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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.
The Pakistani military has refused to turn on Siraj Haqqani, the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan and a long time asset of the Pakistani spy agency.
A Syrian man imprisoned in Canada for seven years on terror charges has been reformed by the experience and no longer poses a security threat, a court ruled Monday.
The second-highest ranking U.S. general in Afghanistan said Monday the planned rapid escalation of American troops would take longer than expected to carry out, indicating it will probably be nine to 11 months before they are all in place.
The United States may be expanding its war against Al-Qaeda, but experts warn that prize target Osama bin Laden has become a symbolic icon whose liquidation alone would not destroy the terror network.
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.
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-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."
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Deployment of Some Units Likely To Take 9 to 11 Months, 2nd Highest Ranking U.S. General in Afghanistan Says
The government of a southern Philippine island appealed Monday for a state of emergency to be declared after dozens of Islamic militants escaped from jail and others beheaded a hostage.
At about 1:30 P.M. on November 5, Army Specialist Logan Burnette, a thick-chested, baby-faced soldier scheduled to deploy to Iraq in a few short weeks, was sitting in the back row of a small auditorium-like room at the Fort Hood Army base near Killeen, Texas. Burnette was joking with several other soldiers as they waited--and waited and waited--to see a doctor for a final pre-mobilization ...
A network of militant Islamist groups stretches from India to the Iranian border, from the Hindu Kush to the Indian Ocean.
Prison life has been eased for convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, boosting concerns about what will happen when President Barack Obama moves dozens of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees to U.S. soil.
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.
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 "war between Muslims and infidels."
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