Peter Moore freed after US deal to hand over Iraqi insurgent

The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen.

Obama considering military strikes after Christmas Day aircraft plot

The Pentagon is drawing up urgent plans for increased military co-operation with Yemen, including possible retaliatory strikes against al-Qaeda targets, according to US officials engaged in a high-stakes bid to neutralise Islamist militants without enraging the Arab world.

Iran Government stages rallies as Mousavi?s nephew is quietly buried

Iran?s beleaguered regime sought to bolster its support with stage-managed rallies in several cities yesterday and said last night that the leaders of the opposition had fled Tehran because they were scared of the people?s anger. The claim was swiftly denied.

Hostage Peter Moore?s fate tied to that of Laith and Qais al-Khazali

The fortunes of Peter Moore and his four fellow hostages have fluctuated with the fate of two brothers, the militia commanders Laith and Qais al-Khazali.

Passengers to be scanned after details emerge about Somali bomb plot

A man was arrested last month when he attempted to board an aircraft in Somalia carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe, in a potential forerunner of the Christmas Day bomb plot.

Half of UK?s new armoured vehicles in Afghanistan out of service

More than half of the new armoured vehicles sent to Afghanistan are out of service, the Ministry of Defence has admitted.

The people dealing with Peter Moore should keep him from the public gaze

Many survivors have a feeling of guilt. Why me? Why have I survived and not my associates? Did I do something that gave rise to their deaths? Or do I have some responsibility, now that I have survived, in some way to honour them?

Peter Moore went for a job ? and ended up as a hostage for 946 days

The lead kidnapper, dressed as an Iraqi police major, shouted ?Where are the foreigners?? as he led a team of gunmen, also in uniform, into the Finance Ministry building in Baghdad.

Peter Moore: Britain stuck to ?no negotiation? policy as hostages died

The Government?s policy over the five hostages seized in Baghdad two years ago has relied on maximum caution, restrained publicity and discreet behind-the-scenes contacts.

We can smile again, say family of freed hostage Peter Moore

Peter Moore?s family reacted with jubilation last night at his release, saying that a great burden had been lifted and they could finally ?smile again?.

Yemen becomes the focus of conflict for President Obama

The global war on terror began a year before September 2001, when a speedboat with militants and half a tonne of explosives rammed an American destroyer anchored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen US Navy sailors died.

?Hand of God? brings Colorado mother and child back to life at birth

They are calling it a Christmas miracle. Tracy Hermanstorfer died during childbirth and her baby boy was born lifeless ? yet they both came back to life.