British terror furor heats up
British authorities have arrested two men in west Glasgow in connection with the planned terrorist "attacks" on Glasgow's airport and a series of car-bombs in London. The arrests take the total of official suspects to seven. Officials have linked the two attacks to al-Qaida.
New British prime minister Gordon Brown described the fight against terrorism as "our Cold War", suggesting that the struggle will take decades and involves an ideological war for the "hearts and minds" of young Muslims.
The conservative WND blog quotes UK Islamist extremist Anjem Choudary's warning that alienated Muslim Britons will stage further attacks in Britain.
Read profiles of the seven suspects here.
The Spectator's Coffee House blog goes toe-to-toe with oD's OurKingdom. Join the lively debate on how the UK should counter the threat posed by Islamist terrorism.
An unpalatable fellowship
Jeffrey Breinholt on the centre-right Counterterrorism blog explores the growing acceptance in the US foreign policy establishment of the Egyptian Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood. Many of the assumptions about the group, he suggests, are based on flawed or simplistic understandings about the group.
The case for Hamas
In the London Review of Books, Alistair Crooke of Conflicts Forum makes the case for Hamas, arguing that the group's isolation after its election to power in the Palestinian territories has delivered a huge blow to prospects for peace in west Asia.
Now that President Mahmoud Abbas has disbanded the unity government with Hamas, Israel resumed the transfer of revenues and taxes to the Palestinian Authority over the weekend. Financial ties between Israel and the Palestinians were cut in the wake of Hamas' election.
Israeli forces have shot dead a commander of the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade in Jenin.
Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's nuclear whistle-blower, has been sentenced to a further six-month term in prison for violating a ban on speaking with foreigners.
Patients trapped
After the closing of the Rafah border-crossing in early June, patients in Gaza have been cut off from more advanced medical services. The Strip's weak medical infrastructure cannot offer patients access to numerous types of surgery and other sophisticated treatments.
UNHCR has called for the evacuation of dozens of Palestinian refugee children in Iraq who require immediate medical attention.
Journalists most at peril in Central Asia
According to a Freedom House report, "reconsolidated" authoritarianism in many of the states of the former Soviet Union has made the CIS nation-states the most dangerous places in the world for journalists.
Bombs and censure in Yemen
An al-Qaida-linked bomb-attack on a tourist site in eastern Yemen has left several Spanish tourists and one Yemeni man dead.
State authorities have imprisoned the editor of an opposition party-affiliated newspaper in Yemen.
Afghan attacks leave scores dead
Bombing raids in the Grishk district of Afghanistan's Helmand province on Friday are thought to have left 62 militants and at least 45 civilians dead.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission claims that NATO and US air attacks have "killed more civilians than militants".
Indo-Pak prisoner exchange
After India released 43 Pakistani prisoners yesterday, Pakistan has released 50 Indian fishermen detained in the Arabian Sea.
Chad rebels threaten return to war
A spokesperson for the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development, Chad's main rebel group, has warned that fighting will persist in the strife-torn country if talks brokered by Libya fail.
Brahim Deby, the son of Chad's Prime Minister Idriss Deby was found dead in Paris with a wound to his head. He was widely considered to be his father's likely choice of successor.
