Terrorism News

Thirty killed, 55 wounded in Syrian blasts: report

2011-12-23T03:00:09Z

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two car bomb attacks on Syrian security sites in Damascus killed 30 people and wounded 55 others, most of them civilian, the Lebanese news channel Al Manar said Friday.

Al Manar cited information from its own correspondents on the ground. The television ...

Syria blasts kill civilians, soldiers: state TV

2011-12-23T02:00:14Z

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Several people were killed in the two blasts on Syrian security sites in Damascus, state television said on Friday.

"The terrorist attacks left a number of martyrs, both civilian and military. Most of the victims were civilian," it said in a news flash.<...

US posts $10 mn reward for Al-Qaeda financier

2011-12-22T17:30:38Z

The United States on Thursday offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a key Al-Qaeda fundraiser, who is said to be a Syrian operating from Iran.

The reward for Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil marks the first time that a "terrorist financier" has been targeted in such a way, said Robert Hartung, assistan...

U.S. sets bounty for Iran-based al Qaeda financier

2011-12-22T11:00:23Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday announced it was establishing a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to Yasin al-Suri, who is accused of operating from Iran as a facilitator and financier for al Q...

Baghdad blasts target Shi'ites, kill 63

2011-12-22T08:00:09Z

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines.

The bombings, just days after the last U.S. troops lef...

Baghdad blasts kill 63 as Iraq tensions rise

2011-12-22T05:30:15Z

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 63 people in the first big assault attack on Iraq's capital since a sectarian crisis erupted within its government just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated bombings were the first sign of a violen...

Baghdad blasts kill 57 as Iraq tensions rise

2011-12-22T01:00:27Z

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rash of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 57 people in the first big attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis between its Shi'ite Muslim-led government and Sunni rivals erupted days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated bombings were the first sign...

Baghdad blasts kill 40 as tensions rise

2011-12-22T01:00:15Z

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts and a suicide bomber hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40 people in the first major attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni rivals just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

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Baghdad blasts kill 17 as tensions rise

2011-12-21T23:30:12Z

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 17 people in the first wave of attacks on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni rivals after the U.S. troop withdrawal.

The apparently coordinated a...

US marks first post-Kadhafi Lockerbie anniversary

2011-12-21T19:31:12Z

A top aide to President Barack Obama on Wednesday marked the 23rd anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, vowing that Washington would pursue justice in a newly-free Libya for the 1988 attack.

Obama's top anti-terror advisor Yemen's sidelined President Ali Abdullah Saleh needs "serious" medical treatment which will force him to go abroad, the UN envoy to the country said Wednesday.

UN representative Jamal Benomar also highlighted international fears over the spread of Al-Qa...

Lockerbie bomber claims innocence in 'final' interview

2011-12-21T19:31:01Z

The only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people died used his "final interview" to vow he would clear his name, British newspapers reported Thursday.

A Scottish court in 2001 convicted Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi of the 1988 attack on Pan Am flight 103, but he was released on compassionate grounds in 20...

Five Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

2011-12-21T11:30:48Z

Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war.

"This is the most deadly attack in the history of Polish military missions abroad," Poland's <...

Confessed "underwear bomber" asks for new legal adviser

2011-12-20T16:30:10Z

(Reuters) - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who confessed to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, has asked the judge who will sentence him next month to give him a new legal adv...

Awlaki video urges U.S. Muslims to join al Qaeda

2011-12-20T15:00:17Z

DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S.-born al Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a CIA drone strike in September, posthumously called on U.S. Muslims to join the group in the Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of conspiring to support al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.

Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and supporting militants through traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.

Tarek...

Massachusetts man found guilty of aiding al Qaeda

2011-12-20T09:00:11Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and supporting militants through traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.

Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and supporting militants through traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.

Iraq issued an arrest warrant for its Sunni vice president on anti-terror charges Monday, deepening a crisis that one leader warned threatened the unity government, just a day after US troops left.

Less than a year before the cabinet was formed, Iraq's fragile political truce appeared to be unraveling, with the Sunni-backed Ir...

Suicide bombers hit Afghan market

2011-12-19T05:30:27Z

Twin suicide bombers on a motorcycle struck an Afghan market in the southern province of Nimroz on Monday, killing themselves but causing no other casualties, officials said.

The interior ministry said the attackers with "suicide-loaded vests" blew up their motorcycle at around 8:50 am (0420 GMT) in the Haji Zahid market of Dilaram district, but that "fortunately nobody was killed or injured".

Government and police officials said there was a nearby police post, b...

Deadly raid, 'Islamist' arrests in northern Nigeria

2011-12-18T15:30:15Z

A shootout between Nigerian police and suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram has left seven dead, while 14 people have been arrested and explosives seized, authorities said Sunday.

The shootout on Saturday in Kano came after a suspected Boko Haram leader discovered his house was under surveillance and called out other members of the group to attack police,

Explosion at 'bomb-making' house in Nigerian city

2011-12-17T15:30:12Z

An explosion on Saturday at a house allegedly used to make home-made bombs in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri killed three suspected Islamist sect members, the military said.

Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, spokesman of a special force deployed in the city, said "the house was used by suspected members of Bok...

Nigeria seizes bomb factory after Islamist attacks

2011-12-17T13:30:13Z

MAIDUGURI/KANO (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities raided a bomb making factory Saturday belonging to suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northeast, the military said, after gun and bomb attacks across northern Nigeria over four days killed at least seven people.

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Iraqi pleads guilty to trying to kill U.S. troops

2011-12-16T20:00:07Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iraqi living in Kentucky pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he tried to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq, aided al Qaeda operatives there and taught how to make roadside bombs, the Justice Department said.

Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30...

Iraqi pleads guilty to trying to kill US troops

2011-12-16T15:30:34Z

Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30...

Jury deliberates fate of man accused of aiding al Qaeda

2011-12-16T15:00:18Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Friday began deliberating the fate of a Massachusetts man accused of supporting al Qaeda by translating texts and videos from Arabic to English and distributing them online.

Tarek Mehanna, 29, of Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.

The Taliban have c...

Kabul police station attack ends, no casualties

2011-12-16T10:30:22Z

KABUL (Reuters) - An attack on a police station in the west of Kabul on Friday ended without casualties, police and the Interior Ministry said.

An attacker threw a hand grenade at the station, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on his official Twitter account, and soon afterwards police said ...

Suicide bombers attack west Kabul police station

2011-12-16T09:00:07Z

KABUL (Reuters) - Several suicide bombers attacked a police station in the west of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, a police source said.

"At least four suicide bombers carried out an attack on a police station," the source said, adding that one bomber detonated his explosives. Police fought the others, who were armed with machine guns and rocket-...

Pakistan battle kills '1 soldier, 25 insurgents'

2011-12-16T06:30:36Z

Dozens of militants ambushed Pakistani troops on Friday, killing a soldier and sparking clashes that left up to 25 insurgents dead in the Taliban-infested tribal badlands, officials said.

Members of the Frontier Corps paramilitary were attacked while driving through the Mamuzai area of Orakzai, the stronghold of Hakimullah Meshud, the leader of the nebulous...

APTOPIX Mideast Egypt Church Attack

2011-01-04T14:32:25Z

Two Coptic men, center and unseen, warn off two others wielding kitchen knives, left and right, who were trying to kick down the doors of a mosque, seen behind, during heavy clashes between Coptic youths and riot police, in the streets outside the Saints Church and a neighboring hospital, in Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exp...

Egypt Al Qaida

2011-01-04T14:32:23Z

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, Egyptian Coptic activists light candles and hold flowers during a protest against the October al-Qaida militant attack on a Baghdad church, in front of the Iraqi embassy in Cairo, Egypt. In the weeks before the New Year's Day suicide bombing of an Egyptian...

Mideast Egypt Elections

2011-01-02T07:00:22Z

Egyptian Muslims and Christians raise a copy of the Quran and a Cross in Shubra district, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan.1, 2011 to protest against the terrorist attack on a Coptic Christian church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged ...

Mideast Egypt Church Attack

2011-01-02T06:01:11Z

Egyptian Christians grieve in front of coffins containing the victims of a car bomb explosion which took place in front of a church in the port city of Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday Jan.1, 2011. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged from a New Years Mass early Saturday, killing at least 21 people ...

Indonesia Terror Trial

2010-12-29T03:00:25Z

Suspected militant Abdullah Sunata stands behind bars inside a holding cell at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. The trial of one of Indonesia's top terrorism suspects has opened in the capital. Sunata is accused of setting up a terrorist cell of Muslim militants with ties to the