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Suspected al-Qaeda leader dies in custody

The suspected leader of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that claimed responsibility for bombing the Iranian embassy in Beirut two months ago has died in custody.

News • 04 Jan 14

The United States has sent two detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their native Sudan

US repatriates two Guantanamo prisoners to Sudan

The United States has sent two detainees held at Guantanamo Bay back to their native Sudan, the US Defense Department said.

News • 19 Dec 13

Syrian rebels in earlier action: latest bomb and gun attack linked to Al- Qaeda

Al-Qaeda-linked attacks kill 30 Syrian troops

Syrian rebels blew up an army checkpoint outside Damascus and more than 30 combatants from both sides died in the blast and ensuing clashes.

News • 20 Oct 13

A worker clears up after a car bomb in Baghdad on a day in which at least 59 died in attacks

Iraq bombs targeting minorities kill 59

At least 59 people have been killed in attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq, including a suicide truck bomb targeting members of the country's Shabak minority.

News • 18 Oct 13

The Baghdad suburb of Shaab was among those hit in a wave of violence which has killed almost 80 people in the last few days

Seven more deaths in Iraq as violence continues

Shootings and a bombing have killed at least seven more people in Iraq as a major surge in violence there continues.

News • 11 Aug 13

Pakistani security personnel stand guard outside the US consulate in Lahore earlier this week

US citizens warned not to travel to Pakistan

The United States has ordered the evacuation of non-essential staff from its consulate in the northeastern Pakistani city of Lahore due to the threat of attack.

News • 09 Aug 13

Yemeni soldiers search a motorbike at a checkpoint on a street leading to the US embassy compound in Sanaa

US citizens ordered to leave Yemen

The US State Department has ordered its citizens in Yemen to leave immediately, due to the continued potential for a terrorist attack.

News • 06 Aug 13

19 US embassies and consulates will remain closed until next weekend

US extends closure of embassies after threat

The United States has extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution after an al-Qaeda threat.

News • 05 Aug 13

Ayman al-Zawahri also criticised Hezbollah over its involvement in the conflict in Syria

Al-Qaeda vows to fight to free Guantanamo inmates

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has criticised US treatment of hunger striking inmates at Guantanamo Bay and said the group would spare no effort to free them.

News • 31 Jul 13

Nearly 600 have died in militant attacks across Iraq in July

Hundreds of convicts escape from Abu Ghraib

Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al-Qaeda, have broken out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail after comrades launched a military-style assault to free them.

News • 23 Jul 13

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted it will not mean putting boots on the ground in the North African nation

NATO to send alliance to Libya if required

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has announced that the alliance will send an expert mission to Libya at short notice to assess needs as the country faces a flow of insurgents from Mali.

News • 04 Jun 13

US military to send reinforcements to Guantanamo detention facility

84 detainees on hunger strike at Guantanamo

The US military is sending additional medical personnel to the Guantanamo prison camp, where more than half the captives have joined a hunger strike to protest their open-ended detention.

News • 22 Apr 13

Some of the Emirates have seen a rise in Islamist sentiment in recent years

Seven-member al-Qaeda cell arrested in UAE

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have arrested a seven-member group linked to al-Qaeda which was planning actions against the country's security.

News • 18 Apr 13

Syrian people stand in the middle of a street in the Saladin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, yesterday

Claims Syrian rebel group is al-Qaeda branch

The Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda has announced that rebel group al-Nusra Front,which is at the forefront of the Syria rebellion, is a branch of al-Qaeda.

News • 09 Apr 13

One of the tips appears to have come directly from Osama bin Laden

Al-Qaeda list for avoiding drones found in Mali

An al-Qaeda list of 22 tips on how to avoid drones, left behind by Islamic extremists as they fled northern Mali last month, has been found.

News • 22 Feb 13

French troops are targeting militants' vehicles and command posts

French forces seize key targets in Mali

French and Malian forces fighting Islamist rebels have taken control of the rebel bastion of Gao, the biggest military success so far in an offensive against al-Qaeda-allied insurgents occupying the country's north.

News • 28 Jan 13

Algeria says that 29 militants were killed during the siege

37 foreigners killed in Algeria hostage crisis

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has said that 37 foreign workers died in last week's hostage crisis.

News • 22 Jan 13

Over 81 confirmed dead after gas plant attack

At least 81 dead after Algeria gas plant siege

The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara has climbed to at least 81 as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies.

News • 21 Jan 13

French soldiers sit aboard a Malian military armed car

Hollande pledges further support for Mali

France has pledged to keep troops in Mali until stability returned to the West African country, raising the spectre of a long campaign against al Qaeda-linked rebels who held their ground despite a fifth day of air strikes.

News • 15 Jan 13

Jordan has regularly been targeted by Al-Qaeda due to its relationship with the US

Jordan claims to have foiled Al-Qaeda bomb plot

Jordan has foiled a major plot by an Al-Qaeda linked cell, which aimed to destabilise the key US ally's security by bombing shopping centres and assassinating Western diplomats, state television has said.

News • 21 Oct 12

At least a dozen other Yemeni soldiers were injured during the attack

16 Yemeni soldiers killed in al-Qaeda attack

Al-Qaeda killed 16 soldiers in an attack on an army base in south Yemen, medical and military sources said, in a further show of strength by Islamist militants despite a US campaign of drone strikes to neutralise them.

News • 19 Oct 12

Al-Qaeda chief urges ousting of Syria's Assad

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on all Muslims to back the rebels in Syria, according to an audio recording posted on the internet.

News • 13 Sep 12

Yemen defence minister survives car bomb attack

A car bomb targeting Yemen's defence minister exploded outside the prime minister's office in Sanaa, killing at least five bodyguards.

News • 11 Sep 12

17 killed in Kenyan bomb attacks

At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded in grenade attacks at two churches in Garissa.

News • 01 Jul 12

Witnesses said Ansar Dine fighters have destroyed holy sites in Timbuktu

Mali insurgents destroy holy Timbuktu sites

Armed fighters of Mali's al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine Islamist group have destroyed mausoleums in the ancient trading city of Timbuktu.

News • 30 Jun 12