Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda's Iraq head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, defiant over Syria bid

17 Jun 2013

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

Papers found in Timbuktu suggest al-Qaeda has ground-to-air missiles

13 Jun 2013

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

4:33AM

Bombs and battles hit northern Iraq, more than 70 dead

11 Jun 2013

Insurgents attacked cities across Iraq on Monday with car bombs, suicide blasts and gun battles that killed more than 70 people in unrest that has deepened fears of a return to civil war.

9:09AM

Al-Qaeda poison gas workshops busted, Iraq officials say

2 Jun 2013

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 kill policeman in Pakistan polio team attack

20 May 2013

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

Car bombs in Baghdad, southern Iraq kill dozens

20 May 2013

A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens on Monday, Iraqi officials said.

11:13PM

Opinion

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1:26AM

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4:40AM

Afghan roadside bomb kills 13 civilians

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

2 Finns, Austrian abducted in Yemen by al-Qaeda free after four months

A Finnish couple and an Austrian student abducted in Yemen by al-Qaeda militants more than four months ago have been freed and have arrived safety in Vienna, authorities said.

4:12AM

Eleven British Islamists jailed for al-Qaeda bomb plot

Eleven British Muslims were jailed on Friday for planning what a judge said was a plot with the blessing of al-Qaeda to carry out a string of suicide bombings to rival 9/11 and the 2005 London...

12:21AM

SYRIA

Hundreds of fighters going to Syria ‘a serious threat’ to EU

The departure of hundreds of young Europeans to fight in Syria poses “a serious threat” to Europe’s security, the EU’s anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove said on Thursday.

8:41PM

UAE

UAE breaks up ‘al-Qaeda cell’

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have broken up an al-Qaeda cell comprising seven Arabs who were plotting attacks in the Gulf state, an official statement said on Thursday.

5:37PM

SYRIA

Syria’s Assad says West will pay for ‘supporting’ al-Qaeda

President Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday the West that it will pay a heavy price for its alleged support of al-Qaeda in Syria and said his regime’s defeat is not an option.

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