The US government is issuing a worldwide caution amid fears a terrorist strike is imminent.

FBI Agents will give evidence today at the Daniel Pearl murder trial in Pakistan.

The father of a man arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of links to Al Qaida terrorists today threatened to go on hunger strike unless his son was released.

The White House has confirmed that troops have captured one of the key members of al-Qaida.

The US government has set the rules for conducting military tribunals for prisoners from the Afghan war, including five Britons being held at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay.

British Taliban suspect Feroz Abbasi has lost a High Court battle over the conditions of his detention by the US at Camp X-Ray.

American authorities are planning to take DNA from al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in a bid to create a databank of their genetic fingerprints, it was revealed today.

Thirteen al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay naval base have been without food for five days in a hunger strike that has encouraged scores of others to skip meals, US military officials said today.

United States authorities today dropped a ban on al-Qaida suspects held at Camp X-Ray wearing turbans after prisoners went on hunger strike in protest.

Nearly 90 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray were still believed to be on hunger strike today, despite a concession by their American guards over the wearing of turbans.

The British government was today facing legal action for allegedly failing to press the US to respect the human rights of the Camp X-Ray prisoners.

Two more British prisoners have been moved to the US Camp X-ray detention centre in Cuba.

The White House has confirmed the Geneva Convention does apply to Taliban prisoners, but not to those who were members of Osama bin Laden's terror network.

The families and friends of three British citizens detained in Afghanistan by US authorities tonight spoke of their shock amid fears that the men were recruited to fight a holy war by an extremist Muslim group.

An American reporter has apparently been taken hostage in Pakistan by a group seeking freedom for Pakistani fighters imprisoned at Cuba’s Camp X-Ray and for the release of a Taliban leader.

US sailors have started constructing more cells at Camp X-Ray in Cuba to allow flights carrying more detainees to resume.

An officer in the US army has defended the treatment of suspected al-Qaida members being held at Camp X-Ray.

The British government tonight attempted to defuse the row over the al-Qaida suspects held by the US at Camp X-Ray, insisting their conditions were in line with ‘‘international humanitarian norms’’.

A US Air Force plane carrying 20 prisoners from Afghanistan has touched down in Cuba.