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Ayman al-Zawahiri (R) pictured with Osama bin Laden

Did US use secret missile to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri?

Notorious Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by two missiles fired at his Kabul home, but pictures showed no sign of an explosion, and US officials say no one else was harmed.

World • 02 Aug 22

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri pictured during a pre-recorded broadcast on Al-Jazeera in 2006

How it happened: The killing of al-Qaeda's Zawahiri

Despite a $25 million US bounty on his head, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri apparently felt comfortable enough with the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan to move into a home in Kabul where he would regularly appear out in the open, on his balcony.

World • 02 Aug 22

The operation was conducted using an MQ-9 aircraft (file picture)

Senior Al-Qaeda leader killed in drone strike, says US

The United States has said a senior Al-Qaeda leader has been killed in a US drone strike in Syria.

World • 23 Oct 21

President Donald Trump is preparing for a partial withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and Iraq

US to cut forces in Afghanistan, not full withdrawal

US President Donald Trump will sharply reduce the number of US forces in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 before he leaves office, the Pentagon has announced, stopping short of the complete withdrawal he threatened to carry out by Christmas.

World • 17 Nov 20

12 people were killed in the attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's former office

Alleged accomplices on trial over Charlie Hebdo attack

Fourteen alleged accomplices to the Islamist gunmen who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have gone on trial.

Europe • 02 Sep 20

US President Donald Trump said the death of Qassim al-Rimi degrades global al-Qaeda movement

Trump confirms killing of al-Qaeda chief in Yemen

US President Donald Trump confirmed that the US had killed the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - days after the jihadist group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US naval base.

World • 07 Feb 20

Hamza bin Laden was being groomed as heir to the Al-Qaeda leadership

US confirms death of Hamza bin Laden

The White House said in a statement that Hamza bin Laden, a son of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, was killed in a US counter terrorism operation.

US • 14 Sep 19

Earlier this year, the US offered a bounty of up to $1m for information on Hamza bin Laden's whereabouts

Osama bin Laden's son Hamza killed - reports

US media are quoting intelligence sources as saying that Hamza bin Laden, one of the sons of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been killed.

World • 01 Aug 19

Who is Hamza bin Laden?

Hamza bin Laden is believed to be about 30 years old and is the youngest son of Osama bin Laden.

World • 01 Mar 19

Hamza bin Laden, who is believed to be about 30 years old, was officially designated by the US as a global terrorist two years ago

US offers $1m reward in hunt for Osama bin Laden's son

The United States has offered a $1m reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism.

World • 01 Mar 19

UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock (C) during visit to Syrian city of Homs

UN: tens of thousands displaced by fighting in Syria

The United Nations has said that nearly 100,000 people have been displaced since early December by fighting in northwestern Syria, where the regime is waging an offensive against jihadists.

World • 10 Jan 18

Hostage taker was shot dead by police in Melbourne

Shooting and siege in Australia 'terrorist incident'

Australian police have said they are treating a deadly shooting and siege in Melbourne as a terrorist incident, after the so-called Islamic State group said it was behind the attack.

News • 06 Jun 17

US claims to have killed a leading al-Qaeda militant in an airstrike Afghanistan

Leading al-Qaeda militant killed in US air strike

The Pentagon has said a US air strike in Afghanistan this week killed an al-Qaeda militant who was responsible for the deaths of two US service members in 2008.

News • 26 Mar 17

Sophie Petronin was abducted in the city of Gao (Pic: Google Maps)

French aid worker kidnapped in Mali

A Frenchwoman who runs an organisation for malnourished children has been kidnapped in Mali, France's foreign ministry confirmed, as French troops joined in the search for the aid worker.

News • 25 Dec 16

Deaths in OECD countries increased from 77 in 2014 to 577 in 2015

577 terrorism deaths in OECD countries in 2015

Terrorism deaths fell last year due to a weakening of the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq and Boko Haram in Nigeria, but both groups expanded their geographic reach, a new index reveals.

News • 16 Nov 16

Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed in a US drone strike

Al-Qaeda in Yemen confirms death of leader

Al Qaeda in Yemen has said its leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, has been killed in a US air strike.

News • 16 Jun 15

Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been
referred to as the most elusive jihadi leaders in the region

'Uncatchable' militant killed in US strike

An Islamist militant, blamed for masterminding an Algerian gas field attack and running smuggling routes across North Africa, has reportedly been killed in a US air strike inside Libya.

News • 15 Jun 15

Intercepted phones calls suggest the Vatican may have been a possible target

Vatican possible target of al-Qaeda attack

Prosecutors in Italy have said an al-Qaeda linked group may have been planning an attack against the Vatican.

News • 24 Apr 15

A man inspects the damage of a bomb blast at a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen

Al-Qaeda driven out of Yemen city after killing 20

Al-Qaeda fighters captured the capital of a province in southern Yemen late last night, killing about 20 soldiers, before they were driven out by the army,local officials and residents said.

News • 21 Mar 15

Fighters from the Al-Nusra front, Al-Qaeda's Syrian offshoot

MI5 chief warns over Al-Qaeda terror threat

The head of British intelligence agency MI5 has warned that a group of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning "mass casualty attacks" against the West.

News • 08 Jan 15

The FBI had been looking for Shukrijumah over possible terrorist threats against the US

Senior Al-Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan

Pakistan's military has said it has killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader wanted by the US over a 2009 plot to attack the New York subway system.

News • 06 Dec 14

South African Pierre Korkie had been teaching in Yemen when he was abducted in May last year

Two hostages murdered by Al-Qaeda in Yemen

A US photojournalist has been killed by militants during an operation aimed at freeing him from Al-Qaeda kidnappers in Yemen, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has said.

News • 06 Dec 14

The ECHR ruled that Poland had violated articles on the prohibition of torture and the right to liberty

European court rules against Poland over CIA jail

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing the CIA to detain two al-Qaeda suspects on Polish territory.

News • 24 Jul 14

A member of jihadist group al-Nusra Front stands in a street of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo

26 killed in barrel bomb attacks in Aleppo

At least 26 people were killed in aerial attacks with explosive-packed barrel bombs in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo today, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

News • 03 Feb 14

Sunni fighters carry RPG missiles launcher and machine guns as they take up position in Fallujah

Fallujah residents urged to drive out militants

Iraq's prime minister has urged people in the besieged city of Fallujah to drive out al-Qaeda-linked insurgents to pre-empt a military offensive that could be launched within days.

News • 06 Jan 14