Prosecutors 'attempt to impress the public': Kadyrbayev-Tazhayakov caseAmerican attorneys and legal experts have criticized the prosecutors for bringing overly harsh charges against Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev who are accused of obstructing justice in the Boston bombings case.
16 July 2014
NSA surveillance led to 100 arrestsThe US National Security Agency's electronic snooping led to "well over 100 arrests" and helped smash numerous terrorist plots, a privacy review panel said.
China detains 29 Xinjiang 'terrorist suspects'China has detained 29 people described as "terrorist suspects" in its ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said Thursday, as authorities crack down following several deadly attacks.
05 June 2014
Lost in translation: Boston case student did not understand Miranda rightsKazakhstani student Dias Kadrybayev arrested in relation to the Boston bombings declared in court that due to his insufficient knowledge of English he was manipulated into making statements that discredited him and lead to his arrest.
04 June 2014
Four police killed in attack on Tunisia minister's homeFour Tunisian police officers were killed in a "terrorist" attack overnight on the home of Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou in the west-central Kasserine region, a ministerial spokesman said.
28 May 2014
CICA adopts Shanghai declarationParticipants of the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) have adopted a Shanghai declaration.
23 May 2014
Twin Nigeria car bombs kill at least 118Twin car bombings in central Nigeria killed at least 118 people and brought entire buildings down Tuesday, in the latest affront to the government's internationally-backed security crackdown.
21 May 2014
British preacher Abu Hamza guilty on US terror chargesA New York jury convicted British hate preacher Abu Hamza on 11 kidnapping and terrorism charges Monday, opening the way for a judge to impose what will almost certainly be a life sentence.
More than 200 held in China terror video crackdownPolice in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
12 May 2014
Russia withheld intel on Boston bombing suspectRussia declined to provide the FBI with information about one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects two years before the attack, The New York Times reported.
10 April 2014
Portrait of Kazakhstani terroristKazakhstan’s political scientist Yerlan Karin studied the problem of terrorism in Kazakhstan and provided a detailed socio-demographic portrait of a typical local terrorist.
09 April 2014
Kazakhstani militants in SyriaThe number of Kazakhstanis participating in military actions in Syria has been overstated.
02 April 2014
15 civilians killed in Nigerian 'suicide attack': militaryFifteen civilians were killed in an explosion in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, after troops foiled what the military said was an attempted suicide attack by Boko Haram Islamist militants.