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  Al-Qaeda men nabbed from Kochi, rented homes during lockdown

  India | September 19, 2020 12:59 IST

  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday busted an inter-state module of Al Qaeda operatives as it conducted raids in West Bengal and Kerala on Saturday morning. Three of the nine Qaeda men were arrested from Ernakulam district.

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  Indian-born US national deported by US for his alleged links with al-Qaeda

  India | May 21, 2020 23:10 IST

  A man hailing from Telangana, who was alleged by the US of being an al-Qaeda operative, has been deported to India after air travel between the two countries resumed partially, officials said on Thursday.

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  Al-Qaeda bomb maker turned MI6 undercover shares his experience working with Osama Bin Laden

  World | February 12, 2020 10:55 IST

  Al-Qaeda bomb-maker turned MI6 undercover agent, Aimen Dean, who has worked with the likes of Osama Bin Laden for four years before becoming a turncoat and serving the ace British intelligence agency has shared his experience. Speaking to Daily Star, Dean said that he taught the MI6 how to make kitchen bombs and other Al Qaeda tricks. 

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  How UP's Shanno became Al-Qaeda's Maulana Asim Umar

  World | October 10, 2019 13:15 IST

  According to family sources, who do not wish to be named, Sana-ul-Haq, known as Shanno in the family, did his graduation from the renowned Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom Deoband, but the seminary categorically denies having any student by that name.

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  'PM Modi will take care of it': Trump on Imran's Al Qaeda admission

  India | September 24, 2019 23:40 IST

  PM Modi will take care of it, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday on Pakistan PM Imran Khan's admission on ISI training Al Qaeda.

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  BIG confession by Imran Khan: Pak army and ISI had trained Al Qaeda

  World | September 24, 2019 7:17 IST

  Imran Khan also confessed the terrorist groups were trained to fight in Afghanistan and therefore there were always links with them because they had trained them.

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  Facebook auto-generating pages for Islamic State, al-Qaida

  World | September 18, 2019 17:16 IST

  In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al-Qaida before it’s reported.

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  Hamza bin Laden was very threatening to US: Donald Trump

  World | August 02, 2019 8:32 IST

  The US media on Wednesday, quoting unnamed officials, reported that Hamza bin Laden was killed during the first two years of the Trump administration. There has been no official confirmation of it from the United States.

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  26 killed in deadly terrorist attack in Somalia, Al Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility

  World | July 13, 2019 16:33 IST

  Jubbaland State president Ahmed Madobe said 10 foreigners from Kenya, Canada, the US and Tanzania were among those killed when an Al Shabab suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the popular Medina Hotel on Friday night, before attackers forced their way inside the building. 

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  Al Qaeda leader asks Kashmiri mujahideen to deal blows to Indian Army, releases video

  India | July 10, 2019 16:26 IST

  Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri has released a 14-minute video titled "Don't forget Kashmir" in which he asks 'mujahideen' in Kashmir to hit the Indian Army with "unrelenting blows".

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  Pak arrests regional head of international NGO for funding Al-Qaeda

  World | July 07, 2019 14:58 IST

  The NGO is accused of receiving a large amount of money in the name of charity and diverting them to Al-Qaeda terrorists. The department arrested him under the Anti-Terrorism Act as reported by Dawn. A senior CTD official stated that Ali has been diverting the funds collected in the name of charity to Al Qaeda.

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  Abdul Hameed Lelhari named head of al-Qaeda's Kashmir unit after Zakir Musa's death

  India | June 06, 2019 11:34 IST

  The Kashmir unit of the al-Qaeda is called the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

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  Musa eliminated: Clamp down in Kashmir

  India | May 24, 2019 14:07 IST

  After Burhan Wani's death, Zakir Musa threatened to behead Kashmiri separatist leaders of the Hurriyat Conference for calling Kashmir a political dispute instead of a religious struggle to establish an Islamic state.

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  UK minister warns against al-Qaeda attacks on airports, airliners

  World | December 23, 2018 20:13 IST

  The terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001 poses a growing threat that is keeping ministers “awake at night”, Ben Wallace told The Sunday Times.

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  Pakistan-based terror groups continue terror attacks in India: US Govt report

  World | September 20, 2018 7:44 IST

  The parts of India seriously impacted by terrorism in 2017 included Jammu and Kashmir, the northeast Indian states, and parts of central India in which Maoists remain active, the report said.

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  Govt bans new offshoots of Al-Qaeda, ISIS; both declared 'unlawful' for radicalising Indian youths

  India | June 21, 2018 17:36 IST

  The ISKP/ISIS Wilayat Khorasan is also promoting and encouraging terrorism in the Indian Sub-continent, according to the order.

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  Al-Qaeda warns Saudi Arabia over 'westernising projects'

  World | June 02, 2018 10:24 IST

  The AQAP group mainly based in Yemen released its news bulletin on Friday and blasted Saudi authorities  warning SA  against "westernising projects" masterminded by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.

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  Al Qaeda threatens attacks in Delhi, Mumbai for 'victory' in Kashmir

  India | December 27, 2017 19:50 IST

  In an interview with terror group’s mouthpiece, Usama, which was released on jihadi online networks, said that there could be no easy solution to the Kashmir issue which needs ‘blood and sweat’ of Muslims.

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  Indian engineer jailed in US for 27 years for funding al-Qaeda

  World | November 07, 2017 16:48 IST

  Yahya Farooq Mohammad pleaded guilty in July to charges of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to terrorists and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

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  ISIS seizes key Syrian town on Iraq border

  World | July 02, 2014 8:47 IST

  Damascus/Baghdad: The Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an Al Qaeda splinter group, Tuesday seized a strategic eastern Syrian town along the Iraqi border following days of intense clashes with rival jihadi group.The