Counter terrorism takes all kinds of forms. Sometimes the only recourse is to use lethal force.
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Hometown terrorists?
The actual place of incubation does not matter. What does is having a bevy of like-minded co-conspirators and access to relevant material, and that can happen anywhere.
On this day in 2015, four female suicide bombers were killed at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one of them detonated her explosives.
The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis occurred when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café.
On December 14, 1973, the ‘Charles Martel Group’ carried out a bomb attack against the Algerian Consulate in Marseilles, killing four and wounding 23.
It is important to keep threats in perspective and not give in to irrational fear – terrorism included.
The Clerkenwell explosion, also known as the Clerkenwell Outrage, was a bombing in London on 13 December 1867. The Irish Republican Brotherhood exploded a bomb to try to free one of their members being held at Clerkenwell Prison.
With all the focus on jihadis it is important to monitor far right anti-immigrant violence.
Every state has a right and a duty to protect its citizens from terrorism: that right does not extend to genocide. What is a government to do when it comes to acts of political or ideological violence on its soil? The answer is not complicated. Every state has the authority, and I would add the […]
Most terrorists are not very competent and often succeed in killing only themselves.