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Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden has been convicted of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding ...
Tracking Terror: Malaysian tells Philippine ordeal
A Malaysian wildlife trader held captive by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants for a year in the southern Philippines says he saw group members as young ...
Mogadishu's Bakara market clean-up upsets some
Like many other residents of Mogadishu, Ali Osman, who sells wares at the Bakara market, had longed for an end to lawlessness and violence that ...
Gunmen open fire at rally in Pakistan, 9 killed
Gunmen opened fire on a political rally in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and sparking rioting, police said.
96 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing
A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at ...
Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon
Syria's war barreled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly street ...
Death toll in Yemen bombing rises to 38 soldiers
Officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 38 troops. The military officials ...
Prosecutors seek life for Bali bombing suspect
Prosecutors said Monday an Indonesian militant known as the "Demolition Man" should spend the rest of his life in prison for helping to build the car ...
Yemen: 36 killed in fighting with al-Qaida
Yemeni officials say fresh clashes with al-Qaida fighters in the south have left at least 34 people dead, while a suspected U.S. drone strike has ...
Car bomb in eastern Syrian city kills 9
A car bomb in the parking lot of a Syrian military compound killed at least nine people Saturday, the latest in increasingly frequent bombings in the ...
World leaders confront flagging Afghan war
It was what President Barack Obama called a "war of necessity," a conflict thrust upon America by the 9/11 attacks. As NATO's mission here winds down ...
Yemeni army pushing into al-Qaida stronghold
Government troops battling al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen have made inroads into the militants' strongholds, but the offensive on a strategic ...
Attack on Afghan government compound kills 7
A group of suicide bombers armed with explosive-laden vests, automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades stormed a government compound Thursday ...
Young man sought in Colombia bombing
Colombian investigators on Wednesday were seeking a man between 17 and 20 years old they say could be the bomber who killed two bodyguards of a ...
Official: 1 dead from attack on Kenya's coast
Attackers fired shots and detonated four grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing a ...
US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have waged a four-front assault against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with ...
Fierce clashes between Yemeni army, al-Qaida
Yemeni military officials say warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have intensified the war against al-Qaida along at least four fronts in ...
Americans train Ugandans for Somalia mission
American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's ...
Yemeni raids kill 16 al-Qaida militants in south
Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida targets on Monday, killing at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot ...
AP Exclusive: Secret case against Pakistan officer
From his prison cell, a senior Pakistani officer accused of plotting with a shadowy Islamist organization to take over the military released his ...
Yemen: US drone strikes kill 11 al-Qaida militants
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes have killed 11 al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen, military officials in the country say. The first of the two ...
Militant video claims deadly Syria bombings
A video posted online in the name of a shadowy militant group late Friday claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital this ...
Suicide attacks in Syria add wild card element
The latest suicide bombings in the Syrian capital showed an increasing ruthlessness: The attackers struck during rush hour, setting off one blast to ...