Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was time to join air strikes against Islamic State in Syria because Britain cannot “subcontract its security to other countries”. Many Britons are wary of entering into another war in the Middle East after Western intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya failed[…]
OPINION by Omar Ashour – “I act on the basis of intelligence that I receive, I act on the basis of advice that I get … if the intelligence and the judgement are that it is a more-likely-than-not outcome [terrorist bomb], then I think it’s right to act in the[…]
OPINION by Rachel Shabi – It’s not really clear how the British government manages to do this, but it seems that every time it brings out a new counterterror strategy, it is even more wrong-headed than the last. The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act of February this year, the latest in[…]
Britain has killed two of its own nationals accused of fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and plotting attacks on British soil, in its first air strike in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. Despite not having a parliamentary mandate to take military action in[…]
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party looks set to continue in power, with projections and seats already announced giving his party a majority. The results seem to confirm a shock exit poll projection published by British broadcasters late on Thursday night that put the party way ahead of the[…]
Millions of Britons are heading to polls in an election analysts say will likely result in a hung parliament – a result in which no single party holds a majority of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. Polls across the country of 65 million people opened at 0600[…]
British police have released three teens on bail after their arrest for trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. The families of the boys – two 17-year-olds and one 19-year-old – alerted authorities when the teens failed to return from Friday prayers. Police alerted Turkish authorities,[…]
Two of the most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council are rejecting Libya’s call to lift a U.N. arms embargo so it can defend itself against the Islamic State group. The United States and Britain say the chaotic country needs a national unity government first. Libya’s foreign minister[…]
The report of an inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war will be delayed until after a national election in May, its chairman said, provoking dismay from politicians of all parties Wednesday. Sir John Chilcot, a former senior civil servant who is heading an inquiry that began in 2009, wrote[…]
Muslims in Britain will fast for 19 hours a day during the holy month of Ramadan which is considered the most difficult one in years as this year it falls during the summer. Muslims will therefore only have five hours between iftar (the breaking fast meal at sunset) and suhur[…]
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