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President Barack Obama takes his Republican opponent Mitt Romney to task over foreign policy in the final presidential debate before November’s election.
Ministers at the Home Office tried persuading Jordan to pardon the radical Islamic cleric, Abu Qatada, in their attempt to have him deported from the UK, a tribunal hears.
Channel 4 News maps the new frontiers of the terror network al-Qaeda and its affiliates across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
A cleric once described as Osama bin Laden’s right hand man in Europe is fighting deportation to Jordan where he claims evidence obtained by torture will be used against him.
Lawyers for the radical cleric argue “unrelentingly harsh” UK conditions have caused health problems that should be addressed before extradition to the US on terror-related charges.
The last western detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay military base, home to hundreds of suspected terrorists captured by the United States, has been returned to Canada.
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.
“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?
At least 58 people die in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces, as insurgents gun down soldiers at an army post and bomb police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs.
Matt Frei
The razzmatazz of the convention season is over and the pundits have given their verdicts. Now the hard slog of the election fight begins all over again, after two weeks of politics that have barely changed a single poll.
This was not a time for soaring rhetoric: not for a country in the grip of an economic downturn. President Obama’s speech was carefully modulated – but did it leave voters wishing for more?
Matt Frei
What kind of president is Barack Obama? Certainly not the kind that America thought it had elected almost four years ago. Matt Frei blogs on Mr Obama’s expansion of cyber warfare and use of drones.
Militant Libyan cleric Abu Yahya al-Libi, described as al-Qaeda’s second in command, has been killed by a US drone strike in Pakistan, officials confirm.
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada, who was once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, is denied bail because of security fears during the Olympic Games.
A double agent allegedly recruited by MI5 and MI6 was a British passport holder, according to American media reports.