Google is creating a free tool to combat terrorist content in small social networks. The first two sites will begin testing in 2023
Google Jigsaw is developing a free tool to help small websites identify and remove extremist content. We help The project, developed with support from Tech Against Terrorism,…
"Support terrorism": Erdogan opposed the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he does not look favorably on the intention of Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Moreover, the Turkish leader called these…
"Support terrorism": Erdogan opposed the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he does not look favorably on the intention of Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Moreover, the Turkish leader called these…
Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing, review: a powerful search for the truth behind an atrocity
On 22 May, 2017, 22 people were killed and over 1,000 injured when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena, shortly after…
The Bin Laden Papers: al-Qaeda’s secret documents – and delusions – finally revealed
Might it have worked? Not according to former US general Joseph Votel. Al-Qaeda could have sunk the tankers, argues Votel, but this would not have destroyed the…
The truth about why 1920s Irish rebels destroyed hundreds of country houses
On my first visit to Ireland, nearly 40 years ago, my future father-in-law drove me over to see Tudenham Park, a once-majestic Palladian mansion overlooking Lough Ennell…
Abu Qurayshi: The IS leader dubbed ‘the Canary Caliph’ for snitching on jihadists
But scarcely a week before his death, he oversaw one the group’s biggest raids since he took charge. Last month, IS fighters carried out an audacious attack…
Islamic State leader blows up own family in ‘desperate act of cowardice’ during US raid in Syria
Using head torches in the dark, the workers looked for remains through chunks of concrete, children’s soft toys and women’s clothing in a bombed-out building. A kitchen…
My conversations with one of America’s worst serial killers
Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in 2009 – a fate Malvo was spared because of his youth, and amid pleas from his defence team that he’d…
Aafia Siddiqui: The terrorist known as ‘Lady al-Qaeda’ languishing in US jail
By 2004, she was the only woman on the FBI’s most wanted list of al-Qaeda terrorists. But her real notoriety came in 2008, when police in Afghanistan…
Hate preacher Abu Hamza’s son jailed for £342,000 money laundering plot
In 1999 another son, Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, was jailed for plotting to blow up British tourists in Yemen when he was just 17. Officers arrested Ibn-Sheikh in…
I wonder to this day…did her father survive? Photographer Heathcliff O’Malley on how capturing 9/11 still haunts him
“It was like a beautiful summer’s day, then I heard this enormous roar.” Heathcliff O’Malley, a veteran photographer with The Telegraph, had been sent to cover New…
Harrow by Joy Williams, review: toothless terrorists take on the USA
Joy Williams’s Harrow, her first novel in 21 years, has something basic in common with much recent fiction: it’s set in an America of the near future…
Prisoner serving life term who stabbed guard in terrorist attack ran Facebook account from jail
In the first ever terror attack inside a UK jail, Hockton, 27, and his accomplice, Brusthom Ziamani, 26, attempted to stab to death “kind and helpful” Neil…
Planet Normal: ‘Online radicalisation was always going to be a problem under lockdowns’
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world, and for Dr Rakib Ehsan, that includes the murky world of online radicalisation: “We’re living in a very different society…