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US-led coalition says it targeted al-Qaeda in northwest Syria
The US-led coalition said Monday its jets carried out strikes in northwest Syria a day earlier that a monitor reported had killed eight extremists, ... World News -
Qatari financier in the spotlight following report on UN fund freeze breach
A Qatari financier, Khalifa al-Subaiy, who the US says supplied financial support to senior al-Qaeda leaders, is in the spotlight following a Wall ... Gulf -
Spain busts gang that helped finance al-Qaeda in Syria
Spanish police on Tuesday detained 10 nationals of Syrian origin accused of financing “al-Qaeda terrorist militia” in Syria, the interior ... World News -
Rocket fire kills 12 civilians in regime-held village in Syria: State media
Rocket fire has killed 12 civilians in a regime-held village in northwestern Syria, state news agency SANA has said blaming former Al-Qaeda affiliate ... Middle East -
Yemen’s government forces arrest key al-Qaeda leader
Forces loyal to the Yemeni legitimate government backed by the Arab coalition say they have captured a key al-Qaeda leader in the southwestern ... Gulf -
US air strike kills 13 ISIS terrorists in Somalia
A US air strike killed 13 ISIS terrorists in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, the US military said, days after another ... North Africa -
Six civilians killed in Yemen in suspected al-Qaeda bombing
At least six civilians, including children, were killed in Yemen on Friday when a roadside bomb believed to be planted by al-Qaeda went off in the ... Gulf -
Tunisia: Soldier killed in mine blast in extremist stronghold
A Tunisian soldier has been killed and three others were wounded in a mine blast in the restive Kasserine region, the defense ministry said Saturday, ... North Africa -
Pakistan: Three security personnel killed in explosion near Afghan border
A Pakistani security official says a bomb blast near the Afghan border has killed three security personnel. Local administration official Rehmat Khan ... World News -
Militant attacks kill 17 Syria pro-regime fighters, says Monitor
Attacks by two extremist groups killed at least 17 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early on Saturday, a war ... Middle East -
Four killed in Mogadishu car bomb
Four people were killed and five injured when a car loaded with explosives detonated on a busy road in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said ... Middle East -
Pompeo says Iran tied to al-Qaeda, declines to say if war legal
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused Iran of ties to al-Qaeda and declined to say whether the Trump administration had the legal ... World News -
Egypt refers 28 to court on charges of joining ISIS, al-Qaeda
Egyptian prosecutors have referred 28 terror suspects, in two separate cases, to court on charges of joining local affiliates of ISIS and al-Qaeda. ... Middle East -
US-Taliban peace deal could be a victory for extremists
The US-Taliban peace talks held on Tuesday in Doha ended inconclusively, but are set to resume at an undecided later date in March. For the US, a ... World -
Afghan airstrikes kill 31 militants among them al-Qaeda fighters
Thirty-one militants, many of them believed to have been al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in airstrikes in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials ... World News -
US offers $1 million reward to find Bin Laden son
The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging ... Middle East -
US military denies taking part in raid on al-Qaeda site in Libya
The US military denied on Thursday taking part in a raid on an al-Qaeda site in the Libyan city of Ubari, contradicting a statement by a Libyan ... North Africa -
US carries out air strike against al-Qaeda in Libya
The US carried out an air strike against al-Qaeda terrorist group in southern Libya on Wednesday night, Tripoli’s UN-backed Government of ... North Africa -
Libyan authorities reportedly arrest suspected al-Qaeda leader
Libyan authorities have arrested a suspected al-Qaeda leader who fled from the eastern city of Derna, a source in the attorney general’s office ... North Africa -
Syrian suicide attack hits Idlib council linked to former Nusra Front
A suicide bomb attack targeted the headquarters of a council that governs the insurgent-held Idlib region of northwestern Syria on Tuesday, killing a ... Middle East -
Kenyan police say attack on Chinese facilities is repelled
Kenyan police say gunmen opened fire on Chinese construction facilities in an eastern area, days after extremists claimed responsibility for a deadly ... World News -
Al-Qaeda-linked extremists kill 10 UN peacekeepers in Mali
Al-Qaeda-linked extremists carried out one of the deadliest attacks on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in months, killing 10 peacekeepers and ... World News -
Ethiopia readies ‘massive offensive’ on al-Shabaab in Somalia
The Ethiopian National Defense Force is confirming an ambush by al-Shabaab extremists on an Ethiopian peacekeeping convoy in neighboring Somalia and ... World News -
Tunisia sentences 41 to death over 2014 attack on army
A Tunisian court has sentenced 41 extremists to death over an attack that killed 15 soldiers on the border with Algeria in 2014, prosecutors said ... North Africa -
Al-Qaeda Mufti Abu Hafs sheds light on Iran, Qatar influence on extremist groups
Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, known as “Abu Hafs al-Mauritani,” the former Mufti of al-Qaeda, revealed in an interview with Al Arabiya English ... Features -
US: Key plotter in USS Cole al-Qaeda attack may have been killed in Yemen
One of the main plotters behind the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole that left 17 American servicemen dead may have been killed in Yemen, the American ... Gulf -
UK says al-Qaeda is resurgent, plans to target airports and airliners
Al-Qaeda is resurgent and is planning new terrorist activity targeting airports and airlines, the UK’s security minister ben Wallace said on ... World News -
Muslim Brotherhood more dangerous to Germany than ISIS, Qaeda, says report
Citing German Intelligence and security sources, a local news outlet said an official report has concluded that German security authorities consider ... World News -
No clear end in sight for war in Afghanistan
As the deployment in Afghanistan enters its seventeenth year it has become the longest running war in US history. It is therefore worth reminding ... Middle East -
US strike kills 11 suspected Qaeda militants in Libya, says sources
The US military said on Friday it killed 11 suspected al Qaeda militants in an air strike in Libya’s southwestern desert.US Africa Command ... North Africa