War on terror: special report

Relatives of the victims of the July 7 King’s Cross terror attack broke down in tears at the London bombings inquest as they recalled the harrowing events which left 26 people dead in 2005.

The Home Secretary and MI5 have lost their bid for intelligence officials to give evidence to the July 7 inquests behind closed doors.

The first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in an American civilian court has been acquitted on all but one of hundreds of terrorism charges.

German security is stepped up as Namibian police find a suspected bomb in the luggage of an Air Berlin plane bound for Munich, according to authorities.

A passenger who risked his life to help others after the July 7 bombings tells Channel 4 News about the horror of what happened and the anxiety of giving evidence at the inquests.

The ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees who will receive millions of pounds in a settlement with the Government will set aside a portion for the last Briton still in the US prison, Channel 4 News understands.

Survivors of the July 7 terror attacks have described the moment the Edgware Road bomb exploded. One of the victims said he felt like he was being electrocuted.

As George W Bush defends the use of “waterboarding” for saving British lives, Channel 4’s Job Rabkin looks at the former US president’s defiance and regrets from his time in office.

The privacy watchdog has warned that Google cannot be trusted to help manage the UK’s new anti-terror database.

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.

Freight flights are suspended and toner cartridges banned following the cargo terror plot. Experts tell Channel 4 News the devices would have detonated if intelligence had not foiled the attack.

Police in Yemen detain a female student and her mother on suspicion of mailing two bombs found on cargo planes in the UK and Dubai. Jonathan Rugman looks at how governments could respond to the plot.

Sir John Sawers, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service – known as ‘C’ in Whitehall, is the first serving MI6 chief to deliver a public speech on international terrorism – follow it live here.

Survivors have told the inquest into the July 7 attacks that those injured in the Aldgate blast had to “wait an hour before an ambulance arrived” to take them to hospital.

A survivor of the 7/7 London bomb attacks has criticised the slow emergency response that saw some victims die “in agony” after the blasts.