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Targeted by drone strikes in Pakistan, al-Qaida is losing ground and financing even as attacks by Islamist groups are on the rise, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.
Al-Qaida's deputy leader said Barack Obama has deceived Arabs about his efforts to restart Mideast peace talks, and claimed in a message posted Monday that the American president has done nothing for the region so far.
Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday accused President Barack Obama of deceiving the Arab world and failing to advance Middle East peace talks, and said the militants' struggle against the United States and its allies is "a war between Muslims and infidels."
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The decision to hold trials for several alleged members of Al Qaeda in Manhattan federal court isn’t final, a U.S. spokesman said, leaving open the possibility that the cases will be heard in another jurisdiction.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. officials are close to deciding whether to try several accused al-Qaida operatives, now in Guantanamo, in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., sources said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Washington should be chastised for it attacks on Muslims fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, an American member of al-Qaida said in a video message.
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida is currently circulating a gruesome videotape showing the interrogation and execution of a senior Yemeni intelligence officer, Col. Suleiman Tarbush, kidnapped in June, as a warning to Muslims who collaborate with the United States and Israel.
After a year of soaring violence and weakening government control in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a flagship US strategy aimed at ending the war against Al-Qaeda ushers in a 2010 fraught with peril.
Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan — who grew up in Maryland before allegedly enlisting with al-Qaida — to face trial in New York, a person familiar with the discussions said Monday.
CAIRO (AP) – Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday accused President Barack Obama of deceiving the Arab world and failing to advance Middle East peace talks, and said the militants' struggle against the United States and its allies is "a war between Muslims and infidels." In a new message posted on the Internet, Ayman Al-Zawahri claimed Obama has brought the region nothing but "blockade and siege ...
Fewer foreign volunteers are making it into Iraq to fight with Al Qaeda against the U.S.-backed government but the group has switched to fewer but more deadly attacks, U.S. General David Petraeus said on Sunday.
The vanguard of the 30,000 US troop surge to Afghanistan will arrive this week to fight a war increasingly linked to Al-Qaeda and extremists in Pakistan, the top US military officer said Monday.
Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri slammed US President Barack Obama's Middle East policy, saying it is designed to humiliate Muslims, in an Internet audio message posted on Monday.
CAIRO — Al-Qaida’s deputy leader said Barack Obama has deceived Arabs about his efforts to restart Mideast peace talks, and claimed in a message posted Monday that the American president has done nothing for the region so far.Ayman Al-Zawahri also vowed the terror network will not forget militants held in American prisons — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaida’s mastermind of the Sept. 11 ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Veteran al-Qaida terrorists are leaving Pakistan and Afghanistan and are heading to Yemen, U.S. and foreign government officials say.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is "positively considering" a request to extend a U.N. investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto for an additional three months.
The vanguard of the US surge to Afghanistan will arrive this week amid growing concern about collusion between Taliban and Al-Qaeda with militants in Pakistan, the top US military officer said Monday.
An al Qaeda spokesman released a video message in English offering condolences to its "unintended Muslim victims" killed in attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.
Cairo - The second-in-command of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network has criticized the government of Egypt for clamping down on smuggling via tunnels across its border into the Gaza Strip. Ayman al-Zawahiri made the comments in a new 25-minute audio stat...
Al Qaeda's deputy leader on Monday accused President Barack Obama of deceiving the Arab world and failing to advance Middle East peace talks, and said the militants' struggle against the United States and its allies is "a war between Muslims and infidels."
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