British pensioner arrested in Taliban stronghold on Afghan border
Tag Archives: United Kingdom
Afghanistan
UK troops leave Helmand’s Sangin
Somalia
Somali pirates: eyewitness account of the threat to cruise ships
United Kingdom
Police arrested five “suspected Islamists” thought to be involved in a plot to assassinate the Pope in London. The five Muslim men, several of whom are from Algeria, are employed as street cleaners for a city contractor.
Pakistan
Karachi shut down after killing of exile Imran Farooq
United Kingdom
Britain facing a new wave of terrorist attacks, MI5 warns
Taliban
US takes on Taliban in UK’s wake
United Kingdom
UK – Defence cut threat to the special relationship
United Kingdom
UK – Concern grows over foreign involvement in spy’s death
United Kingdom
UK – Defence spending: thousands of troops to be cut
United Kingdom
UK – History ‘disappearing from schools’
Pakistan
British journalist freed by Taliban in Pakistan
United Kingdom
Britain’s envoy to Afghanistan quits after ‘Taliban strategy clash’
Iraq
UK army chief: How Blair and Brown betrayed our troops
Hizb-i-Islami
Hamid Karzai sets up ‘peace council’ to pursue talks with the Taliban
United Kingdom
US Marines, British advisers at odds in Helmand
Iraq
Radical Islam is world’s greatest threat – Tony Blair
Algeria
UK – Algerian web pirates 2,000 miles astray in siege of Belvoir Castle
Afghanistan
Afghan campaign turning the corner, says UK’s deputy PM
‘Dry run’ terror plot discovered on US-bound flight to Amsterdam
Pictures of the two suspected terrorists, from ABC News. Two Michigan men were detained in Amsterdam after arriving from Chicago and charged with “preparation of a terrorist attack.” Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezam al Murisi raised eyebrows when officials found a knife, a box cutter, and a cell phone taped to a Pepto […]
Al Qaeda
Norway ‘bomb plot’ underscores al-Qaida pitfalls
Afghanistan
David Cameron Afghanistan ‘attack’ base is revealed
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban attackers had pinpointed the helicopter David Cameron was in
Al Qaeda in Iraq
UK faces new wave of homegrown attacks: report
United States
US calls for Lockerbie bomber to return to jail
Pakistan
Pakistan – Geo News blocked over news of shoe hurling at Zardari
Afghanistan
Killing of British doctor in Afghanistan ‘a cowardly act’ says British Foreign Secretary
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Slain workers undaunted by risks, friends say
Pakistan
Zardari claims win in terror row with UK
United Kingdom
Hundreds expected at UK Muslim anti-terrorism camp