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Blast at Syrian regime building in capital kills 5
Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing at least five people, as rebels fighting to ...
Review: 'Zero Dark Thirty' is massive, meticulous
Until the very end, she is described as "The Girl." Even after a relentless, decade-long pursuit that leads to the daring midnight raid of Osama bin ...
Extremists among Syrian rebels who seized base
Syrian rebels including Islamic extremists took full control of a sprawling military base Tuesday after a bloody two-day battle that killed 35 ...
AP Exclusive: ACLU seeks OAS probe of Padilla case
A civil liberties group asked the Organization of American States' human rights commission Tuesday to investigate the U.S. government for what it says ...
Senior Yemeni intelligence officer killed
Yemeni military officials say that a senior intelligence officer in southeastern Hadramawt province has been killed by two unknown assailants on a ...
Syrian rebels capture parts of army base in north
Rebels captured part of a sprawling Syrian army base outside the embattled northern city of Aleppo, tightening the opposition's grip on areas close ...
Pakistan: US drone strike kills al-Qaida commander
A U.S. drone strike has killed an al-Qaida commander in Pakistan's northwest, the second member of the Islamic militant network killed in the area in ...
Pakistan: US drone kills senior al-Qaida leader
A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said, in ...
Iraq officials say bombing kills 3
Iraqi authorities say a bomb exploded near the house of an anti-al-Qaida militiaman south of Baghdad, killing him, his 8-year-old son and another ...
Yemen: 8 soldiers killed in ambush
Eight Yemeni soldiers including a senior officer were killed in an ambush by militants while visiting a main oil pipeline that had been destroyed in ...
Bombing wounds Afghan intelligence chief
A Taliban suicide bomber posing as a messenger of peace blew himself up near Afghanistan's newly appointed intelligence chief on Thursday, seriously ...
US drone kills 3 suspected militants in Pakistan
A U.S. drone fired a pair of missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Thursday, killing three suspected ...
US military planners focused on Mali intervention
U.S. military planners are working closely with African nations in advance of an offensive to wrest control of northern Mali from al-Qaida linked ...
African leader aims for Mali mission in early 2013
U.N.-mandated African forces could intervene early next year to dislodge al-Qaida-affiliates from their new stronghold in northern Mali, Ivory Coast's ...
Officials: US to blacklist a Syrian rebel group
The Obama administration is preparing to designate a Syrian rebel group with alleged ties to al-Qaida as a foreign terrorist organization in a step ...
Official: Militants kill 12 soldiers in Somalia
Islamist extremists attacked an army post in northeastern Somalia, killing 12 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months by the ...
Islamist sect in Nigeria grows more deadly
The radical Islamist fighters gather around piles of weapons and ammunition they've stolen and shout praises to God as they shoot into the expanse of ...
Mali separatists, Islamists make key pledges
Ethnic Tuareg rebels have agreed to stop pursuing a separate state in Mali's north, while one of the extremist Islamist groups in the area has pledged ...
Amnesty details 'horrific' abuses in south Yemen
Al-Qaida committed "horrific" rights abuses during its 16 months in power in southern Yemen, Amnesty International charged in a report released ...
US military: Intervention in Mali now would fail
The top US military commander in Africa warned Monday against any premature military action in Mali, even as he said that al-Qaida linked extremists ...
10 on trial in France for alleged jihadist funding
Ten people have gone on trial in Paris for alleged links to the financing of a jihadist movement that the U.N. Security Council considers an affiliate ...
Leader of al-Qaida unit in Mali quits AQIM
An Algerian-born jihadist who heads one of the most powerful and feared cells of al-Qaida's North African branch has decided to leave the al-Qaida ...
Niger's president vows to help Mali
Niger's president says his country is ready to help Mali regain its northern region which is occupied by Islamist rebels. Niger President Mahamadou ...
Gunmen kill Sunni fighter, 2 sons in Iraq
Iraqi authorities say gunmen broke into the house of an anti-al-Qaida militiaman north of Baghdad and killed him and his two sons. A police officer ...
Family defends brothers charged in Fla. plot
Two Florida brothers charged with plotting to support terrorists are caring family men who enjoyed living in the U.S. and would never hurt anyone, ...