War on terror: special report

A man who seized four hostages in a bank in the southwestern French city of Toulouse has freed two people, according to police.

The Yemeni army commander leading the fight against militants in the south of the country has been killed in a suicide attack, according to officials.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.

Iraq faces an uncertain future as the last US military units hand over control to local forces, amid continuing political uncertainty and sectarian violence.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the uncertain future facing Iraq and the wider region as US troops prepare to withdraw from the country at the end of this month.

A petition calling for a UK trial for a terror suspect who has been detained without charge for seven years reaches 100,000 signatures, meaning the case can be debated in parliament.

“After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” President Obama has announced all US troops will be brought home by the end of this year.

The man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day 2009 by detonating a bomb in his underpants pleads guilty to all charges against him.

Exclusive: The army’s top lawyer during the Iraq war tells Channel 4 News his superiors blocked him when he tried to make British forces treat prisoners in a lawful way, writes Callum Macrae.

The senior commander of the Haqqani network in Afghanistan has been captured by Nato-led forces, according to the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).

As a US drone strike in Yemen kills cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading al-Qaeda figure, Channel 4 News assesses his influence on terror attacks in the UK and abroad.

Six men accused of terror offences have been remanded in custody. They were arrested in an unarmed, pre-planned police operation in Birmingham last week.

Admiral Mike Mullen claims the Haqqani militant group blamed for an attack on the US embassy in Kabul is a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service.

America’s covert war on terror is expanding across the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with the building of secret drone airbases from Ethiopia to the Seychelles.

A student arrested for downloading a document about al-Qaeda as part of his university research has won £20,000 compensation from Nottingham Police. Darshna Soni went to meet him.