Topic: Al Qaeda
Canada announced Wednesday it would move quickly to prosecute a Toronto man accused of planning to fly to Africa to join an Al-Qaeda affiliate battling for control of Somalia.The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said it had filed a direct indictment against ...
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta held talks Tuesday with Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelleh on tackling terrorism during a visit to the Red Sea state, home to the only US army base in Africa."Djibouti is a central location for continuing the efforts ...
ADEN (Reuters) - At least 14 prisoners, including members of al Qaeda, escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, a Yemeni security official said.The official in the south of the country, where Islamist fighters have seized ...
Yemeni tribesmen have killed two suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the restive southern province of Abyan, a tribal source said on Friday."Our armed men killed Al-Qaeda fighters Abdullah Umeir and Shokri Shaher as they tried to infiltrate Mudia," a town in the province ...
The White House on Thursday laid out a plan to implement a government strategy to combat homegrown domestic terrorism and any attempts by Al-Qaeda to seek to radicalize American Muslims.The initiative commits the federal government to work closely with local authorities and ...
With the icy riposte "ask Osama bin Laden," President Barack Obama on Thursday rebutted Republican claims he is blind to the threat from radical "thugs" and guilty of appeasing US enemies. Obama's use of lethal force as US commander-in-chief against Al-Qaeda and ...
The US military is under threat in its own country as homegrown Islamic extremists, including "radicalized troops," are treating military installations here as prime targets, US officials warned Congress Wednesday.The only deadly terror strikes on US soil since those of September 11, ...
The threat of home-grown terror attacks remains a top US concern a decade after 9/11 amid a series of recent arrests, but some experts believe the problem is being over-blown.Washington has made it a priority to track down "lone wolf" terror suspects ...
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri claims that the terror group is holding hostage a US development worker kidnapped in Pakistan four months ago, according to an online statement seen by monitors.Warren Weinstein, 70, country director for US-based consultancy J.E. Austin Associates, was snatched ...
Al-Qaeda is holding hostage a US aid worker kidnapped in August in Pakistan, the extremist group's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said in a Thursday statement seen by US website monitors.Zawahiri said that on August 13 Al-Qaeda abducted elderly USAID contractor Warren Weinstein, who ...