Topic: Al Qaeda
WORCESTER, Mass (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Monday described a Massachusetts man accused of plotting to attack U.S. targets using model aircraft as a "ticking time bomb" who should not be released to home confinement before a trial.Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen, ...
WORCESTER, Mass (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Monday called a Massachusetts man accused of plotting to attack U.S. targets using model aircraft a "ticking time bomb" who should not be released to home confinement pending trial.Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, has pleaded not guilty to ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A violent Islamist sect responsible for scores of killings in northeast Nigeria is increasingly linking up with global jihadist movements like al Qaeda, a military commander in the area told Reuters Thursday.Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, a senior military ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday charged a Moroccan man with conspiring to provide weapons and other assistance to al Qaeda militants.Abdeladim El-Kebir, 30, also known as "Abi al-Barra," was arrested in April by German authorities and is now in custody ...
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - An alleged al Qaeda chieftain accused of launching a deadly bomb attack in 2000 on a U.S. Navy ship was arraigned on Wednesday at a U.S. military tribunal hearing marked by questions about how ...
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Nine years after his capture and a decade after the United States first authorized military tribunals for terrorist suspects, the alleged mastermind of the deadly bombing of the USS Cole will face a judge ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four bombs exploded near the home of a local leader of a government-supported Sunni militia north of Iraq's capital on Saturday, killing four people and wounding eight others, police and health sources said.The attack follows a major assault on ...
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni tribesmen have freed an Uzbek doctor they had abducted eight months ago in protest against an airstrike on their area, a local official said early Monday.The man was handed to mediators late Sunday and was on his way ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi court has sentenced a woman to 15 years in prison for sending 1 million riyals ($267,000) to al Qaeda's regional branch, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Sunday.A special security court said in its ruling that the unnamed ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man accused of supporting militants traveled to Yemen for terrorism training and translated Arabic messages to help further al Qaeda's cause, prosecutors said in Boston federal court on Thursday.During opening statements in the jury trial of Tarek ...
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Egypt Al Qaida
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