17/12/24

A senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces has been killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was killed along with his assistant when the bomb exploded as they left an apartment building a few miles southeast of the Kremlin early on Tuesday morning. Mr .....

12/12/24

A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstance following a security alert in County Londonderry. The alert, which has now ended, caused a number of houses to be evacuated near Maghera. The man in his 50s, who is in police custody, has also been arrested on suspicion of .....

11/12/24

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been targeted in an assassination plot by a neo-Nazi group who branded her a "fascist who persecutes fascists". Twelve people - part of the far-right supremacist group known as Werwolf Division - were detained in country-wide raids by anti-terrorism police last week. Police .....

10/12/24

Counter-terror police are investigating reports that an Oxford Union speaker broke the law by “expressing support” for Hamas during a debate on Israel. During the debate, which took place last week, one of the speakers argued that the events of Oct 7 2023 were “not terrorism” but were instead “acts .....

10/12/24

A woman has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an inquiry into material taken into a prison. Counter Terrorism Policing North East also charged three other individuals following an investigation at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster. Rhea Wood, 35, of Shoreham Street, Sheffield was charged with .....

09/12/24

Police in India's capital Delhi have searched around 40 schools after they received anonymous bomb threats, a police spokesperson has told the BBC. The schools received emails threatening that bombs would be detonated unless $30,000 (£23,582) was paid to the sender, news agency ANI reported. No bombs have been .....

09/12/24

A fire which ripped through Melbourne's Adass Israel synagogue is being treated as a likely terror attack, Australian police say. Three suspects are being hunted over Friday's early-morning blaze, which left one man with a minor burn to his hand and caused extensive damage. Witnesses say they saw masked figures .....

06/12/24

Australia's prime minister has blamed antisemitism for an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne. Cars and buildings across the country have been vandalised and torched in protests against the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October last year. Police said they were searching for two people .....

27/11/24

Six people have been arrested over suspected activity linked to the proscribed group Kurdistan Workers Party - known as the 'PKK'. Two women and four men aged between 23 and 59 were arrested at separate addresses across London early this morning, as part of a crackdown led by the Met's Counter .....

27/11/24

One of America's most wanted men has been arrested in Wales 21 years after a double bombing in San Francisco. Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was held after an operation backed by counter terrorist police and North Wales Police on Monday. He now faces extradition to the US after being arrested at a property in a .....