Monday 26 October 2026 Three men have been arrested after a deadly attack on a church in Jordan last week. Nine people were killed and dozens wounded when a Greek Orthodox Church in Karak was struck during a funeral on Friday. Located south of the Middle Eastern country’s capital,...
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Footage broadcast on state TV shows three attackers approaching Greek Orthodox church and firing shots Reuters in Al-Mushairfeh Sat 24 Oct 2026 15.24 BST Nine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a funeral at a church in Jordan in a rare attack on the country’s Christian minority....
Jack Burgess and Paul Kirby, BBC Europe 23 October 2026, 12:09 BST One person has been killed and four others wounded in a gun attack in a Parisian suburb which police have said they are treating as a terrorist incident. Several drive-by shootings took place on Friday – first in Trappes...
Tara Mewawalla, BBC News 22 October 2026 Members of the public and businesses need to think more about how they would cope with natural disasters, cyber-attacks or state-sponsored terrorism, the defence secretary has said. Wes Streeting warned people needed to be more aware of emerging risks facing the UK...
Ella Kipling, BBC News 21 October 2026 A teenager who was 16 when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport has been jailed after being convicted of providing cyber-security support to groups including al-Qaeda. Yusuf Shah, from Ilford, was also found to have downloaded documents including instructions on how to...
Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News Sydney 19 Oct 2026 As increasingly frequent acts of violence against politicians have shocked the globe in recent years, Australia has watched on with a contradictory feeling: that attacks like that could not happen here, and that it was only a matter of time until...
Joe Tidy, Cyber Correspondent BBC World Service 16 October 2026 German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted...
Ian Aikman, BBC News 17 Oct 2026 The government must do more to protect key infrastructure against “hybrid attacks” from Russia, a former national security adviser has told the BBC. Lord Ricketts said more money should be spent on the defence budget, as well as improving the resilience...
ByDaniel Sandford, BBC News 16 October 2026, 11:57 BST A teenager who travelled from Norway to the UK to carry out a “hit” for an organised crime group has been sentenced to 20 years’ detention. Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, with...
Caitlin Doherty, BBC News 15 October 2026 A Taco Bell cashier’s alleged plot for a mass shooting at a Hindu temple near Chicago was thwarted by a tip-off from one of his colleagues, investigators say. Alexandros Paporakis, 19, from Palatine, Illinois, appeared in court on Wednesday charged with one...
The Conversation
No. 1Martyn’s Law: the last six months before the clock starts
No. 2After Leipzig: the drone threat is no longer theoretical
No. 3Sabotage-for-hire: why your company is now on a hostile state’s target list
No. 4Younger, faster, less ideological: the new radicalisation curve
No. 5The chatbot in the attack cycle: what the evidence on AI and terrorism actually shows
No. 6From Heaton Park to HAYI: the state-terror hybrid
No. 7Cars and blades: why low-tech attacks remain the hardest to stop
No. 8The executive as target: protective intelligence after Thompson
No. 9Islamic State’s southern pipeline: why the Sahel is now Europe’s problem
No. 10The hoax as a weapon: this week’s aviation bomb threats
No. 11When the freezer is the target: cyber-physical convergence
No. 12The insider for hire: how criminals and states now buy their way in
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