Jabhat al-Nusra: Terrorists or opposition assets?
As world leaders assemble in Morocco, opposition leaders question the US decision to designate the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as terrorists. Lindsey Hilsum reports from Marrakech.
793 items found
As world leaders assemble in Morocco, opposition leaders question the US decision to designate the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as terrorists. Lindsey Hilsum reports from Marrakech.
Mitt Romney mentioned it three times in last night’s presidential debate on foreign policy, and Hillary Clinton has floated the idea that terrorists based in northern Mali were involved in killing the US ambassador to Libya last month.
President Barack Obama takes his Republican opponent Mitt Romney to task over foreign policy in the final presidential debate before November’s election.
In the swing state of Florida – the scene is set for the third presidential debate, where both candidates are grappling with the dilemma of how best to champion America’s fortunes abroad.
As African and European leaders meet to discuss how to cope with the escalating dominance of terrorist groups in Northern Mali – is military intervention the best course of action?
Survivors and relatives of victims gather at locations across the globe to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Indonesia’s worst terrorist attack.
Radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects fail in their bid to halt their extradition from the UK to the US to stand trial on terrorism charges.
America’s so called “war on terror” did not end when George W Bush left office. Under Barack Obama the covert war entered a new phase, one of increasing reliance on missile strikes from aerial drones.
Imran Khan moves his anti-drone march in Pakistan to 7 October and, speaking to Channel 4 News, calls on the US to “reveal the identities of drone victims”.
A $100,000 reward offer for the murder of the maker of a film insulting the Prophet Mohammed was ‘an emotional outburst’, according to the Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK.
Twenty-three years after he was condemned to death by Muslim clerics, Sir Salman Rushdie’s memoir lifts the lid on his time in hiding. Channel 4 News looks back at the controversy.
Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah calls for fresh protests over an anti-Islam film as former prime minister Tony Blair urges religious leaders to condemn any action.
The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
“We weren’t sent in to murder him”. One of the elite Navy Seals who took part in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden gives details about the mission – but should he have gone public?
A major report finds some members of the Taliban are ready to negotiate a peace deal based on a long-term US presence in Afghanistan, but not under Hamid Karzai’s government.