Sri Lanka observed another bloody week (June 2007), where the Army and LTTE rebels fought several gun battles across the country. Last week, Sri Lankan government soldiers killed about 30 Tamil Tigers in a clash in a jungle in the islands restive east. This was hours after the Navy announced that it...

Osama bin Laden chartered a plane that carried his family members and few other Saudi nationals out of the US after the September 11, 2001 attacks – according to Federal Bureau of Investigation documents.

Turkish police arrested 23 people suspected of being linked to Islamic militant group al-Qaeda. The swoop is the latest of several in mainly Muslim but secular Turkey, which has been targeted by al-Qaeda militants in the past.

The United Kingdom advised its citizens against all travels around Mindanao, the southern Philippine island, following the abduction of an Italian Catholic priest and a fatal bus explosion in the region.

The US military launched a strike against an Al Qaeda target in northern Somalia on 01 June 2007. A US Navy destroyer fired from off the coast of the African nation. The destroyer’s guns appeared to be targeting only a single person, perhaps moving in a convoy.

Islamic inspired terrorism is still a threat in Switzerland, a report on Switzerland's internal security said last week (May 2007). The Swiss Federal Police Office's annual report said that the country was in the "danger zone" in Western Europe and it can also be used as a logistical...

Lebanon charged 20 Fatah al-Islam activists with terrorism charges on 30 May as government soldiers are battling jihadists from the militant group at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north.

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) recently issued a warning that vessels should stay 200 miles off the coast of Somalia; following a number of violent pirate attacks.

A heavy firing has been reported around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli. Lebanese Army on May 23, 2007 shot dead eight Fatah al-Islam extremists after the Islamic militants fired at Army positions. Fifty-five Lebanese soldiers have also been wounded in the gunfight.

A fierce gun battle ensued between rival gangs in Nigeria's southern oil producing state of Rivers on 29 May. The violence that left 15 people dead so far, erupted after change of the state governor by the authority. A rebel group named ‘The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta’...