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An apparent U.S. missile strike along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan is believed to have killed a top al-Qaeda operations planner this week, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Friday. If confirmed, this would be the second deadly attack against a senior terrorist leader this fall.
A “high-ranking” al-Qaida figure was killed Thursday in an attack by a U.S. Predator drone aircraft, U.S. officials told NBC News.
FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.
BAGHDAD — Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week...
(RTTNews) - A top al-Qaeda operative has been reportedly killed in a drone attack in north-west Pakistan, a US government official said Thursday.
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaida operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan. The official would not immediately identify the target of the attack, which he said occurred very recently.
The drones are used to target senior al-Qaida operatives and Taliban in Pakistan's tribal area along the border with Afghanistan, but the agency has never publicly confirmed its role in the operation.
An imam charged with lying in the investigation of an alleged terrorism plot against New York says he's a loyal American who was framed.
SARGODHA, Pakistan — Pakistani police arrested five American Muslims this week on suspicion of planning terrorist actions after Khalid Farooq, the father of one of them, turned them in, alarmed that they were determined to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials and friends of the family said Friday.
An unmanned drone aircraft killed a "high-ranking" al-Qaeda operative today in northwest Pakistan, according to a news report. Officials did not identify who was killed other than to say that it was not terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Authorities ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will submit to a grilling Thursday by furious MPs demanding to know how Al-Qaeda bombers slipped past security cordons to launch devastating attacks in Baghdad.
A missile fired this week by a Central Intelligence Agency drone over Pakistan killed a top Qaeda operations planner, according to U.S. officials.
Five arrested in Pakistan wanted to fight U.S. troops, contacted Taliban recruiter, officials say.
A missile fired this week by a Central Intelligence Agency drone over Pakistan’s tribal regions killed a top Qaeda operations planner, according to U.S. officials.
Five arrested in Pakistan contacted radical groups, including two linked to al-Qaeda, officials say.
President Obama’s evolving approach to national security as set out in his Nobel Prize speech lacks bumper-sticker simplicity.
Five men from Northern Virginia who were arrested Tuesday in Pakistan traveled abroad hoping to work with jihadist groups and battle U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and they were in contact with a recruiter for the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani officials said Friday.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- If the people who audit the nation’s public companies are forced to reveal themselves, then the terrorists will win. At least that’s one of the arguments coming from the U.S. accounting profession, now that its main regulator is thinking of requiring audit partners to sign their names when they vouch for companies’ financial statements.
Amnesty International on Friday warned that Iraq's plans to move an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in the country's remote south would put them at risk of arbitrary arrest and torture.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday that Arab and Kurdish leaders in Iraq were moving toward settling their differences and he urged them to form an inclusive government quickly after a March vote.
Al Qaeda's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people and wounded more than 500, warning of more strikes to come.
