
The People’s Republic of China has passed a law that requires technology companies to comply with all government requests for information, up to and including handing over encryption keys.
by Allum Bokhari28 Dec 2015, 1:11 PM PST0

Two men have been arrested in counter-terrorism raids in Sydney. Police thwarted what they say were plots to attack locations including the Royal Australian Navy base at Woolloomooloo Bay (pictured) and state police headquarters in the west of the city. Both
by Simon Kent23 Dec 2015, 3:04 AM PST0

Friday at his 2015 year-end news conference, President Barack Obama said when we monitor terrorists on social media it “raises questions about our values.” Obama said, “The issue of reviewing social media for those who are obtaining visas I think
by Pam Key18 Dec 2015, 12:45 PM PST0

President Barack Obama traveled to the National Counterterrorism Center for a Dec. 17 briefing on national security, in an attempt to reassure Americans that he was taking the threat of terrorism seriously as he prepares to leave Washington D.C. for his vacation in Hawaii.
by Charlie Spiering17 Dec 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

A new anti-terror hotline in Spain has received calls about 29 suspects in its first 24 hours of operation. The Spanish government launched Stop Radicalism on Friday in a move that Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz said would “involve the
by Nick Hallett7 Dec 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

London’s Metropolitan Police are monitoring more than 100 suspected jihadists, Britain’s most senior counter-terror officer has said. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said there are 118 ‘Syria-related’ live operations currently under way in the UK capital, including monitoring jihadists who have
by Nick Hallett22 Nov 2015, 6:18 AM PST0

Britain’s National Counter Terrorism Security Office has set out advice on how to respond to a Paris-style attack on British soil, advising bystanders to run and hide rather than play dead. In as sign that the government is taking the threat of a
by Sarkis Zeronian19 Nov 2015, 9:57 AM PST0

The number of armed police officers trained to deal with terror attacks in London is to increase by a third in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, with the total number eventually doubling, the head of the Metropolitan Police
by Nick Hallett18 Nov 2015, 7:49 AM PST0

In coordinated raids involving simultaneous arrests in several European countries, counter terrorism forces arrested 13 alleged jihadists at the crack of dawn Thursday, on charges of conspiracy for purposes of international terrorism. In a press conference Thursday morning at the
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.12 Nov 2015, 6:07 AM PST0

The National Union of Student (NUS) is to break its promises not to work with the Guantanamo Bay detainee and Jihadi-John sympathiser group ‘CAGE’, which called the ISIS terrorist a “beautiful young man”. Just days ago, the president of the
by Liam Deacon14 Oct 2015, 4:35 AM PST0

(Reuters) – Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be held at Guantanamo Bay, is to be returned to the UK after 13 years at the U.S. detention camp, the Foreign Office said on Friday. Aamer, a Saudi national who
by Reuters25 Sep 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

More than 3,000 home-grown Islamic extremists are currently being monitored by MI5 and counter-terrorism police, a 50 per cent increase in just seven years. Many of those are British teenagers, both male and female, who are being radicalised within weeks
by Donna Rachel Edmunds18 Sep 2015, 7:10 AM PST0

British born Islamic State (IS) terrorists have hacked into the e-mail accounts of government ministers, in a sophisticated spying operation linked to a plot to assassinate politicians and members of the Royal family. IS targeted the accounts of some of
by Liam Deacon12 Sep 2015, 6:49 AM PST0

Environmental campaigners and anti-capitalist activists could be considered terrorists under the government’s Prevent program, designed to counter terrorism, Police have said. They offered the advice to groups of teachers during training sessions on the strategy; teaching unions have reacted furiously.
by Donna Rachel Edmunds5 Sep 2015, 8:23 AM PST0

With the culturally traditional Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the horizon, the State of Israel has published a travel advisory warning of threats against Jewish sites in western and northern Europe. European Jewish Press reports the Counter-Terrorism Bureau (CTB)
by Sarkis Zeronian25 Aug 2015, 8:49 AM PST0

On Wednesday, senior counterterrorism official Daniel Rosen pleaded guilty to eleven charges of voyeurism and stalking, following his arrest in an online sting operation designed to catch sexual predators who take advantage of teenagers.
by John Hayward1 Aug 2015, 9:45 AM PST0

The battle to tackle radicalism on Britain’s university campuses is being severely hampered by student union leaders and academics, working in conjunction with British Muslim community leaders, a new report has found. Under the guise of protecting freedom of expression,
by Donna Rachel Edmunds14 Jul 2015, 10:28 AM PST0

The former head of British counterterrorism suggested this week that the best way to deal with ISIS sympathizers in the UK might be to let them have their wish and travel to the Islamic State, surrendering their passports on the way out. Former Scotland Yard assistant commissioner Robert Quick even recommended providing expatriates with charter flights to get rid of them more efficiently.
by John Hayward7 Jul 2015, 10:02 PM PST0

Armed police and emergency services joined the SAS in Central London today for the UK’s largest counter-terror exercise. The 48 hour operation – codenamed Strong Tower – is in preparation for a “marauding attack” and involves simulated shootings across the capital. Over 1000 police
by Liam Deacon30 Jun 2015, 6:16 AM PST0

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned a regional counter terrorism summit that Islamic State terrorists are coming with a “simple message, submit or die.” Speaking in the New South Wales state capital Sydney, he said: “Daesh [IS] is coming,
by Simon Kent11 Jun 2015, 3:46 AM PST0

Mainland Britain has been declared one of the safest places in the world in a new report, thanks in no small part to the security services preventing dozens of attacks in the past five years. At the other end of the
by Oliver Lane21 May 2015, 7:56 AM PST0

Tuesday at the White House press briefing, CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante asked if downplaying the fall of Ramadi as a temporary setback was “silly” because now that “Iraqi troops have cut and run,” and “there is no real
by Pam Key19 May 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

On Thursday, the White House announced the previously classified deaths of two hostages and two al-Qaeda leaders of American extraction, including the infamous Adam Gadahn, the terror gang’s roly-poly American propagandist.
by John Hayward23 Apr 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

Thursday from the White House President Barack Obama apologized for a counter-terrorism operation against al Qaida, in which American hostage Dr. Warren Weinstein and Italian hostage Giovanni Lo Porto were accidentally killed by an airstrike. The president said, “Since 9/11
by Pam Key23 Apr 2015, 7:49 AM PST0

Monday at a press conference, the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, Andrew Luger, detailed the arrest of six men who are accused of attempting to go to Syria and join ISIS. Luger said the men are being charged with “conspiring and
by Pam Key20 Apr 2015, 8:28 AM PST0