Stories tagged "terrorism"

While the news media were preoccupied with the wind storms in Denver, Minneapolis and New Orleans, here are some stories you may have missed.

A UN peacekeeper in Lebanon dies while clearing unexploded arms left from the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

With The Non–Line of Sight Launch System, soldiers at the platoon level will be able to fire up to 15 tiny precision-guided missiles from a Port-O-Potty-size crate and guide them to strike moving targets up to 25 miles away.

A British engineer who was being held in Gambia accused of illegally mining uranium has broken out of the country in a daring escape.

The country's intelligence service, the AIVD, has stopped an espionage operation aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.

The forces driving international terrorism go well beyond religion. Martin Amis on alienation, the thirst for power, the quest for fame and the inevitable use of weapons of mass destruction.

The Mad Mullah's meting out jurisprudence.

The military translator from Queens sat in a wheelchair in a hospital room on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The man’s name is Syed Shah and he was grievously wounded in July in a bomb attack on a military convoy in Afghanistan.

Middle east or iraq or africa terrorism ? Come now!

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