Two Britons jailed for thirteen years for joining terrorist group in Syria
Two British men who travelled to Syria to join an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group have been jailed for nearly 13 years. Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf...
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Al-Mourabitoun is headed by infamous former al-Qaeda terrorist
A terrorist organisation with links to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack on a luxury hotel in the Malian capital Bamako. Al-Mourabitoun, a group...
UN recognizes the ties between Ansar al Sharia Libya and al Qaeda
The United Nations Security Council today added Ansar al Sharia in Libya to its al Qaeda sanctions list. “As a result of the new listings,”...
Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam sentenced to 37 years in prison
An Algerian man whose sentence for plotting to blow up the Los Angeles airport around the turn of the new millennium was thrown out for...
Spanish authorities arrest three al Qaeda terror suspects
Spanish authorities arrested three men suspected of plotting terrorist attacks this week. Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz held a press conference to confirm the...
Key Al-Qaeda figure reported killed in blast
Al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader has been killed by a missile fired by an American drone in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, NBC television news reported yesterday....
Terrorist with same name as al-Zawahiri’s deputy reported killed
A jihadist who shares the same name as Ayman al Zawahir’s deputy and Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law is said to have been killed, according to...
Rangzieb Ahmed was the highest ranking al-Qaeda operative in Britain
His arrest by Indian forces fighting with insurgents from Pakistan at the age of 18, changed his life, his brother has told The Daily Telegraph....
Islamist terrorists gain in Egyptian Sinai
The so-called Arab Spring, which ignited so much optimism in early 2011 as regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and most recently Syria faced violent...
Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi killed in North Waziristan
The fallout from the Jan. 29 airstrike is settling, and it appears a senior al Qaeda leader was killed in the attack in North Waziristan,...
Six terror suspects accused of London bomb plot
Six men planned "murderous suicide bombings" on public transport in London on 21 July 2005, a court has heard. The prosecution has told Woolwich Crown...