Britain's role in the secret abduction of terror suspects came under intense new scrutiny with the return to the UK of Binyam Mohamed yesterday after more than four years in Guantánamo Bay. Senior MPs said they intended to pursue ministers and officials over what they knew of his ill-treatment and ...

The plotters behind the Mumbai attack, which left more than 170 people dead, had placed India's financial capital on a list of 320 worldwide locations as potential targets for commando-style terror strikes, the Guardian has learned. It suggests that Lashkar-e-Taiba, the outlawed terror group that pl...

The question - from Gaza to Pristina - is whether peace arrives top down or bottom up, whether it's ordinary folk or diplomatic men in suits who do the business. And from an island of strife 45 long years ago is the beginning of a surprising answer. Can we find friendship and understanding between w...

Binyam Mohamed, the UK resident detained in Guantánamo Bay, is to be visited by a British police doctor and could be returned to Britain shortly, the foreign secretary, David Miliband, said today. The US authorities had agreed to treat Mohamed's case as "a priority", Miliband said, enabling Britain...

John Hutton, the defence secretary, yesterday delivered an unprecedented attack on the failure of European allies to deploy more forces to Afghanistan and said British troops were fighting there in a mission "fundamental to national security". In an apparent attempt to prepare the country for furthe...

A senior Bush administration official has admitted that a Guantánamo Bay detainee was tortured by the US military, leaving him in a "life-threatening condition". Susan Crawford, the Pentagon official in charge of military tribunals at the camp, said Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi suspected of involve...

A former Guantánamo Bay guard has joined forces with released detainees in Britain to expose the torture inflicted by interrogators at the camp. The former soldier has kicked off a tour of Britain this week to talk about the techniques used by US interrogators and express his regret over the handli...

The US president-elect, Barack Obama, said yesterday that he would act swiftly once in power to confront Iran, vowing to take a new approach focused on dialogue but warning Tehran that there were limits beyond which it should not go. Speaking on network television nine days before taking office, Oba...

The new Congress in Washington will almost certainly hold investigations into the malfeasance and misfeasance, lies and (possible) crimes of the Bush administration in its "war on terror". But Barack Obama and his security team need to look ahead, into how to get out of the political and military mo...

The end of 2008 and the start of 2009 saw some startling displays of violence. The terrorist attacks in Mumbai shocked the world, and the situation in Gaza worsens each day. The merciless killing of innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of situations they have nothing to do with is unjust. As i...