Britain’s national security chiefs were meeting on Thursday as counter-terrorism police investigated the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street by two suspected Islamic extremists.
The suspects were shot by police after the gruesome attack and spent the night in hospital under armed guard.
Wielding knives including a meat cleaver, two men carried out the attack in broad d

France is to call for the military arm of Hezbollah to be added to an EU terror blacklist due to its backing of the Syrian regime, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday.
“Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be conside

Britain and Qatar urged President Bashar Al-Assad to step down, as major world powers gathered on Wednesday to seek ways toward a peaceful end to Syria’s conflict. And the United States urged Assad to make a “commitment to find peace” in a country whose conflict has killed more than 94,000 people and threatens to spill beyond its borders. “It is the longstanding view o