The Philippine president has condemned the "brutal and senseless murder" of a Canadian man by Abu Sayyaf militants. Robert Hall was kidnapped by the Islamist group in September along with three others from Canada, the Philippines and Norway. Fellow Canadian John Ridsdel was killed by the group in April after a...
A man claiming allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS) stabbed a French policeman to death before being killed when police stormed a house, in what officials say was a "terrorist act". The attacker took the officer's partner and their son hostage in their home in Magnanville, near Paris. The partner was found...
BRITISH Special Forces officers are assisting one of France’s counter terrorist teams following fears a ‘sleeper cell’ from the UK has slipped into the country to launch an attack on the Euro 2016 tournament. Europe and Britain’s secret services are reviewing the worst case scenarios possible after...
FRENCH authorities have slapped a ban on bars and bistros showing the European Championships on large outdoor screens because it would be “impossible” to protect fans from terrorist attacks. The council in Marseille, where England play Russia tomorrow night, controversially wrote to the city’s cafes, bars and...
The Islamist group Hamas has praised an attack on civilians in Tel Aviv Wednesday night in which four Israelis were killed. The two shooters, identified as Palestinians, opened fire at the Sarona Market — a popular food and shopping complex near the Israeli Defense Ministry— shattering what was a serene night with...
The French government has released a mobile phone app to alert the public in the event of a terrorist attack. The app is being released ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday. It will alert geo-located users "in case of a suspected attack", the interior ministry said in a statement (in...
The leader of the attack on Garissa University in Kenya has been killed, officials in Somalia say. Kenya's government said Mohamed Kuno was behind the attack in April 2015 that killed 148 people. Regional forces in Somalia said Kuno was one of 16 people killed in a raid overnight in Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia....
Militants from the so-called Islamic State have launched a dawn counter-attack as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Falluja. A day after troops advanced through the southern suburb of Nuaimiya, scores of IS fighters attacked them, army officers told news agencies. The army defeated the attackers but suffered...
EXCLUSIVE: A DRONE attack from Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists is a REAL possibility and Britain is “woefully” unprepared, a top security boss has claimed. It is “only a matter of time” before crazed jihadis adapt an easy-to-use and affordable drone, which can be bought for as little as £100 from...
Iraqi government forces have made gains in their offensive to drive Islamic State militants from Falluja — one the country's two major cities in IS hands. The nearby town of Karma, the first line of IS defence, is now in the army's hands, a BBC correspondent says. Large numbers of elite combat troops have also...
DEPRAVED Islamic State militants are torturing children to death in makeshift prisons — even after they have confessed to bogus charges. Around 20 prisoners managed to escape from an ISIS prison in Syria and have now revealed the murderous extremists are brutally torturing their inmates. Equipment such as “torture...
A TERROR suspect and Afghan refugee scouted out some of the UK’s most famous landmarks as potential targets on a tour of Britain covered up as a holiday, police fear. Anti-terror experts in Italy are quizzing Hakim Nasiri after he was arrested for being part of a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) terror cell plotting attacks...