Topic: Terrorism

Thirty killed, 55 wounded in Syrian blasts: report

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. ...

Syria blasts kill civilians, soldiers: state TV

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 ...

US posts $10 mn reward for Al-Qaeda financier

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 ...

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

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 ...

US marks first post-Kadhafi Lockerbie anniversary

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 John Brennan joined relatives of the victims of ...

Yemen's Saleh needs treatment abroad: UN envoy

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-Qaeda's influence in Yemen where the ...
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 ...

Confessed "underwear bomber" asks for new legal adviser

(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 adviser.In a three-page, hand-written note ...

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

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 Middle East in a video released on Tuesday.Awlaki, identified by U.S. intelligence as "chief ...

Jury finds Massachusetts man guilty of aiding al Qaeda

BOSTON (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.Tarek Mehanna, 29, was found guilty on all seven counts against him and faces ...
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