Al-Qaida

At least 38 people have been killed in a car bomb exploded near the Gwari area in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State on Sunday.

A US soldier could plead insanity if he is charged with the murders of 16 Afghan villagers last weekend, his lawyer tells Channel 4 News.

A soldier accused of shooting dead 16 Afghan civilians is flown to Kuwait following “legal recommendations”. The move comes amid a visit by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta.

David Cameron’s two-day visit to the United States, which begins today, will include discussions with President Obama over bringing home thousands of troops from Afghanistan next year.

With fears of reprisal attacks and a mass walk-out of Kabul’s parliament, Channel 4 News examines what lies ahead for the US soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians – and for the whole mission.

Taliban leaders pledge revenge after the fatal shooting of 16 civilians, including nine children, by an American soldier in Kandahar.

After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?

Home Secretary Theresa May visits Jordan to seek assurances that information obtained by torture would not be used against radical cleric Abu Qatada if he is deported from Britain.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day in 2009 with a device concealed in his underwear, has been given a life sentence.

As Abu Qatada is released from jail, British followers of the radical cleric post online sermons calling Britons “enemies of Allah” and lauding the preacher in the same breath as Osama bin Laden.

Muslim cleric Abu Qatada is set to be released from Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire. He will wear an electronic tag and is banned from using the internet or telephone.

Al Qaeda urges the Syrian opposition not to rely on the West or the Arab League for help toppling President Bashar al-Assad.

Home Secretary Theresa May vows the government “will do everything” possible to deport Abu Qatada before the start of the Olympics, despite a senior judge’s decision to bail the radical Muslim cleric.

Four radical islamists admit to plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange as part of a campaign of al Qaeda-inspired attacks London in the run-up to Christmas 2010.

The leaked report of Afghan detainees’ interrogation statements says more about US disenchantment with Pakistan than about its spy agency’s supposed grip on the Taliban, analysts tell Channel 4 News.