TERRORISM

The Colombian government and the leftist Farc rebels have begun peace talks in Norway in a bid to end 50 years of armed conflict.

A Libyan Islamist militia commander accused of leading the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi said Thursday he was there that night, but denied he was involved in the attack.

Spanish police launched an operation against a Chinese gang in Madrid that had been laundering hundreds of millions of dollars made from evading import duties, prostitution and extortion.

A woman from Pennsylvania will face life in prison when sentenced for her role in a plot to assassinate an anti-Muslim Swedish artist.

Oct. 12 marks the 10th anniversary of a terrorist attack in Bali that killed 202 people. Although the group responsible has lost influence, similar ones continue to form.

Qassem Aqlani, a 20-year U.S. Embassy veteran, was shot in a drive-by motorcycle shooting by a masked gunman.

A militant group connected to Al-Qaeda set off two suicide bombs near a military compound in Damascus, killing around 100 people.

Can a country as famously tolerant, integrated and prosperous as Norway feel safe again, now that Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the misfortune that hit Norway July 22 last year in the form of two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks, is behind bars serving his 21-year sentence? Maybe not. “There is a real chance that 7/22 can happen again,” Kjetil Stormark the Norwegian author of the recently released book, “The Oslo Killer Files: Private emails of a mass murderer,” told the International Business Times in an email interview.

Two charities tied to Hamas in Gaza, al-Waqfiya and al-Quds, now have sanctions on them imposed by the U.S. Treasury for supporting Hamas families and projects.

The Syrian foreign minister accused the U.S. and other nations of supporting "terrorism" in his country, during a speech to the U.N.

Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye and had been a member of the Saudi Arabian branch of Muslim Brotherhood in his youth, his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri revealed in a video posted online Wednesday.

Clinton says terrorist affiliates are working with other extremists to erode the democratic transition in North Africa, as seen in Benghazi.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton debunked Thursday rumors that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was on an al Qaeda hit list before he was killed in Benghazi last week.

The Yemen wing of al Qaeda has asked Muslims to kill more U.S. diplomats in Islamic countries, terming the anti-Islam film made in the U.S. as a another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam, stated a Reuters report citing a posting on an al Qaeda website.

The poll, conducted a week before the wave of attacks on U.S. consulates in the Middle East, found voters believe Democrats are just as formidable as Republicans when it comes to protecting the U.S. from terrorism.

Rush Limbaugh has an interesting theory about the May 2011 killing of Obama bin Laden. On his radio show Wednesday, the conservative pundit stated that Al Qaeda may have allowed bin Laden to be killed in order to make Barack Obama look good.

rs of the banned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades were behind the assault on the Benghazi embassy on Tuesday, using the pretext of an inflammatory online video depicting the Islamic prophet Mohamed to launch the attack which killed Christopher Stevens, according to sources.

Sept. 11 is not just a day that marks a national tragedy for the U.S., but also one for Chile that happened in 1973, when the U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet took power and ruled with an iron fist for over 15 years.

On Monday, Al-Qaeda confirmed that the head of Al-Qaeda's operations in Yemen had been killed. On Tuesday, the Yemeni Defense Minister survived an assassination attempt in the form of a car bomb.

Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in the Arabian Peninsula, Said al-Shihri, and six others were killed in a missile strike in Yemen's Hadramawt province Monday, the U.S. and Yemeni officials said. The missile was fired from a U.S.-operated unmanned drone.

Nigerian police are conducting 24-hour surveillance of all telecom installations after the terrorist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a recent spate of attacks on mobile phone towers in the north.