Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apparently used an online magazine produced by al-Qaeda as their guide for how to make pressure cooker bombs that they set off at the finish line of last week’s Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 180 others. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, reportedly confessed to the FBI that he and his brother [...]
Two North African suspects thought to be linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have been arrested in Spain, according to police. An Algerian identified as Nou Mediouni was arrested in Zaragoza, northern Spain, the interior ministry said. The other suspect, a Moroccan named Hassan El Jaaouani, was arrested in Murcia in the south. [...]
Canadian authorities have arrested and charged two people with conspiring to carry out an “al-Qaeda inspired” attack on a passenger train in Toronto. At a news conference, the authorities said the suspects Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested in Montreal and Toronto on Monday. They allegedly planned to derail a VIA passenger [...]
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was described as a spokesman for Osama Bin Laden, has been arrested and will be tried in New York City, the US has confirmed. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was captured within the last week in Jordan, Congressman Peter King said on Thursday. He is Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law and played a role [...]
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a top Islamist militant, has been killed by Chadian soldiers in Mali, Chad’s armed forces have announced. His death was announced on Chadian state television but has not been confirmed by other sources. Mokhtar Belmokhtar is a former al-Qaeda leader said to have ordered January’s attack on an Algerian gas plant where at [...]
Senior al-Qaeda militant Abdelhamid Abou Zeid has been killed in northern Mali, Chadian President Idriss Deby has announced. Idriss Deby said Chadian forces killed Abdelhamid Abou Zeid during clashes in the remote region. Abdelhamid Abou Zeid is said to be second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is fighting foreign forces in Mali. The [...]
Mohammed Abu Jamal Ahmed, one of the suspects in the Benghazi attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, has been arrested, NBC News is reporting. Mohammed Abu Jamal Ahmed, who is accused of playing a role in September’s deadly attack against the U.S. Consulate in Libya, was detained in Cairo, according [...]
David Petraeus has told US Congress that the CIA believed almost immediately that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were behind the September 11th attacks in Benghazi, according to a leading Republican congressman. Representative Peter King of New York, a member of the House Intelligence Committee that David Petraeus briefed, said that the former general left a “different impression” [...]
The first Somali government and African Union (AU) troops are reported to have entered the strategic Somali port of Kismayo, witnesses and officials say. They have been battling the al-Shabab militia for control of the city. On Saturday, the al-Qaeda-aligned militants said they had withdrawn from Kismayo after an AU military assault. Kenyan and Somali [...]
Former US President George W. Bush was given a series of direct warnings throughout 2001 about the possibility of a terrorist attack by Al Qaeda – but failed to take them seriously, it was claimed today. On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it has been reported that the White House received multiple briefs [...]
Barack Obama asked Americans to mark the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by reflecting on how far the nation has come since that day. In his weekly radio and Internet address, President Barack Obama is asking people to remember the 9/11 victims and their families. He asks that they honor in their thoughts [...]
Three men suspected to be al-Qaeda members have been arrested in San Roque and Almuradiel, southern Spain. Explosive material was seized at an address in San Roque where a Turkish man was arrested. Two other men were held near Almuradiel. They are thought to have been planning an attack in Spain or elsewhere in Europe, [...]
French police say four people have been taken hostage in CIC bank in the city of Toulouse by a man claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda. The man fired a shot and demanded to speak to the elite police unit which shot Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah. Mohamed Merah, who claimed to have al-Qaeda training, killed seven [...]
Yemeni army commander General Salem Ali Qatan leading the fight against militants in the south of the country has been killed in a suicide attack, officials say. General Salem Ali Qatan was killed near his home in the port city of Aden, a medical official told AFP news agency. Yemen is battling militants linked to [...]
Abu Yahya al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda leader, was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan on Monday, a US official has confirmed. US officials said Abu Yahya al-Libi was the target of an attack which hit a volatile tribal area of Pakistan’s north-west, killing 15 suspected militants. There has been no confirmation of his death [...]
Adlene Hicheur, a French physicist at the prestigious CERN laboratory has been sentenced to five years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks. Adlene Hicheur was arrested in 2009 after police intercepted his emails to an alleged contact in al-Qaeda. The emails suggested Algerian-born Adlene Hicheur was willing to be part of an “active terrorist unit”, [...]
Osama Bin Laden’s documents seized during the raid on the Abbottabad compound were posted online by the research wing of the US military academy, West Point. The newly released papers reveal a frustrated Osama Bin Laden struggling to control an unruly network, the US military says. The papers show al-Qaeda leader was unhappy with affiliates’ [...]
The French police siege in Toulouse has ended with the death of Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people, the French interior minister has said. Police stormed the flat where Mohammed Merah was holed up at 10:30 a.m., after a siege that had lasted 32 hours. Mohamed Merah, 23, fired at officers and [...]
French police siege in Toulouse has ended with the death of Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people, the AFP news agency reports, although there is no official confirmation as yet. Police had entered the flat where Mohamed Merah was holed up after a siege that lasted more than a day. Police sources [...]
The siege of Mohamed Merah suspected of seven killings in Toulouse, southern France, is nearing its end, police sources say. Three loud explosions were heard from the apartment block in the city of Toulouse at about 10:30 a.m., with reports police are now inside the flat. The siege of the building where Mohamed Merah, 23, [...]
French police hunting an Algerian-origin gunman suspected of killing seven people in southern France in two separate attacks, including Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, have surrounded his flat in Toulouse. The 24-year-old Frenchman from Toulouse has said he belongs to al-Qaeda and acted to “avenge Palestinian children”. Police are now negotiating with the man, who is [...]
Pakistani authorities charged Osama Bin Laden’s three widows with illegally entering the country. According to Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, the women, reported to be two Saudis and a Yemeni, had been charged but did not say when the hearing took place. The three women and about 10 children were taken into custody last May [...]
At least 27 police officers have been killed in the western Iraqi city of Haditha after dozens of gunmen launched a pre-dawn raid on police targets. The attacks began on Monday at 02:00 a.m. with the kidnapping of two senior officers from their homes. They were later found shot dead. The gunmen, some wearing military [...]
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, was accused of US-bound flight on 25 December, 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. The bomb did not detonate fully causing serious burns. Later that day he admitted to the FBI that he was working for the Al Qaeda in Yemen. Last Wednesday Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab accepted [...]
Israel new air strikes came hours after gunmen armed with heavy weapons and explosives killed at least 7 people in southern Israel. Israel launches new air strikes on Gaza today after accusing militants in the Palestinian territory for deadly attacks near Eilat on Thursday before noon. According to the militants, 5 Palestinians were killed [...]
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