Topic: Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda has said it carried out a series of attacks on security forces in Yemen, including deadly clashes in the restive south, a US-based group that monitors Islamist websites reported. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the jihadist network's local affiliate, put out ...
US expands military training in Yemen, reflecting a broader counterterror programU.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbor a visible American military presence. ...
At least 20 people including women and children were killed and more than 50 wounded Tuesday in a car bomb attack targeting a police headquarters in Pakistan's northwestern city of Kohat. Militants have launched a series of brazen assaults in the past ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a daylight raid by suicide bombers on an army base in central Baghdad in which 12 people died. U.S. forces became involved in Sunday's fighting less than a week after ...
An explosion ripped through a discotheque in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe on Monday injuring seven people in the latest blast to hit the troubled ex-Soviet state, police said. The explosion, which investigators said occurred Monday morning when an improvised explosive device detonated in ...
A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people in an attack Monday on a police post in northwest Pakistan, a hotbed of Al-Qaeda-linked violence, a police official said. "A suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden vehicle into the back of the police ...
Two powerful bombs rocked the southern Philippines hours after police killed three members of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militant group, authorities said Monday. No one was hurt in the explosions, which came as security was heightened in the troubled south following ...
US commanders have proposed spending up to 1.2 billion dollars over five years on Yemen's security forces, reflecting US worries about Al-Qaeda's presence in the region, officials said Thursday. US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, has called ...
The United States slapped Pakistani Taliban chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, with terrorism charges for his alleged role in the murder of seven Americans at a CIA base in Afghanistan. The Justice Department move came as the State Department added the Tehreek-e-Taliban to a ...
The United States slapped Pakistani Taliban chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, with terrorism charges on Wednesday for his alleged role in the murder of seven Americans at a CIA base in Afghanistan. The Justice Department move came as the State Department added the Tehreek-e-Taliban ...
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