Government’s counter-extremism strategy faces court challenge
Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.
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An alleged member of al-Qaeda, thought to be part of the group blamed for the plane bomb plot, is being held in the UK as the government says more will be done to target terrorism overseas.
Channel 4 News examines the backgrounds of two wanted terrorists linked to the Yemen cargo plane bomb plot and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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 explosives found on two cargo planes heading to the US from Yemen is deeply worrying, but also shows al-Qaeda’s weakness, writes former Cobra Intelligence Group chairman Colonel Richard Kemp.
For more than fifteen years the extremist group Al Shabaab has been fighting a bloody insurgency in Somalia.
In another sign of geo-political change, President Macron has announced his intention to withdraw French troops from Mali.
While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east.
John Bolton was a military advisor to President George W Bush when the decision to invade Afghanistan was taken.
We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.
We spoke to Ahmad Wali Massoud, a former Afghan ambassador to the UK. His brother, Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
Ambassador John Bolton served as US ambassador to the UN under President George W Bush and as national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
We spoke to Abdullah Anas. He’s a former mujahideen, who fought alongside Osama bin Laden against the Russians, but split with him when bin Laden formed Al-Qaeda.
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
President Assad contradicted previous statements on Khan Sheikhun made by his allies in Moscow and members of his own government.
Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.