https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/326192/feed en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg Associated Press Associated Press British police said on Tuesday that they had rearrested two men on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service in a suspected plot at a US-run airbase in England last month. Counter Terrorism Policing said the men, a 24-year-old British national and a 25-year-old dual UK-Iranian national, were arrested under the National Security Act. One of the suspects was first arrested on September 27, when the suspected plot against the US-run base at RAF Fairford took place. The airbase in western... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3371559/uk-rearrests-duo-suspicion-aiding-iran-alleged-plot-us-run-airbase https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3371559/uk-rearrests-duo-suspicion-aiding-iran-alleged-plot-us-run-airbase Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:49:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hundreds of schools in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Hungary and Serbia were sent bomb threats on Monday, with some evacuated as authorities said the warnings appeared to be a hoax. It is not yet known whether the incidents were connected to each other. “Police investigating the circumstances of threatening emails sent to schools across Northern Ireland this morning … are treating the matter as a hoax,” authorities said. Northern Ireland police said up to 300 schools had received “the same emailed... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3371421/islamist-bomb-threats-sent-hundreds-schools-uk-hungary-serbia https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3371421/islamist-bomb-threats-sent-hundreds-schools-uk-hungary-serbia Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:04:37 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged accomplices that sought to revive plea deals which were later revoked. Mohammed and two others charged with involvement in the 2001 September 11 attacks – Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi – struck pre-trial agreements to avoid the death penalty in 2024, during the administration of president Joe Biden. After criticism by some victims’ families, Biden’s defence... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3371419/us-supreme-court-denies-bid-accused-9/11-mastermind-revive-plea-deal https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3371419/us-supreme-court-denies-bid-accused-9/11-mastermind-revive-plea-deal Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:48:40 +0000 Tom Hussain Tom Hussain Pakistan’s counterterrorism campaign against Taliban insurgents risks being undermined by public resentment, following the dismissal of the opposition-led administration of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. According to a statement issued by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office after an emergency cabinet meeting last Sunday, the decision to impose temporary federal rule was necessitated by the “provincial government’s deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism”. The KP... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/week-asia/politics/article/3371202/pakistan-risks-deeper-instability-political-feud-threatens-counterterrorism-efforts https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/week-asia/politics/article/3371202/pakistan-risks-deeper-instability-political-feud-threatens-counterterrorism-efforts Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Irish author Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support for the activist group Palestine Action, her publisher Faber said on Wednesday. Rooney has previously expressed her support for the group, which was banned as a “terrorist” organisation by the UK government in July 2025. It is not banned in Ireland, where Rooney lives. The proscription, which the organisation is appealing against, puts Palestine Action on the same blacklist as militant groups Hamas and... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370918/sally-rooney-books-cant-be-sold-uk-amid-palestine-action-ban-publisher-says https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370918/sally-rooney-books-cant-be-sold-uk-amid-palestine-action-ban-publisher-says Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:41:07 +0000 Reuters Reuters British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford airbase in Britain was “highly likely” to have been coordinated in Iran, and almost certainly directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The RAF Fairford base in southwest England, which had been used by US bombers to carry out strikes on Iran, became the focal point for a major ‌security response after five British men were arrested nearby in the early hours of September 27 on... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370646/uk-pm-burnham-says-irans-irgc-highly-likely-have-been-behind-raf-fairford-incident https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370646/uk-pm-burnham-says-irans-irgc-highly-likely-have-been-behind-raf-fairford-incident Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:56:23 +0000 Reuters Reuters An Omani Flydubai co-pilot had intended to seize a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and crash it into a terminal at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on September 30 in a suicide attack before he ‌was thwarted by the captain, the UAE attorney general said on Friday. Attorney General Hamad Saif al Shamsi’s statement did not appear to implicate Flydubai in any wrongdoing and contained the most detailed account yet from prosecutors about what they believe to have happened. Flydubai was not immediately available for... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3370407/omani-flydubai-co-pilot-planned-crash-plane-israeli-airport-uae-says https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3370407/omani-flydubai-co-pilot-planned-crash-plane-israeli-airport-uae-says Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:01:59 +0000 Reuters Reuters British counterterrorism police are investigating after two Latvian men were arrested inside a Royal Air Force base used by US personnel, authorities said on Thursday. The arrests come weeks after a suspected plot targeting another British airbase used by ‌the US military raised concerns about security at military sites across Britain. Police said there was nothing so far to suggest the incident at RAF Molesworth in eastern England was linked to the suspected plot against RAF Fairford in western... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370233/uk-ministry-defence-patrols-arrest-2-latvians-near-raf-base https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370233/uk-ministry-defence-patrols-arrest-2-latvians-near-raf-base Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:48:12 +0000 Resty Woro Yuniar Resty Woro Yuniar The recent arrests of 11 suspected terrorists by authorities in Indonesia underline how terrorism remains a persistent security challenge, with analysts warning that militant networks are communicating online through smaller and decentralised cells despite stronger enforcement. The Indonesian National Police’s counterterrorism force, Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88), said on Sunday that 11 suspected terrorists had been arrested in raids across West Java, Central Java, Central Sulawesi, South... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/week-asia/politics/article/3370060/anti-terror-arrests-indonesia-highlight-challenge-combating-virtual-groups https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/week-asia/politics/article/3370060/anti-terror-arrests-indonesia-highlight-challenge-combating-virtual-groups Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:30:06 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offence over a security incident at a US-run military airbase in England that authorities have linked to Iran. The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 160km (100 miles) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year’s war. Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of the base in the early hours of... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369956/uk-police-arrest-seventh-man-linked-security-incident-us-run-airbase https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369956/uk-police-arrest-seventh-man-linked-security-incident-us-run-airbase Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:05:43 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a threat linked to Iran ⁠had prompted the removal of American B-1 bombers from a British airbase. The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British men were arrested near the base – which Iran’s Revolutionary Guards previously said was a legitimate target – on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. “We had an idea that there might be a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369843/us-bombers-moved-uk-airbase-due-iran-linked-threats-trump-says https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369843/us-bombers-moved-uk-airbase-due-iran-linked-threats-trump-says Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:40:14 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Air Force has removed its bombers stationed at a US-run military airbase in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base. The bombers were redeployed back to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon official who was not authorised to discuss sensitive military movements and spoke on Sunday on condition of anonymity. Aviation watchers such as the Military Air Tracking Alliance have observed dozens of B-52... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369734/us-air-force-removes-all-bombers-uk-airbase-targeted-suspected-terror-attack https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369734/us-air-force-removes-all-bombers-uk-airbase-targeted-suspected-terror-attack Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:31:53 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Tehran was likely to be involved in an attack by a pilot on a Flydubai flight to Israel and that Iran would be “hit very hard” if it was. The co-pilot allegedly assaulted the captain before passengers managed to save the plane from crashing. Israel’s prime minister said the man had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination”. “I would say the answer, based on what I’m hearing, is yes but we’re working on it right now,” Trump said when asked by... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3369486/trump-vows-hit-iran-very-hard-if-linked-flydubai-attack https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3369486/trump-vows-hit-iran-very-hard-if-linked-flydubai-attack Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:36:02 +0000 Reuters Reuters British counterterrorism police investigating ⁠a suspected plot involving ⁠an airbase used by the US ⁠to target Iran said on Thursday they had arrested a dual UK-Iranian national on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. In an incident which triggered a huge police response, raised alarm among Western allies, and remains largely unexplained, five British men in their 20s ‌were arrested on Sunday on suspected terrorism and explosive offences near RAF Fairford in western England. The men were... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369483/uk-iranian-man-arrested-over-suspected-fairford-airbase-plot https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369483/uk-iranian-man-arrested-over-suspected-fairford-airbase-plot Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:52:48 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday said there were “strong indications” Iran was involved in suspicious activity at a UK airbase that triggered a major security incident this weekend. “There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford,” Burnham told the BBC, referring to Sunday’s bomb scare near the airbase in southwest England, which is used by the US military in its war against Iran. “Of course it remains an ongoing, complex,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369387/uk-pm-says-strong-indications-iran-involved-bomb-scare-us-run-airbase https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369387/uk-pm-says-strong-indications-iran-involved-bomb-scare-us-run-airbase Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:51:39 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A UK probe into a suspected bomb plot at an airbase used by the United States was mired in confusion Tuesday, as police said no explosives but a “quantity of petrol” was found in vehicles seized nearby. Police were called to the Royal Air Force Fairford base in southwest England on Sunday after a resident saw several vans “acting suspiciously”, triggering an evacuation of the nearby village and the declaration of a “major incident”. “Those vehicles have been subject to extensive examination …... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369251/mystery-over-uk-airbase-scare-police-find-petrol-not-explosives https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369251/mystery-over-uk-airbase-scare-police-find-petrol-not-explosives Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:21:50 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 30 others, officials said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region bordering Afghanistan. The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the provincial emergency service. Local police chief Safdar Baloch said most of those killed and wounded were... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/south-asia/article/3368910/suicide-bombing-police-checkpoint-pakistan-kills-least-11 https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/south-asia/article/3368910/suicide-bombing-police-checkpoint-pakistan-kills-least-11 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:18:29 +0000 Tom Hussain Tom Hussain For over two decades, Pakistan has waged countless counterterrorism campaigns against Taliban and Baloch insurgents in its western regions bordering Afghanistan and Iran, yet remains mired in a cycle of violence it cannot break. Scores of soldiers, policemen and civilians are killed every month in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southwestern Balochistan provinces, where near-daily attacks on security personnel, government officials and other prominent figures are carried out by... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/week-asia/politics/article/3368825/why-pakistans-endless-war-militants-fails-break-cycle https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/week-asia/politics/article/3368825/why-pakistans-endless-war-militants-fails-break-cycle Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:00:17 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will look into requests from families of September 11 victims to release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the attacks 25 years ago. Several families have long alleged that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence in the Saudi government and aided the hijackers. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis but the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks. The families have... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367375/trump-consider-releasing-9/11-records-after-families-request https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367375/trump-consider-releasing-9/11-records-after-families-request Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:01:21 +0000 Reuters Reuters Twenty-five years ⁠after the deadliest attack on US soil, Americans paused on Friday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania – and to wrestle with the consequences of September 11 that reverberate to this day. In New York, family members of the victims, many carrying pictures of their loved ones, joined Vice-President J.D. Vance and four former US presidents at ground zero in Lower... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367265/americans-mark-25-years-9/11-attacks-amid-enduring-grief-reflection https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367265/americans-mark-25-years-9/11-attacks-amid-enduring-grief-reflection Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:06:42 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did not disclose all it knew about air toxicity after 9/11. The release comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,977 people in the United States, mostly in the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York. In the years since, more than 9,400 have died from illnesses linked to their exposure to the area, according to a federal medical monitoring... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3366829/new-york-leaders-lied-about-toxic-air-after-9/11-mayor-zohran-mamdani-says https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3366829/new-york-leaders-lied-about-toxic-air-after-9/11-mayor-zohran-mamdani-says Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:47:43 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The United States ambassador to Israel condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again on Saturday, calling the behaviour an “act of terror” as he visited Palestinian American residents shaken by months of attacks. Mike Huckabee referred to such settlers as “terrorists”, a word that US officials usually reserve for Palestinian militants. “If there are squatters that come in and put up their own flags and take possession of something that does not belong to them, if they burn a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3366501/us-ambassador-calls-violent-israeli-settlers-terrorists-after-weeks-west-bank-unrest https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3366501/us-ambassador-calls-violent-israeli-settlers-terrorists-after-weeks-west-bank-unrest Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:50:54 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A federal judge on Monday postponed a trial in the US for a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, citing the discovery of new evidence that defence lawyers want to examine in the nearly 40-year-old case. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Wednesday for the federal trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in Washington DC. His trial will be the first in the US for the December 21, 1988, bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3365118/judge-postpones-us-trial-libyan-man-charged-1988-lockerbie-bombing https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3365118/judge-postpones-us-trial-libyan-man-charged-1988-lockerbie-bombing Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:15:29 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The United States on Monday removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, rescinding a decades-old designation that came with severe economic restrictions and marking another step in warming ties between the countries. The US Department of State also revoked its designation of al-Nusra Front – latterly known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – as a global terrorist organisation. The Treasury Department announced corresponding sanctions relief. Rebels led by HTS overthrew long-time... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3365113/us-removes-syria-state-sponsor-terrorism-list https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3365113/us-removes-syria-state-sponsor-terrorism-list Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:50:56 +0000 Reuters Reuters Australia’s capital will join a gun buy-back ⁠as part of ⁠a response to a ⁠shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday. Albanese’s centre-left government enacted laws in January for the gun buy-back, tighter checks for gun ‌licences and a crackdown on hate in the wake of the December 14 gun attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. The state, Australia’s most populous, became the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/australasia/article/3364923/albanese-canberra-join-australias-gun-buy-back-program-after-bondi-attack https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/australasia/article/3364923/albanese-canberra-join-australias-gun-buy-back-program-after-bondi-attack Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:36:45 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US authorities charged a woman who allegedly supported the Islamic State group with a terrorism offence on Thursday after she told an FBI informant she “wanted to destroy” the New York State Capitol building, court filings showed. Located in Albany near the Canadian border, the New York State Capitol is the nerve centre of the state government and contains both houses of the state’s legislature. Jessica Bowie, 35, was charged with attempting to provide material support to designated “foreign... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3364740/us-charges-woman-isis-inspired-plot-blow-new-york-state-capitol https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3364740/us-charges-woman-isis-inspired-plot-blow-new-york-state-capitol Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:21:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters German police said on Thursday that a suspicious object found on rail tracks in a Bavarian ‌town did not contain explosives, as initially feared. Earlier on Thursday, buildings near the object were evacuated in the town of Treuchtlingen for the item to ⁠be moved safely by a robot. Experts had earlier taken ‌X-ray images of the object that was found in the southern ‌part of the town. The public ⁠had ⁠been urged to steer clear of the area, which ‌was cordoned off, police also said on social... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3363934/germany-probes-suspected-explosive-device-rail-tracks https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3363934/germany-probes-suspected-explosive-device-rail-tracks Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:11:34 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Canadian police on Tuesday charged a man with making a bomb threat against the US consulate in Halifax, the latest security incident involving an American diplomatic post in Canada after two shootings at the US consulate in Toronto this year. Several streets downtown were evacuated after Halifax Regional Police found a car linked to the suspect, Ali Assakereh, parked near the consulate on Monday morning. The vehicle contained a propane tank and containers believed to hold flammable liquids,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3363702/man-charged-bomb-threat-against-us-consulate-canada https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3363702/man-charged-bomb-threat-against-us-consulate-canada Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:20:19 +0000 dpa dpa Around 10,000 people gathered in Cologne on Sunday for a demonstration in support of the queer community following the Islamist attack at Berlin Pride. The organisers of Cologne’s own Pride celebrations called for the rally two weeks after the shocking attack in the German capital. Participants gathered in the Deutz district on the eastern side of the Rhine River and marched across to the city centre, with turnout significantly higher than the 2,000 registered with police in advance. A dpa... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3363463/cologne-marches-queer-community-after-berlin-pride-attack https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3363463/cologne-marches-queer-community-after-berlin-pride-attack Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:57:34 +0000 SCMP SCMP We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering global relations from the past few weeks. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Nato launches defence projects to counter Russia and China Nato member states unveiled a series of defence initiatives in June aimed at strengthening weapons development, production and supply chains in response to security challenges posed by Russia and China. Read the full story here. 2.... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/diplomacy/article/3362444/us-saudi-nuclear-doubt-boko-harams-ai-terrorism-7-global-relations-reads https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/china/diplomacy/article/3362444/us-saudi-nuclear-doubt-boko-harams-ai-terrorism-7-global-relations-reads Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:00:06 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an anti-militant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, including police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where demonstrators had gathered near a police station, chanting anti-militant slogans and demanding peace, district police chief Omar Khan said. According to witnesses, shortly before the attack,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/south-asia/article/3362726/least-14-dead-suicide-bomb-attack-anti-militant-rally-pakistan https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/south-asia/article/3362726/least-14-dead-suicide-bomb-attack-anti-militant-rally-pakistan Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:31:28 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A truck bomb exploded on Saturday near a Colombian police station not far from the Venezuelan border, wounding 14 people just days before president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes office. The government in Bogota blamed rebels from the National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s largest active guerrilla group, for the early-morning blast in the northern city of Cucuta. Eleven police officers and three civilians were hurt in the incident, according to the latest official toll. Agence... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3362664/truck-explodes-outside-colombia-police-base-injuring-11-officers-and-killing-dog https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3362664/truck-explodes-outside-colombia-police-base-injuring-11-officers-and-killing-dog Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:49:49 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A Sri Lanka court sentenced former police chief Pujith Jayasundara to death on Friday for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners. In a majority decision, a three-judge bench ruled that the former inspector general had failed in his duties to stop the deadly attacks, blamed on a home-grown Islamist extremist group. Jayasundara, 66, can appeal against his sentence in the Supreme Court. Sri Lanka has not carried out the death sentence... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/south-asia/article/3362602/sri-lankas-ex-police-chief-sentenced-death-over-2019-easter-bombings https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/south-asia/article/3362602/sri-lankas-ex-police-chief-sentenced-death-over-2019-easter-bombings Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:13:56 +0000 Reuters Reuters The man who stabbed and partially blinded author Salman Rushdie at a speaking engagement in 2022 was found guilty on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges for the attack, which prosecutors said was incited by death threats over Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. Hadi Matar, 28, already serving a 25-year prison term on state charges of attempted murder for ‌the knife assault, now faces a maximum penalty of life behind bars when he is sentenced on his federal conviction, scheduled for November... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3362314/hadi-matar-convicted-terrorism-trial-over-salman-rushdie-stabbing https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3362314/hadi-matar-convicted-terrorism-trial-over-salman-rushdie-stabbing Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:33:28 +0000 Reuters Reuters A ⁠Norwegian teenager ⁠was convicted on Wednesday of ⁠conspiracy to commit murder in Britain after being recruited by a Swedish organised crime group that prosecutors said was being used by the Iranian government. Johannes Natland, now ‌19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield, northern England, in March last year with two firearms and ammunition in his possession. Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organised crime group used by ⁠the Iranian... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3362293/norwegian-teen-found-guilty-uk-murder-plot-tied-iran-linked-group https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3362293/norwegian-teen-found-guilty-uk-murder-plot-tied-iran-linked-group Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:49:27 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The man on trial in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie chose on Tuesday not to testify or call any witnesses in the federal terrorism case, which is expected to head to the jury as soon as Wednesday. Hadi Matar’s lawyer told the court that the 28-year-old – who already has been convicted of state-level attempted murder charges – would not take the stand at his trial on charges that include engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. “At this time, the defence rests,” lawyer Nathaniel Barone said.... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3362182/defendant-salman-rushdie-stabbing-declines-testify-federal-terrorism-trial https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3362182/defendant-salman-rushdie-stabbing-declines-testify-federal-terrorism-trial Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:46:18 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Singapore authorities said on Monday they had arrested three teenagers over separate plots to carry out shooting, stabbing and bomb attacks, warning of the threat of “youth radicalisation” in the security-conscious city state. The three boys, detained between April and June, had been “self-radicalised” online, adopting violent extremist ideologies, the Internal Security Department (ISD) said. They are held under the Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial. One of them, a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3362026/singapore-detains-3-self-radicalised-teens-over-planned-attacks https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3362026/singapore-detains-3-self-radicalised-teens-over-planned-attacks Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:12:41 +0000 Reuters Reuters A ⁠second suspect ⁠detained in connection ⁠with a deadly car-ramming attack on Berlin’s Pride celebrations over the weekend has been released, ‌the German federal prosecutors’ office said on Monday. “We continue to investigate broadly,” the prosecutors’ office told Reuters and declined to comment ⁠further. Spiegel on Monday cited sources as ‌saying that authorities released the person because initial suspicion that ‌he was a passenger in the ⁠vehicle ⁠at the time of the attack could ‌not be... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3361992/germany-releases-second-suspect-deadly-berlin-pride-parade-attack https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3361992/germany-releases-second-suspect-deadly-berlin-pride-parade-attack Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:11:16 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said. Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group. Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3361917/chief-suspect-berlin-pride-attack-shot-dead-police-say https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3361917/chief-suspect-berlin-pride-attack-shot-dead-police-say Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:15:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A friend of a man who went on a deadly stabbing spree at a Manchester synagogue was jailed for life by a UK court on Thursday for planning a separate terror attack with him. Jihad Al-Shamie went on a knife rampage targeting a mosque in the northwestern city last October that killed two people. Al-Shamie was later shot dead by police. His friend Mohammad Bashir, 31, last month pleaded guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts. Last August, he drove Al-Shamie on a trip to spy on the UK’s Defence... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3361640/man-linked-uk-synagogue-attacker-jailed-over-terror-plan https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3361640/man-linked-uk-synagogue-attacker-jailed-over-terror-plan Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:06:17 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Thai authorities said on Thursday they are searching for the people responsible for an attack in the country’s troubled deep south region that killed five soldiers and injured several civilians. About 10 attackers opened fire and threw pipe bombs at soldiers at a security checkpoint near a residential area in Narathiwat province on Wednesday evening before fleeing, according to the regional Internal Security Operations Command. Six civilians were injured during the attack, including a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3361556/thailand-launches-manhunt-after-5-soldiers-killed-civilians-injured-deep-south https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3361556/thailand-launches-manhunt-after-5-soldiers-killed-civilians-injured-deep-south Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:03:05 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The man convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie spent years researching the writer’s whereabouts before stabbing him on a lecture stage, federal prosecutors said Wednesday at the opening of his federal terrorism trial. It is a second trial for Hadi Matar, who was found guilty in a New York state attempted murder case last year. The federal terror charges focus more on Matar’s alleged motive for the attack on the renowned author and free-speech advocate in 2022. Prosecutors started working on... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3361512/terrorism-trial-opens-stabbing-author-salman-rushdie https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3361512/terrorism-trial-opens-stabbing-author-salman-rushdie Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:05:15 +0000 Reuters Reuters US Secretary of State Marco ⁠Rubio told officials from more than 60 countries on Thursday that the United States would seek to refocus international counterterrorism efforts on what he called “far-left terror”, arguing that left-wing violence had long been overlooked. The conference in Washington has sparked Democratic concerns that the Trump administration is politicising counterterrorism efforts and diverting resources from other extremist threats. In a speech, Rubio said the Islamic militancy... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3360849/us-focus-counterterrorism-efforts-left-wing-groups-rubio-says https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3360849/us-focus-counterterrorism-efforts-left-wing-groups-rubio-says Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:42:17 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Huddled in a room around a big screen, dozens of Boko Haram members listened intently as external consultants, whom they called “the white guys”, coached them on how to use leading artificial intelligence chatbots with laptops pre-installed with VPNs and encryption software. The workshop was one of several training sessions delivered by specialised AI “trainers”, likely members of the vast Islamic State network, to Boko Haram members in northeastern Nigeria sometime during 2023 or 2024,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/us/article/3360585/boko-haram-exploited-us-and-chinese-ai-chatbots-attacks-cambridge-study-finds https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/us/article/3360585/boko-haram-exploited-us-and-chinese-ai-chatbots-attacks-cambridge-study-finds Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:39:46 +0000 Reuters Reuters British ⁠counterterrorism police said on Tuesday that ⁠former government minister Ann Widdecombe, who was found murdered at her home last week, was clearly targeted, adding that officers were still working to establish the motive. “It is clear that this was a targeted attack. We are still working ‌to understand the extent of any planning or preparation and the motivation that sits behind that attack,” Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, head of Britain’s counterterrorism policing, told... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3360579/reform-uks-ann-widdecombe-murdered-targeted-attack-police-say https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3360579/reform-uks-ann-widdecombe-murdered-targeted-attack-police-say Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:08:26 +0000 Reuters Reuters Britain banned support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a linked group on Monday following a series of antisemitic attacks, using new powers designed to stop the use of state-sponsored proxies. The government and intelligence agencies have become increasingly ‌concerned about foreign powers paying organised crime groups or low-level criminals for surveillance, sabotage or other activities on their behalf. The ban follows attacks on Jewish-linked sites in London, including... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3360439/uk-bans-support-irans-irgc-and-linked-group-over-antisemitic-attacks-britain https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3360439/uk-bans-support-irans-irgc-and-linked-group-over-antisemitic-attacks-britain Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:34:43 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Police in Greece on Friday said they had arrested three people in connection to attacks this month that targeted ruling party politicians, killing a woman in a car explosion. Hours later, two more people were held over a 2010 deadly firebomb attack that left three dead. In the recent case, “three individuals have been arrested” by anti-terror police in Thessaloniki and the island of Crete, the police said in a statement. The July 1 attacks at dawn in the northern city of Thessaloniki targeted... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3360129/greek-anti-terror-police-arrest-three-after-car-blast-kills-1 https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3360129/greek-anti-terror-police-arrest-three-after-car-blast-kills-1 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:59:06 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A Google executive has told an Australian inquiry that a YouTube video falsely claiming a wounded survivor of an antisemitic massacre in Sydney was a crisis actor bloodied with make-up had met the platform’s standards and would remain online. Google Australia manager Rachel Lord was testifying on Tuesday at a government inquiry into the spread of antisemitism in Australia, including an attack by two gunmen on a Sydney Hanukkah celebration in December that left 15 people dead. Lord was questioned... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/australasia/article/3359801/youtube-says-sydney-massacre-crisis-actor-video-can-stay-online https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/asia/australasia/article/3359801/youtube-says-sydney-massacre-crisis-actor-video-can-stay-online Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:04:05 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A bomb blast rocked a cafe in Syria’s capital Damascus on Thursday, killing nine people and wounding 20, authorities said, in the latest challenge for the country’s Islamist leaders as they seek stability after more than a decade of war. The bombing – the deadliest since a suicide attack on a church last year – was not immediately claimed. It took place near the capital’s Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes of panic in the busy area. “The explosion that occurred in a... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3359221/bomb-blast-damascus-cafe-kills-6-syria-authorities-say https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3359221/bomb-blast-damascus-cafe-kills-6-syria-authorities-say Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:13:07 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Car bombs and gun attacks killed five members of Israel’s Arab minority Sunday, the latest violence to hit a community that has already recorded dozens of deaths this year. Criminal violence has escalated among Israel’s Arab minority in recent years, where gangs extort residents and business owners for protection and frequently kill those who fail to pay. In Jaffa, part of the Tel Aviv municipal area, a car bomb killed a man in his 40s, police and emergency services said, while Israeli news... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3358673/5-members-israels-arab-minority-killed-suspected-crime-spree https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3358673/5-members-israels-arab-minority-killed-suspected-crime-spree Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:27:33 +0000