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Lawyer Thomas A. Durkin has spent much of his career working in national security law, representing clients in a variety of national security and domestic terrorism matters. Joseph Ferguson was a national security prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where Durkin was also a…

The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, has been depicted in various artistic works, and inspired popular culture, with movies and TV series centred around his criminal mastermind

The Harvard-trained mathematician waged a war of terror on the USA with a lone wolf bombing campaign

It's little mystery who blew up the Kakhovka dam

Washington Post reports that European intelligence service told CIA Ukrainian military was planning attack

The United States learned of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines three months before they were damaged last September by underwater explosions, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing leaked information posted online.

China’s new defence minister has used his first major speech to take aim at the US for intensifying an arms race in Asia, but warned that a war between the world’s two superpowers would be an “unbearable disaster”.

As Ukrainian forces gear up for a long-planned counter-offensive to retake territory captured during last year’s invasion, two “volunteer” groups have been accused of conducting short cross-border raids into Russia under the direction of Kyiv.

Belgium is investigating whether weapons it sent to help Ukraine defend its territory were used just over the border in Russia

One of the troubling things about modern life is the fact that so many of our ordinary decisions are manipulated by vested interests and opaque forces. This isn’t entirely a new phenomenon, we have always been easily swayed – by the slick advertisers of Madison Avenue, the chocolate bars placed…

Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost a defamation case against newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan in a landmark ruling with widespread implications for future criminal trials.