Islamabad: A spokesman for al-Qaida's new Indian branch says US drone strikes in Pakistan have killed two of its leaders.In an audio message released Sunday, Usama Mahmood identified the dead as deputy chief Ahmed Farooq
UNITED NATIONS:The number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from over 100 nations, according to a new
New York: Prosecutors on Wednesday presented declassified al-Qaida documents obtained after the 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound at the trial of a man charged in a British terrorism plot.The al-Qaida documents, read
Johannesburg: A video purported to be by Somalia's al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries.US authorities said there was “no credible” evidence suggesting
Washington: Describing conflict as “magnets” for violent extremism, US President Barack Obama today asked the international community and religious leaders to “break the cycles” of sectarian conflict to counter terrorism.“Nations need to break the cycles
Sanaa, Yemen: Al-Qaida militants seized control of an important army base Thursday following clashes with soldiers that left at least eight people dead, military officials said.The officials say at least four soldiers and four militants
Baghdad: A series of bombings in the Iraqi capital today killed more than three dozen people hours before the city's longtime curfew was set to come to an end. The deadliest attack happened in the
Sanaa, Yemen: Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen announced on Thursday that one of its top clerics was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month in the country's south.The announcement came amid lingering uncertainty about the
Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan: Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to al-Qaida and Taliban militants and the focus of the longest war in U.S. history, face a new, emerging threat from the Islamic State group, officials have told
Paris: Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida—a fiercely
Paris: More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks.The leaders were heading
Cairo: Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honour" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a member of the group said on Friday.At least
London: Head of Britain's MI5 security services, Andrew Parker, has warned on Thursday that Al-Qaida militants in Syria are plotting mass attacks in the West. He said it could possibly be towards transport systems or
Paris: Police hunted for three heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the military-style, methodical killing of 12 people Wednesday at the office of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.President Francois
Paris: A gun assault on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday was the deadliest terrorist attack in postwar France. Some other terror attacks in Western Europe:March 11, 2004: Bombs on rush-hour trains
Sanaa, Yemen: A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed at least 15 people Wednesday morning near a police academy in the heart of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, security officials said.The blast wounded at
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii: President Barack Obama marked the end of more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan by paying tribute to America's military, telling troops on Christmas Day that their sacrifices have allowed for
New Delhi: Perturbed over calling 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed as as 'sahib' by a US Security Council panel, India will seek a clarification on it from the world body.It
United Nations: The killing fields of Peshawar inspired anew an international resolve at the Security Council to combat terrorism by adopting on Friday a resolution urging nations to choke the flow of resources to the
Sanaa, Yemen: An American photojournalist held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, his sister said on Saturday.Lucy Somers told The Associated Press that she learned of her 33-year-old
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