Topic: Iran
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 ...
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 Qaeda.The bounty is ...
The US House of Representatives passed legislation to freeze some Pakistan aid, slap harsh new sanctions on Iran, and endorse indefinite imprisonment of suspected terrorists.Acting shortly after the White House dropped a threat to veto the bill, the Republican-led chamber voted 283-136 ...
Massoud Hossaini's picture of an Afghan girl standing among a pile of dead bodies captured the devastation in the immediate aftermath of an unprecedented suicide attack on a Shiite shrine in Kabul.The 30-year-old AFP photographer was just metres away when the bomb ...
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 Senate voted to tie strings to military aid to Pakistan and stem the spread of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles from Libya as they advanced a massive annual defense spending bill.The White House has threatened to veto the $662 billion measure over ...
The Bahraini judiciary on Sunday linked a busted "terrorist" cell to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a day after announcing the arrest of five Bahrainis planning attacks in the Arab kingdom.The five men are accused of belonging to a "terrorist group" with ties to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iranian and four people from Singapore have been charged by a U.S. grand jury with smuggling thousands of radio transmitters to Iran, some later found in bombs in Iraq, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.The five were ...
Customs officials in Nigeria, buckling under a spate of bomb attacks blamed on Islamists, have seized an illegal shipment of materials used in bomb-making on a Chinese vessel, an official said Saturday.They were found in a 40-foot (12-metre) container which was searched ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police have arrested five al Qaeda members in an eastern province of the country, the official news agency IRNA quoted a senior police official as saying Tuesday."Five members of the terrorist al Qaeda group were arrested in Kerman ...
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