The officers would likely have been seriously injured or killed if they had not been travelling in an armoured vehicle

At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha.

The attack took place in the Ardoyne Road area last night

The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries, which will require surgery

The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali man, was shot in the leg by police and arrested after people surrounded him and tried to hold him at bay with chairs and sticks.

A memorial service has been held in the German city of Wuerzburg for the victims of a knife attack that left three women dead.

Investigators are looking for a motive behind an attack in the German city of Wuerzburg in which a man armed with a knife killed three people and wounded at least five others.

A man armed with a large knife has killed three people and injured several others in the city of Wurzburg before being shot by police and arrested, German authorities said. Police identified the suspect as a 24-year-old Somali man living in Wurzburg.

It was unclear how many people were killed or injured.

A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism has stabbed a police officer at her station in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.

The PSNI said three of the boys were punched in the face with one sustaining a cut above his eye, while the fourth boy was hit by a bottle on the shoulder.

A 57-year old man has been arrested.

Police said they found about 150 people present and saw breaches of Covid-19 regulations

Police were still investigating the exact circumstances but said the detained woman was “urgently suspected” of the killings.

A man armed with an axe has injured eight people in a town in southern Sweden before being shot and arrested. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said a possible terrorist motive was being investigated.

Reports of bomb attacks on two political offices in Belfast are being investigated. The offices targeted are those of SDLP MLA Nichola Mallon in North Belfast and Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey in West Belfast.

The motorcade of the interior minister of Libya’s UN-backed government has come under attack in the capital, Tripoli, a government spokesman said.

The four occupants were not injured in the incident in the Leyland Court area of Ballycastle in the early hours of Monday

Seamus Troy was attacked with his own crutches just after being released from hospital. 'My whole life flashed before my eyes,' he says

33-year-old man has been remanded in custody with an order for psychiatric treatment after Sutton pub attack

Will voters see compromise as a step towards consensus, as a foil to unsustainable extremism and division? Or might they cling ever more fervently to partisan positions? 

Nigeria’s freed schoolboys have been reunited with their parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country’s northwest.

More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrations of their release from captivity.

More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in north-west Nigeria have been released, the Katsina State governor said. Governor Aminu Bello Masari made the announcement on Nigerian state TV, NTA, from his office in Katsina State.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of pupils in an attack on a boys’ school in northern Katsina state, according to a Nigerian online newspaper.

Anxiety is growing among the parents of hundreds of students who remain missing three days after gunmen attacked their school in Katsina State in northern Nigeria.

Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s north-western Katsina state, police have confirmed.

Police in Switzerland say a woman suspected of carrying out a knife attack that is being investigated as possible terrorism formed an online relationship with a jihadi in Syria and had attempted to travel there.

Two women have been injured after allegedly being stabbed in a department store in southern Switzerland in what authorities have called an “alleged terrorist attack”.

Cork man jailed after pleading guilty to violent disorder in Mahon, among other crimes

A teenager has been arrested after police and fire crews were attacked with missiles in Belfast.

The 18-year-old suspected killer of a French teacher who showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class paid students to help him identify the victim, France’s terrorism prosecutor has said.

The French government has issued an order to dissolve a domestic militant Islamic group after the beheading of a teacher who showed students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

France’s president has named a domestic militant Islamist group as “directly implicated” in last week’s beheading of a history teacher who had discussed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed with his class.

Police operations are under way into dozens of people who allegedly issued messages of support for the attacker after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris, the French interior minister has said.

The French prime minister joined demonstrators across the country on Sunday who had rallied in tribute to a history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed with his class.

Political leaders, associations and unions will rally on Sunday afternoon in Paris and other major cities including Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nantes, Marseille, Lille and Bordeaux

A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack, officials ...

Authorities investigating the horrific killing of the man in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine have also arrested nine suspects

French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced what he called an “Islamist terrorist attack” against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb. The teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed with his class, authorities said.

A history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed has been decapitated in a street near Paris, a police official said. Officers shot the suspected killer dead, the official continued.

France’s interior minister has promised to protect the country’s Jewish community from extremists after a double stabbing in Paris blamed on Islamic terrorism.

The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he carried out the attack in anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a judicial official has said.

Seven people including a suspected assailant are in custody after a stabbing outside the former Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, French authorities said.