Amid leaks of information relating to the Manchester attacks, we discuss what might be done with Michael Scheuer the former chief of the CIA’s Bin Laden tracking unit. And with Hugh Orde, the former President of the Association of Chief Police Officers who spent nearly a decade as Northern Ireland’s Chief Constable.
Alex Thomson
Tuesday’s attack on the US airbase Bagram, which killed four American troops, conforms to what Taliban spokesmen said would happen, announcing their ‘spring offensive’ back in April.
Matt Frei
After two fatal terrorist attacks in the space of two months, it is time to ask how we can stop thousands of potentially angry young men from being turned to terrorism.
Matt Frei
There are so many poignant images competing for attention this weekend. One came from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where two former Presidents -Bush and Clinton- joined Vice President Biden to commemorate the passengers of United Flight 93.
Jon Snow
The killing in Pakistan of the Governor of Punjab by his own bodyguard on Tuesday, marks a devastating new high water mark both inside and outside that country, blogs Jon Snow.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow asks questions about the treatment of terror suspects by both the British and American Governments as a Guantanamo Bay detainee is found not guilty on 284 out of 285 charges.
It seems al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has just pulled off a spectacular coup and scared us all ahead of Halloween, writes Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
The suicide bombing in Tajikistan has wider implications for the volatile, repressed and impoverished region of Central Asia, writes Nick Paton Walsh.
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow asks whether the ‘war on terror’ is still being fought and whether the rules have changed.
Colonel Greville Bibby, ever the pukka officer, was trying to impress the deputy governor. They were sitting on red cushions in an empty building the military had commandeered. Chah-e-Anjir was under Taleban control until a few weeks ago, and they were there, along with the British ambassador, Mark Sedwell, to reassure the population that the…
The police chief sat on his swivel chair beneath a gold framed photograph of President Karzai, the national flag on one side and a giant plastic plant with red flowers the size of dinner plates on the other. “We have eradicated corruption in our police force!” said Colonel Asadullah Shirzaid, a small smile creeping across…
Heat. It’s not something, that, if you live in Bangkok, you thought you would still be susceptible to. Bangkok’s sticky, like a constant reminder of how hectic and dense the city is – it’s brimming humanity. But out here, in Jalalabad, where we are en route to Kunar, near Afghanistan’s north-eastern border with Pakistan, the…
Jon Snow
Does anyone out there understand why we are in Afghanistan under arms? Is this the least understood, least cared about conflict involving British troops dying under fire since, well, Northern Ireland? That’s not fair, people did understand Northern Ireland. They didn’t like bombs exploding in British mainland cities.