Airport Checkpoints

By 2025, the airport will be equipped with cutting-edge biometric sensors at every identification checkpoint, from arrival to departure.

After long queues were seen at the immigration and security checkpoints troubling the passengers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.

The new service will ensure "contactless and seamless" processing of passengers through various checkpoints at the airports using facial features to establish their identity which could be linked to the boarding pass.

Afghan police at Kabul airport have returned to work manning checkpoints alongside Taliban security for the first time since the Islamists seized power, officers said Sunday.

Kabul's former diplomatic quarter fell silent on Monday as foreign missions were moved to the airport, leaving Taliban patrols in control of the fortified zone of concrete blast walls and checkpoints known as the Green Zone.

A passenger made it through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint with a gun on Jan. 2, boarding a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flying to Tokyo, authorities said Sunday.

Miami International Airport's departing passengers meet unusual long waits at security checkpoints on Sunday which was an indirect consequence of the partial US federal government shutdown.

Passengers might be allowed to keep liquids and laptops in their carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints in the US if screening technology being tested at select airports is widely adopted.

A security checkpoint inside a Houston airport was briefly evacuated early Thursday after security screening found what appeared to be a hand grenade in a passenger's bag, airport officials said, then later determined it was a toy.

A man carrying a bomb blew himself up in front of a police checkpoint near Bangladesh's international airport on Friday, in a blast claimed by ISIS.

Police at Turkey's largest airport in Istanbul on Sunday fired warning shots at a motorbike that failed to stop at a security checkpoint, with the facility on high alert after the deadly June attack blamed on terrorists, local officials said.

A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up close to a police checkpoint near Kabul airport today but caused no other casualties, a police spokesman said.

Islamic State militants claimed a suicide bombing that killed seven people at an army checkpoint in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday and triggered retaliatory air strikes by army forces.

A bomb blast targeting a police checkpoint today killed one civilian and wounded two others, including a 12-year-old boy, near Egypt's second city of Alexandria, police said.

Researchers believe such technology could be used in airports, border checkpoints or anyplace where photo identification is required.

By 2025, the airport will be equipped with cutting-edge biometric sensors at every identification checkpoint, from arrival to departure.

After long queues were seen at the immigration and security checkpoints troubling the passengers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.

The new service will ensure "contactless and seamless" processing of passengers through various checkpoints at the airports using facial features to establish their identity which could be linked to the boarding pass.

Afghan police at Kabul airport have returned to work manning checkpoints alongside Taliban security for the first time since the Islamists seized power, officers said Sunday.

Kabul's former diplomatic quarter fell silent on Monday as foreign missions were moved to the airport, leaving Taliban patrols in control of the fortified zone of concrete blast walls and checkpoints known as the Green Zone.

A passenger made it through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint with a gun on Jan. 2, boarding a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flying to Tokyo, authorities said Sunday.

Miami International Airport's departing passengers meet unusual long waits at security checkpoints on Sunday which was an indirect consequence of the partial US federal government shutdown.

Passengers might be allowed to keep liquids and laptops in their carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints in the US if screening technology being tested at select airports is widely adopted.

A security checkpoint inside a Houston airport was briefly evacuated early Thursday after security screening found what appeared to be a hand grenade in a passenger's bag, airport officials said, then later determined it was a toy.

A man carrying a bomb blew himself up in front of a police checkpoint near Bangladesh's international airport on Friday, in a blast claimed by ISIS.

Police at Turkey's largest airport in Istanbul on Sunday fired warning shots at a motorbike that failed to stop at a security checkpoint, with the facility on high alert after the deadly June attack blamed on terrorists, local officials said.

A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up close to a police checkpoint near Kabul airport today but caused no other casualties, a police spokesman said.

Islamic State militants claimed a suicide bombing that killed seven people at an army checkpoint in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday and triggered retaliatory air strikes by army forces.

A bomb blast targeting a police checkpoint today killed one civilian and wounded two others, including a 12-year-old boy, near Egypt's second city of Alexandria, police said.

Researchers believe such technology could be used in airports, border checkpoints or anyplace where photo identification is required.