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Iran denies link with Canada terror plot suspects
Iran on Tuesday denied any links with an alleged terrorist plot that Canadian authorities claim was directed by al-Qaida operatives in Iran and sought ...
Police: 2 arrested in al-Qaida linked Canada plot
Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, ...
Yemen officials: US drone kills 2 militants
Yemeni army officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed two suspected al-Qaida militants east of the capital, sparking a retaliatory attack on a ...
Russia's Chechnya has seen decades of war, terror
The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings have their ethnic roots in Chechnya, a part of the Caucasus Mountains that has spawned ...
9 killed by gunman in Kenya, near Somali border
A police chief says that a masked gunman believed to be a member of an al-Qaida-linked Somalia militant group stormed a hotel in a Kenyan city near ...
Activists: Rebels capture base in central Syria
Syrian rebels captured a military base in the strategic Homs province on Thursday as opposition fighters fought to expand territory under their ...
Report: Ansar Dine spokesman seeks surrender
A spokesman for an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender and be extradited to face trial in his home country of Mauritania, ...
UAE: Arrests made in suspected al-Qaida cell
The United Arab Emirates said Thursday that authorities have arrested seven suspected members of terrorist cell linked to al-Qaida that allegedly ...
4 UK men jailed for toy-car terror plot
The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives. But investigators said Thursday Britain's domestic ...
Yemen: US drone strikes kill 5 al-Qaida suspects
Two U.S. drone strikes Wednesday killed at least five suspected al-Qaida militants and destroyed the house of one of them in a mountainous area south ...
Assad accuses West of backing al-Qaida in Syria
Syria's president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country's civil war, warning it will pay a price "in the heart" of Europe ...
Iraq executes 21 men convicted of terrorism
Iraq has executed 21 prisoners convicted on terrorism charges and links to al-Qaida, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday, setting off fresh criticism ...
Pressure cooker bombs suspected in Boston blast
Federal agents zeroed in Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ...
Pressure cooker bombs used in past by militants
Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers, a version of which was used in the Boston Marathon bombings, have been a frequent weapon of militants in ...
Boston attacks are reminder of violence elsewhere
The blasts that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday were shocking not only for their brazenness and the lives they shattered, but also because ...
Jordan extremist praises Boston bombing
The head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group said early Tuesday that he was "happy to see the horror in America" after the explosions in ...
Somalia leader: Foreigners aided attack on court
Somalia's prime minister said Monday that several experienced foreign fighters took part in the most serious Islamic extremist attack on Mogadishu in ...
Iraq attacks kill 55 less than a week before vote
Insurgents in Iraq deployed a series of car bombs as part of highly coordinated attacks that cut across a wide swath of the country Monday, killing ...
Activists: Syrian regime airstrikes kill 25
Syrian government warplanes carried out airstrikes on a rebellious neighborhood in the capital and a village in the country's northeast on Sunday, ...
US team using Twitter, Facebook to fight militants
The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a ...
Suicide bombing in north Mali kills 3 Chad troops
A suicide bombing by Islamic militants has killed at least three Chad soldiers and injured civilians at a market, officials and a humanitarian worker ...
Bombs hit Iraq mosque after prayers, killing 11
A pair of bombs struck in quick succession outside a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than 30.
Syrian troops launch counterattack on south
Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing a town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, ...
Yemen president orders military shakeup
Yemen's president removed his predecessor's son and nephews from powerful security posts on Wednesday in the most dramatic step yet in sidelining old ...
Tensions emerge in al-Qaida alliance in Syria
Tensions emerged Wednesday in a newly announced alliance between al-Qaida's franchise in Iraq and the most powerful Syrian rebel faction, which said ...