Washington (dpa) - Local police outside Charleston, South Carolina stopped a vehicle in which they found what were suspected to be explosives, according to media reports late Saturday.
Italy faces its "biggest terrorism risks" from North African jihadists, including some linked to Islamist networks in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central Asia, according to a report by the Italian secret services.
A judge accused four British-born studentsand a schoolboy who planned to fight a holy war against British soldiers in Afghanistan of abusing their country's freedoms yesterday as he jailed them for a total of 13 years.The Recorder of London said the young men had enjoyed the protection of Britain's liberties but had been prepared to break its laws after becoming "intoxicated" with the language of jihad.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -Serbian war crimes prosecutors on Wednesday charged an ethnic Albanian man for his role in the 1998 killing of eight Serb civilians during the Kosovo war. Sinan Morina, who was arrested in 2006 in neighboring Montenegro and extradited to Serbia, was charged with "expulsion, imprisonment, torture, rape and killing of eight Serb civilians," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -Serbian war crimes prosecutors on Wednesday charged an ethnic Albanian man for his role in the 1998 killing of eight Serb civilians during the Kosovo war. Sinan Morina, who was arrested in 2006 in neighboring Montenegro and extradited to Serbia, was charged with "expulsion, imprisonment, torture, rape and killing of eight Serb civilians," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
HOUSTON --A U.S. citizen convicted of receiving training at a terrorist camp alongside al-Qaida members in his efforts to help overthrow the Somali government has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Al-Qaeda threatened in an Internet statement on Monday to escalate attacks against the "enemies of Allah" in North African countries, warning Muslims to stay away from government sites.
ROME - Police on Saturday arrested three Moroccans — a Muslim imam and two of his aides — and accused them of running a "terror school" at a small mosque in central Italy, where they allegedly trained in combat, learned about bombs and stashed away chemicals.
TAXI authorities have condemned an Islamic recruiting drive by some of Melbourne's Muslim cabbies using propaganda-style DVDs featuring radical preacher Sheik Khalid Yasin.
Three DVDs, two featuring Sheik Yasin, have been handed to the Herald Sun by an unwitting cab driver after a night trip.
Kafeel Ahmed, an accused in the failed UK terror plot, had a dream of constructing a housing complex on the outskirts of Bangalore where Shariat would have been the rule of law.
AL-QAEDA’S leadership secretly directed the Islamic militants whose armed revolt at the Red Mosque in Islamabad ended last week with more than 100 deaths after it was stormed by the Pakistan army.
LONDON (AFP) - A female Muslim juror has been arrested in Britain after allegedly listening to an MP3 player under her hijab headscarf during a murder trial, police said Monday.
The woman in her early 20s was spotted by a fellow juror listening to music as she was meant to be helping try the case of a pensioner accused of bludgeoning his wife to death after 50 years of marriage.
IRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaeda's No. 2 issued a new tape on Tuesday threatening to retaliate against Britain for having honored novelist Salman Rushdie, a U.S.-based intelligence monitoring group said.
Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, lashed out at Britain for having knighted Salman Rushdie last month.