Jonathan Rugman
Why the government believes we need new jihadi terror laws
It is a mark of how worried British security officials are that the coalition government is intent on pushing through new anti-terror laws.
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The three faces of French terror
Security services are seeking to identify three jihadi fighters that burn their French passports and call on fellow French citizens to join them in Syria and Iraq.
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Jonathan Rugman
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Woman cleared of funding terrorism told to ‘cover up’
Exclusive: As a woman is jailed for funding terrorism in Syria, her old school friend, who was cleared of the same offence, says she was told to “cover up” by Muslims and been abused online.
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Alleged terror plot in London: four men charged
Four men who allegedly planned a terror attack in London carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a police station and army barracks, Scotland Yard says.
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Theresa May’s comments on IS and WMDs ’embellish the threat’
The Home Secretary warns that if they are not disrupted, the Islamic State group could acquire weapons of mass destruction – but has that threat been ‘sexed up’?
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Where do foreign terrorist fighters come from?
As the UK debates joining a military campaign against the Islamic State, the latest data suggest more than 13,000 foreign fighters have swelled the ranks of the Islamic State.
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Abu Qatada cleared of terror charges in Jordan
Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic preacher deported from Britain after an eight-year legal battle, is released from prison after being found not guilty of terrorism offences.
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Why is Australia facing a domestic terror crisis?
Isis is urging followers to carry out public beheadings, says Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. How did the country become a target and how do counter-terrorism officials respond?
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President Obama: Islamic State a threat to entire region
The US will not be intimidated by Islamic State militants, President Obama says, after the White House confirmed that a video showing the beheading of a US journalist was authentic.
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Simon Israel
David Cameron’s ‘moment on terror’ a numbers game
It only takes one wannabe British jihadist to slip through the net so the government’s new anti-terror proposals must grapple with what measures can stop the flow.
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New powers for police to seize terror suspects’ passports
David Cameron tells parliament that police will have temporary new powers to seize passports of terror suspects at the UK border and to stop British-born suspected extremists from returning to the UK.
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Parties wrestle over new anti-terrorism powers
The prime minister is set to announce new measures in the House of Commons to counter the threat from the Islamic State, amid tense negotiations between the two coalition parties.
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‘A deeper threat’: Cameron on Islamic State
David Cameron says the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists is “a deeper threat than we have faced before”, as the UK’s terror rating is raised to its highest level in three years.
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Cameron: IS extremists ‘a threat to UK safety’
The advance of Islamic State extremists poses a “clear danger” to the future safety of Britain’s streets, David Cameron says as he explains his decision to arm Kurdish fighters.
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Jihadi wife guilty over ‘cash in knickers’ terror plot
The wife of a Muslim convert who went to fight in Syria is convicted of arranging for a friend to smuggle 20,0000 euros to him in her underwear.
