The UK is to close its embassy in Yemen on Sunday, with a number of other embassies across the Middle East told to be “vigilant” after the US issued a worldwide travel alert
The US state department has issued a worldwide travel alert because of an al-Qaeda threat, with people warned to take particular precaution in the Middle East and North Africa.
Foreign ministers from the European Union have agreed to put the military wing of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the EU’s terror list.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has confirmed that its deputy leader Sheikh Saeed al-Shehri was killed by a US drone-strike in Yemen.
The suspects in the Woolwich murder made no secret of their political motivations for the attack, encouraging photos and smartphone recordings to get their message across, so why aren’t we talking about the UK’s military intervention in the Muslim world?