Iraqi Minister: 4 al-Qaida Inmates Have Escaped From Jail

Iraq’s justice minister said on Thursday that four  al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the US to Iraqi authorities a week ago. The minister, Dara Noureddin, said the four were awaiting trial on terrorism charges and had escaped from the prison formerly known as Camp Cropper. The [...]

43 killed by suicide attack in Iraq

A suicide bomber targeting army soldiers and members of a government-backed militia killed at least 43 people and wounded 46 on Sunday, Iraqi officials said. The bomber targeted the victims who were lining up to receive their paychecks. Although violence has decreased in Iraq in the past two years, members of the security forces remain [...]

Hillary Clinton Lands in Pakistan on Key Mission

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Pakistan today to being a tour of South Asia aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. Her mission is to push neighboring countries of Afghanistan to cooperate in the fight against al-Qaida and Taliban extremists. Clinton landed in Islamabad, the [...]

NYC Subway Bomb Plot Linked With British Plotter

A failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway station system last year was part of a larger al-Qaida terrorist conspiracy that planned a similar attack in London. The link was announced on Wednesday by US prosecutors in an indictment unsealed. The prosecutors added several al-Qaida figures to the case, which includes [...]

CIA and Pakistan locked in spy battles

Pakistan’s Spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is spying the CIA and trying to run a double agent against them. This was discovered and concluded when a Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad last year and offered to give up secrets of his country’s closely guarded nuclear program. He also claimed to possess spent nuclear [...]

4 Commuters Killed in Philippines

Four people died and six were wounded on a village road when about thirty hooded attackers shot and hacked them Thursday as they ran, horrified of the gunmen believed to be Abu Sayyaf militants. The victims who were thought as commuters in a jeepney going home from Isabela City. Two passengers died at the scene [...]

3 hostages killed in southern Philippines

Militants killed three hostages in a village outside Sumisip township on the island of Basilan, in southern Philippines. Al-Qaida linked militants abducted three workers and after their families failed to pay a demand ransom, they have been fatally shot all over the body according to military on Saturday. The victims have been abducted on May [...]

7 arrests in 6 NATO troops death

Seven people were captured and taken into custody according t Saeed Ansari, spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence service and one of the seven included one school teacher. It is not known and intelligence service did not specify what specific roles each of the seven played in several attack and it was unclear what will be the [...]

New al-Qaida leader in Iraq vows blood-soaked days for Shiites; bomb blasts wounding 20

The new al-Qaida leader in Iraq warned Shiites that dark days soaked with blood lie ahead and that a new campaign of attacks was under way, on Friday. After the warning was made, within hours a bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad just after Friday prayers, which wounded 20 people, the local [...]

4 policemen killed after gunmen attack checkpoint in Pakistan

A police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan was attacked by gunmen at dawn on Friday, who killed four policemen before speeding away in a getaway vehicle, police said. “Four policemen were killed on the spot. They were taking shelter inside the checkpost when rain started. One injured is still unconscious,” Zulfiqar Jadoon, a police official from the scene in Mansehra [...]

Iraq’s Al-Qaida leaders killed

Iraq’s government together with the U.S. claimed a great success and victory of killing two seniors and leaders of the top brutal organization Al-Qaida. Iraq’s Al-Qaida  leaders Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri was killed by an air and ground assault on their safehouse which is near at Saddam Hussein’s hometown. This news was [...]

113 al-Qaida suspects arrested by Saudi Arabia

113 suspected al-Qaida members accused of planning attacks on oil facilities inside the kingdom have been arrested in Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The suspects arrested are claimed to have joined and organized attacks with al-Qaida, and had come to Saudi Arabia on visas to visit holy sites or by sneaking across its borders. Although [...]

‘JihadJane’ allegedly plotted killing Swedish cartoonist

An American woman, calling herself ‘JihadJane,’ was alleged on Tuesday to have contacted at least 5 terrorists living in different countries in a plot to murder a Swede cartoonist, who had drawn unethical images of the Prophet Mohammed. An indictment was unsealed on Wednesday in which prosecutors accused the divorced, middle-aged Colleen Renee LaRose for [...]

11 dead as blast hits police building in Pakistan

A suicide car bomber hit a building in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Monday, where police interrogate high-value suspects, killing at least 11 people and wounding 61 others, including women taking children to school, officials said. The attack broke what had been a relative lull in major violence in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country reviled by [...]

Al-Qaida tells US Muslims to attack America

On Sunday, the American-born spokesperson of al-Qaida called on all Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to follow the steps of the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. The message was conveyed via a 25-minute video posted on militant Web Sites. The spokesman named Adam Godadhn, also known as Azzam [...]

Top Pakistani Taliban deputy believed dead

A leading Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest blow on insurgents attacking Pakistan and threatening U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Maulvi Faqir Mohammed was believed to be among a number of insurgents killed Friday at a sprawling compound in the northwest Mohmand tribal region, Interior Minister [...]

Pakistan Army kills 38 militants in operation

On Wednesday, Pakistan’s paramilitary forces said that their troops had killed 38 militants during a week-long operation against the Taliban, under the codename “Spring Cleaning”. The head of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, Sifwat Ghayoor, told reporters that troops seized control of the Taliban stronghold Pastawana near the garrison city of Kohat. The operation was launched [...]

Pakistan, India hold first official talks since 2008 Mumbai attacks

Pakistan and India held their first official talks after 15 months on Thursday. The last talks held between the two rival countries were before the 2008 Mumbai siege. Both sides said they wanted to rebuild the trust shattered in that attack, making the meeting a first step towards a renewed peace process. The nuclear-armed rivals [...]

Tora Bora commander killed: Afghan police

Police say a suicide bomber has killed 15 people in eastern Afghanistan, including a key tribal leader who played a major role in a failed attempt to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001. Police Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi says the bomber set off his explosives in Khogyani district next to a small [...]

Philippine troops kill 6 al-Qaida-linked militants

Philippine marines killed a top al-Qaida-linked militant commander and five other extremists early Sunday in an assault on a rebel encampment on a southern island, a senior military commander said. A marine special operations platoon raided an Abu Sayyaf camp outside Maimbung township on Jolo island following intelligence reports that two wanted militant leaders, Umbra Jumdail and Albader [...]

Suicide attackers strike Pakistani police stations

In an apparently coordinated attack, suicide bombers struck two police stations Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing a police chief, and wounding four officers, authorities said. The chaos comes after Pakistan and the U.S. appeared to have made gains in the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Officials confirmed earlier in the week that the No. [...]

Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76

The late Rep. Charlie Wilson worked tenaciously to funnel millions of dollars in weapons to Afghan rebels who fought off the Soviet Union, only to watch Afghanistan plunge into chaos and eventually harbor al-Qaida terrorists. The course of events greatly saddened the rakish Texan, who died Wednesday at age 76, and he believed it could have been [...]

Suicide Attack Kills 17, Including Police, in Pakistan

At least 17 people, including 13 police officials, were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy in the northwestern tribal area of Khyber, Pakistan, local news outlets reported. Located within the North-West Frontier Province, and Peshawar being its capital, Khyber serves as one of the main supply routes for the American forces inside [...]

7 dead, including 3 U.S. soldiers, in Pakistan blast

Seven people, including 3 U.S. soldiers, were killed in a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani security officials said. The three U.S. soldiers were travelling with Pakistan security force members. The three soldiers were in the region as part of a small, little-publicized U.S. mission to train members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps to better [...]

Female suicide bomber kills 46 in Iraq

A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in Baghdad on Monday while walking amongst Shiite pilgrims, killing 46 people and wounding more than 100, officials said. The bombing marked the first strike this year against pilgrims heading towards the city of Karbala for a Shiite holy day. Fears of further attacks are expected especially [...]

Osama bin Laden takes responsibility of Christmas bombing attempt in Detroit

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt in Detroit, in an audio message released on Sunday. In the message, bin Laden vowed further attacks on the U.S. The message showed that bin Laden was in direct command of al-Qaida’s numerous branches around the globe. The short recording was [...]

India issues terror alert over hijack plot

After the Indian government received warnings about a possible attack on one of its Airlines on Thursday, India issued a terror alert at all its airports. Airline passengers across the country went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that al-Qaida-linked militants [...]

Alleged U.S. missiles kill 12 in Pakistan

Suspected U.S. missiles killed at least 12 alleged militants on Thursday in a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, and the eighth such attack in two weeks. The strike is yet another attack , despite the Pakistani protests, that have surged in number in recent days. [...]

U.S. & UK shut down embassies in Yemen

The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday because of threats from al-Qaida. The closure came a day after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked to the failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas. The top U.S. general in the [...]