'You are a woman, we don't kill women.' A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo massacre recalls how she stared into the eyes of a gunman who'd shot her colleagues dead.

The devastated father of France's most wanted woman has handed himself in to police, declaring: "That is my daughter."

It might be assumed that a practice which has endured since the Dark Ages must have some usefulness.

Michael Adebowale made no attempt to hide his rage or his thirst for revenge in his online conversation with a jihadi leader in Yemen.

A large-scale uprising by people living under the totalitarian regime of Isis (Islamic State) is the most likely trigger that will lead to the undoing of the self-declared caliphate.

A plan to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009 failed because the explosives became 'degraded' after he wore the same pair of underpants for two weeks.

A Kiwi killed in a drone strike in Yemen had attended a terrorist training camp and may have been a foot soldier for al-Qaeda.

The United States and Gulf countries have been secretly backing rebel efforts to destroy al-Qaeda's most extreme wing in Syria, diplomats and rebels involved in the plan say.

The White House faces growing pressure to shore up the Iraqi Government as al-Qaeda fighters swarm into the power vacuum left by the exit of United States forces.

The spectre is looming of a second Syrian civil war, with the head of the opposition's official forces declaring that he is prepared to join regime troops.

British MPs are to question the Home Secretary, Theresa May, over why one of the world's most wanted al-Qaeda terror suspects.

The militant behind the Nairobi assault was deemed to be too radical and hot-headed even by Osama bin Laden, who rebuffed his request for a formal alliance with al-Qaeda.

In a land where allegiances are easily bought and sold, the price put by the Yemeni Government on the head of Ibrahim al-Asiri last week tells its own story.

The alert that led to United States diplomatic missions being closed down on three continents yesterday is "one of the most specific and credible threats I've seen, perhaps since 9/11".

Gwynne Dyer wonders what he did to deserve the 'honour' of being one of eight Western journalists Osama bin Laden wanted to send 'special media material' to.