NEW YORK - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday Jose Pimentel, a "lone wolf" al-Qaeda sympathizer, has been charged with plotting to bomb government targets. "Yesterday afternoon New York City police officers arrested a 27-year-old al-Qaeda sympathizer who was plotting to bomb police ...

At least seven al-Qaeda militants were killed and dozens of others were injured when warplanes of the Yemeni air forces carried out air raids against several hideouts of the group in the southern province of Abyan on Thursday, a local army officer told Xinhua. A number of al-Qaeda targets in ...

Al-Qaeda has named Ayman al-Zawahiri as its new chief following the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group has said in a statement issued in the name of the group's general command. "The general command of al-Qaeda announces, after consultations, the appointment of Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri as head ...

Hidden deep in the leaked Guantanamo files is a small but important trove of information, too historical and too technical to have commanded much space in newspapers keener on hyperventilating about 'nuclear Al Qaeda hellstorms this week. Each of the 700-plus files includes a short biography of its ...

LONDON (AFP/Reuters) - The head of Britains armed forces said Sunday that Al-Qaeda can never be completely beaten, but argued that outright victory is unnecessary as long as governments are able to contain the militants. First of all you have to ask: do we need to defeat it (militancy) in the sense ...

Al-Qaeda -- especially in countries such as Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen -- poses the gravest threat to the U.S. homeland security, the U.S. State Department claimed in its annual review of terrorism. Coming amid mounting concerns over the stability of Pakistan and efficacy of anti-terrorism ...

NEW YORK - A former Pakistani-American student extradited from Britain was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for helping an al-Qaeda operative supply raincoats, ponchos and waterproof socks to militants in Afghanistan. US District Court Judge Loretta Preska said the stiff sentence to Syed ...

NEW YORK A former Pakistani-American student extradited from Britain was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for helping an al-Qaeda operative supply raincoats, ponchos and waterproof socks to militants in Afghanistan. U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska said the stiff sentence to Syed ...

WASHINGTON (Agencies) US President Barack Obama Sunday warned that nuclear-armed terrorists would pose the single biggest threat to the United States, warning that Al-Qaeda would not hesitate to use a nuclear weapon against the US. Obama conjured up the horrific possibility of a nuclear detonation ...

Saudi Arabia claimed yesterday that it had foiled a major terrorist attack in the kingdom and had arrested 98 alleged members of al-Qaeda in raids in and around the capital, Riyadh. The Interior Ministry said that those arrested comprised 47 Saudi nationals and 51 foreigners. Most of the foreigners ...

The threat of a nuclear-armed Iran is "real" for the United States but Al-Qaeda poses an even greater danger, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday. "In terms of a country, obviously a nuclear-armed country like North Korea or Iran pose both a real or a potential threat," Clinton told ...

Declaring that the United States has strengthened partnerships with its anti-terrorism allies, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cited his adminitration's effective fight against al-Qaeda militants but said nothing specific about close ally Pakistan. Although Obama took note of partnerships in ...

The Taliban and al-Qaeda have denied involvement in the Peshawar bomb blast and said they do not explode bombs in bazaars and mosques. According to a statement of al-Qaeda, they are not involved in the killing of innocent people, a local English newspaper said. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan ...

THE Taliban are in much stronger financial shape than Al-Qaeda and rely on a wide range of criminal activities to pay for attacks on US and coalition forces in Afghanistan, a senior Treasury Department official said Monday, reports The Washington Post. David Cohen, the Departments Assistant ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a British parliamentary counter-terrorism committee called on Saturday for the government to clarity whether al-Qaeda operatives had tried to infiltrate the MI5 domestic security agency. Patrick Mercer, an opposition Conservative and chairman of parliaments ...

An American man charged with giving al-Qaeda information on the New York transit system and attacking a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has been a secret witness in the fight against terror both here and overseas, authorities have revealed. Court papers unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn on ...

Washington (Online) - Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said the al-Qaeda leadership resides in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan and the United States is determined to defeat them. The top priority, with respect to that strategy, is to ...

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said the al-Qaeda leadership resides in the federally-administered tribal areas (FATA) of Pakistan and the United States is determined to defeat them. "The top priority, with respect to that strategy, is to defeat al-Qaeda, whose ...

SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of Al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, an official said on Sunday, as cited on the defence ministry news website. The arrested man is named Hassan Hussein bin Alwan, a Saudi national, and he is the ...

NEW YORK - Dozens of fighters with Al-Qaeda, and a handful of the groups leaders, are moving to Somalia and Yemen from their principal haven in Pakistans tribal areas, The New York Times reported Friday. Citing American officials, the newspaper said communications being watched carefully at the ...

WASHINGTON - US drone attacks and Pakistans ongoing military offensive in Swat region have unsettled Al-Qaeda and undermined its relative invulnerability in its mountain sanctuaries, creating new opportunities to target the extremists, The Washington Post reported Monday, quoting US military and ...

Al-Qaeda-inspired extremists in Britain used the premises of a mosque in south London to recruit Muslim youths and encouraged them to travel to Pakistan for terrorist training, a media report claimed on Sunday. In the first insider account of how radicals are preying on vulnerable Muslim youths, an ...

DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda has warned Algerians against re-electing ferocious enemy President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Thursdays presidential vote, a US group which monitors Islamist websites said. The Algerian regime supports the West by seeking to destroy true Islam, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ...

Successful prosecutions of violent extremists have reduced the risk of an immediate attack in Britain, the head of the domestic security agency said in a series of interviews Wednesday. MI5 director-general Jonathan Evans told newspapers that terror trials had had a "chilling effect on the ...

Belgian police on Thursday arrested 14 suspected Al-Qaeda members, including a man believed to have been planning a suicide attack, officials announced, as EU leaders gathered in Brussels. "We don't know where the suicide attack was to take place," federal prosecutor Johan Delmulle told reporters. ...

A US secret document has declared ISI former chief, General Hameed Gul maintaining links with the Taliban and Al Qaeda network besides being involved in arranging financial assistance to them. The two-page unsigned document had already been provided to the government. Sources on the condition of ...

NEW YORK - While noting that al-Qaeda remains a major threat, the group's indiscriminate killings and inattention to the practical concerns of Muslims have hurt its support, a new study says. The study of the global future by US intelligence agencies suggests that the group "may decay sooner" than ...

LONDON (Agencies) - A new fleet of armoured limousines worth more than 2 million pounds is being deployed by Scotland Yard to protect Gordon Brown and key ministers from terrorist attack, according to The Sunday Times. At least 10 high-security BMWs are providing British Prime Minister Gordon, ...

Al-Qaeda-linked extremists are planning attacks intended to cause mass casualties in the UK, a top British intelligence report has warned. The report, which has been prepared by the intelligence branch of the British Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, warned that secret cells of al-Qaeda ...

An Australian Muslim convert was Thursday found not guilty of receiving money from the al-Qaeda terror network in a retrial after being convicted on the same charges two years ago. But the jury did find former taxi driver Jack Thomas -- dubbed "Jihad Jack" by the media after he became the ...