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1 Oct 2013

The impact of a leaked al-Qaeda terrorist plot has caused more immediate damage to US counterterrorism efforts than the thousands of classified documents disclosed by former National Security...

2:41AM
13 Sep 2013

A "rapping jihadi" from Alabama who ascended the ranks of Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked militant group and was on the FBI's Most Wanted list with a US$5 million reward for his capture was killed...

3:13AM
6 Sep 2013

US missiles on Friday killed a senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, wanted for kidnappings and sending hundreds of foreign fighters into Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said...

9:26PM
24 Aug 2013

Egypt's bloody crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood has been a gift to al-Qaeda that will help it attract fresh followers and open a new front in the Middle East, experts say.

4:36AM
7 Aug 2013

The United States told its citizens in Yemen on Tuesday to leave immediately and airlifted out some US government personnel, following warnings of potential attacks that have pushed Washington to...

12:42AM
2 Aug 2013

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has vowed to break out Muslim prisoners from US prisons and the heavily fortified compound for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

5:08AM

Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq. The...

2:16AM

The leader of al-Qaeda's Iraq arm defiantly has rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organisation's Syria affiliate, according to a message...

5:32AM

The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like handouts for a class.

4:33AM

Iraq's defence ministry said it had broken up an al-Qaeda cell that was working to produce poison gas at two locations in the capital for future attacks at home and abroad.

7:58AM

Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in part of Pakistan’s restive tribal regions on Monday, killing a policeman who was providing security, officials said.

5:54PM

A bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said.

7:58PM

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