Al Qaeda claims responsibility in Iraq blasts that killed 127
CNN - 34 minutes agoAl Qaeda's umbrella group in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for a string of suicide car bombings that killed 127 people and injured 448 earlier this week.
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Al Qaeda's umbrella group in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for a string of suicide car bombings that killed 127 people and injured 448 earlier this week.
Progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan probably will be slower than during the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq two years ago, and the war will be "harder before it gets easier," a top U.S. general said Wednesday.
A spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the kidnappings of one Frenchman and three Spaniards, seized late last month in Mali and Mauritania, in a sound tape released Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television.
The former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, testifying before Congress, says the troop escalation in Afghanistan won't bring progress as quickly as in Iraq. But he calls the situation 'no more hopeless.' Progress will come more slowly from the U.S. troop escalation in Afghanistan than it did during a similar move in Iraq, the top American commander in the Middle East told Congress on Wednesday ...
Pakistan's military operations have "significantly degraded" Taliban militants but Islamabad has yet to go after the Taliban's Afghan leadership, a top US general said on Wednesday.
Pakistani intelligence agents are interrogating five detained American Muslims over possible links to extremists. They said Thursday that the men were cooperating after first giving conflicting statements.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sacked Baghdad's security chief on Wednesday after attacks which killed 127 people, with police charging that the bombers were backed by groups in Syria or Saudi Arabia.
Blast walls built to shield the holy Shiite site from further attacks prove a crushing blow to isolated residents of Samarra, Iraq
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is prepared to give Pakistan more help fighting al-Qaida forces if its government wants it.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan's anti-insurgency campaign has helped the U.S. effort to "degrade the extremist groups" along the Afghan-Pakistan border, a top U.S. commander said.
Bombings that killed 112 people were carried out with foreign backing, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday, before changing the head of Baghdad security in a move aimed at thwarting pre-election violence.
The U.S. general in charge of the war in Afghanistan says capturing Osama bin Laden is the ultimate key to defeating the al-Qaida terror network.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the kidnappings last month of four Europeans in Mali and Mauritania, al-Jazeera reported, citing an audiotape the broadcaster said it obtained from the group.
The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan says capturing Osama bin Laden is the ultimate key to defeating the al Qaeda terror network. General Stanley McChrystal told Congress on Tuesday that bin Laden is an "iconic figure" whose very survival eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks serves as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda. U.S. intelligence officials believe bin Laden is in hiding in ...
General Says Afghanistan will "Get Harder Before it Gets Easier"; Taliban and al Qaeda Tied Together
What's Your Reaction? Days after his boss said that there was no new intelligence on the whereabouts of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told Congress Tuesday that killing or capturing bin Laden is critical to defeating the terrorist organization.
U.S. commanders in Afghanistan are reporting a sudden surge in Afghan army recruits this month, a much-needed boost after Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his security forces may not be able to take over from U.S. troops for up to five more years.
Progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan probably will be slower than seen during the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq two years ago, but the Afghan campaign "is not hopeless," a top U.S. general said Wednesday.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- As the United States braces for a major escalation in the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is launching a new drive to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, declaring that he's the key to defeating al-Qaida.
WASHINGTON - Dallas is now officially one of the nation's top 10 terrorist targets - a designation that sounds alarming but which state and local officials have sought for years, because it means millions in federal funds to beef up security.
WASHINGTON -- For the past week, I have been mulling over two intriguing things President Obama said the day he announced his Afghanistan policy -- one about the political strategy that underlies his presidency, and the other about the delicate question of negotiating with the Taliban . The setting was a luncheon for columnists in the White House library. It was Dec. 1, and the president was ...