Topic: West Africa
LAGOS (Reuters) - A former leader of a Nigerian Islamic sect behind an uprising last year which killed hundreds of people has issued a statement expressing solidarity with al Qaeda and threatening the United States. Abubakar Shekau, a former deputy leader of ...
An English-language Al-Qaeda magazine in its first issue ran an article it said was penned by US-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki calling for the execution of anyone who defames the Prophet Mohammed. "The proper solution to this growing campaign of defamation" of ...
Two men appeared in court in chains Monday to be charged with conspiracy to kill American troops abroad in what has been described by officials as the nation's latest terror probe. Mohamed Alessa, 20, and Carlos Almonte, 24, were arrested late Saturday ...
Yemeni security forces have arrested more than 30 foreign nationals on suspicion of having links with Al-Qaeda, among them three Frenchmen, an American and a Briton, a security official said on Sunday. "Some of them were arrested on suspicion of belonging to ...
US Special Forces, Marines train African armies to face terrorists and traffickers in SaharaA U.S. Special Forces instructor leans toward a steering wheel, showing some 50 Malian soldiers gathered around an army pickup how a passenger should take control of a car ...
New York police on Monday hunted for a middle-aged white man caught on tape near a car bomb in Times Square that sparked a new terrorist alert as authorities discounted an Al-Qaeda link. The man in his 40s was caught on a ...
A retired colonel and a police officer were killed in separate explosions on Thursday in east Yemen's Shabwa province, considered to be an Al-Qaeda stronghold, officials said. The blasts in the mountainous As-Said region, 650 kilometres (400 miles) east of the capital, ...
AP sources: Diplomat in bomb scare was en route to meet jailed terrorist in ColoradoA Qatari diplomat was on his way to meet an imprisoned al-Qaida agent when he touched off a bomb scare by slipping into an airline bathroom for a ...
Security screening for US-bound travelers will no longer target specific countriesThe U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers' nationalities. The new policy replaces a security requirement put in place after the attempted bombing ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Nigeria said Wednesday it had raised its security alert status because of "continuing worldwide terrorist threats against U.S. citizens." An email sent to Americans living in Nigeria did not give details of the threats. ...
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