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Police were on full alert after the US embassy issued a warning that Sandton was a target for a terror attack. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

The US Embassy’s Sandton terror alert failed to meet the basic parameters of security threat assessment

While the US has every right to protect citizens and its embassies, it should do so with the cooperation of the host country

Security forces inspect at the site after a Russian missile attack as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on July 19, 2022. (FILE PHOTO by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Russia’s war on Ukraine could turn private

The expanding use of private military and security companies in recent years suggests that they may take a leading role as the Ukraine conflict develops

September 11 tribute in light beams viewed across the East River from Brooklyn, 2014. (Andrew Cribb/Alamy Stock Photo)

Did 9/11 really change everything? It’s hard to tell if you’re brown

Witnessing 9/11 in New York, the fear and the unity, no one could agree if we were entering a new world, or a depressingly familiar one

11 September 2001: The Manhattan skyline after al-Qaeda flew planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre. Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8.46am and Flight 175 struck the South Tower at 9.03am, killing 2 606 people. Photo: Michel Setboun/Corbis/Getty Images

What difference did 9/11 make to the United States?

When the next terrorist attacks come, will US presidents be able to channel public demand for revenge by precise targeting, explaining the trap that terrorists set, and focusing…

This Sound Africa podcast investigates the persistent rumour that a black man named Hamilton Naki played a much bigger role in the first heart transplant surgery than he is given credit for. (Image: Sound Africa)

9/11 now: Terror, militarism, war and fear as the ‘war on terror’ continues unabated

It is no wonder that this war persists as terror groups expand further.

SA does good in resisting mechanisms of counter-terrorism industry

‘War on terror’ system works hard to create the fear and panic necessary for the implementation of draconian counter-terrorism measures.

According to one poll

Amnesty: Europe must admit to co-operation in CIA torture

Amnesty International is calling on European countries to come clean on their assistance with CIA operations so that justice can be served.

War on terror fails to stop surge in global attacks

The "war on terror" has failed to eliminate or reduce terrorism despite trillions being spent on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and operations elsewhere.

Local Muslims say the suicide bomb that killed eight South Africans was a senseless act of violence.

South Africa’s infantile foreign policy

The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.

Firefighters hose down a ­building following a car-bomb attack in the Iraq city of Kirkuk in June.

Wrath of Iraq war lingers

Although the West is pulling out its armies, the war is by no means over for the Arab world, a former adviser warns. Nick Hopkins reports.

In the latest bomb blast in Pakistan six shops were gutted and several damaged in the blast

US drone strike kills nine in Pakistan

A US drone aircraft has killed nine suspected militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, security officials say.

US withdraw from Iraq

US withdraw from Iraq, so now what?

As the last American soldiers finally leave Iraq, the United States state department assumes control of a complex and risky operation.

Pakistan threatens to pull the plug on war on terror

Pakistan threatens to pull the plug on war on terror

Pakistan has warned it could end its support for the US-led war on terror if its sovereignty is violated again after a Nato attack that saw 24 dead.

Pakistan hits back over Bin Laden furore

Pakistan hits back over Bin Laden furore

Pakistan’s president said on Tuesday accusations that his nation extends a safe haven to extremists were "baseless".

Tunisia to take in Guantánamo nationals

Tunisia said on Tuesday the North African country is ready to take back for legal examination all its nationals held at Guantánamo Bay.

Obama rejects release of detainee abuse photos

President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to release photos showing abuse of "war on terror" detainees.

Gates: US missile strikes in Pakistan to continue

President Barack Obama is retaining a powerful but controversial US weapon left over from the Bush administration’s battle against terrorism.

Bush defends legacy in final news conference

United States President George Bush mounted a defiant and emotional defence of his ”good, strong record” on Monday.

‘Terror, not India, is Pakistan’s enemy’

Pakistani intelligence chief tells German magazine his country is fighting terrorism, not India

Time to re-think war on terror

Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure