Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda's Inspire targets motorists, calls for France to pull back from Mali

4 Mar 2013

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Islamist movement's most active branch, has released the tenth edition of it English-language propaganda magazine Inspire, which advises would-be militants...

Algeria hostage mastermind Mokhtar Belmokhtar 'killed in Mali'

3 Mar 2013

The death of one of the world’s most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al-Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an...

Briefs, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is recovering after coming down with a stomach bug that forced the cancellation of a royal engagement. The 86-year-old monarch yesterday cancelled a visit to Swansea,...

Top al-Qaeda commander killed in Mali, say reports

2 Mar 2013

One of al Qaeda’s most feared commanders in Africa has been killed by French air strikes in north Mali, sources close to Islamist militants and tribal elders said on Friday, but France said it...

Pakistan policeman killed in new anti-polio attack

26 Feb 2013

A Pakistani policeman was shot dead on Tuesday while protecting a polio vaccination team, police said, bringing the death toll in such attacks to 20 since December.

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New violence breaks out in Mali

Fresh fighting erupted yesterday in northern Mali between ethnic Tuareg and an unidentified armed group, security sources said, the latest violence in the wake of a French-led campaign that drove...

Gunmen kidnap French tourists in Cameroon

Gunmen kidnapped seven French nationals, including three children, on Tuesday in northern Cameroon near the border with Nigeria and the perpetrators came from neighbouring Nigeria, French...

Pakistan Shiites demand protection from militants

Thousands of Pakistani Shiites furious over a sectarian bombing that killed 89 people protested on Monday, demanding that security forces protect them from hardline Sunni groups.

IRAQ

Blasts kill 15 in Shiite areas of Baghdad

A series of bombings killed at least 15 people in Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad on Sunday, officials said, the latest attacks to hit Iraq as the country struggles with protests and a political...

PAKISTAN

Bomb kills 7 Pakistan pro-government militia

A bomb attack killed at least seven members of a Pakistani pro-government militia and wounded 13 others on Thursday as they were travelling to a garrison town in the northwest, officials said.

OSAMA BIN LADEN

Navy Seal breaks silence on night he shot Osama bin Laden

The US Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden has broken his silence, recounting the night he shot the al-Qaeda leader three times in the head and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed...