Michael Petrou

BY MICHAEL PETROU

Earlier this year a good old-fashioned intellectual brawl erupted in the world of terrorism studies over whether al Qaeda is still...

’We can and must hope for a more peaceful world. We should also understand that there are times when peace, and freedom, must be fought for’

The Pakistan Observer is reporting that two Taliban leaders held on charges of terrorism and murder of foreign troops were...

I first met Akbar Ganji, one of Iran’s most famous dissidents, two years ago at a vigil outside BBC World Service’s Bush House...

All things considered, Helmut Oberlander, the 84-year-old veteran of a Second World War Nazi killing squad who has just been...

Harper didn’t warn the Afghan ambassador of his announcement

Iranian dissidents continue to endure prison and torture

British Muslims are in a race to defeat Islamist extremists in their midst, before terror can strike again

Normally I don’t get that sentimental about anniversaries, so I hope readers will forgive me for missing an important one...