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  US To Press Pak To Squeeze Haqqani Network

  World | April 18, 2012 9:34 IST

  Washington/Islamabad, Apr 17: The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to “squeeze” the al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest brazen attacks in Kabul.Declaring

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  Osama Bin Laden Had 4 Children, 5 Houses In Pakistan, Says Wife Amal

  World | March 30, 2012 17:40 IST

  Islamabad, Mar 30: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden  spent nine years on the run in Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, during which time he moved among five safe houses and fathered four children,

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  Four Admit To Plotting Mumbai-Style Attacks In London

  World | February 01, 2012 22:18 IST

  London, Feb 1: Four al-Qaeda inspired Britons today pleaded guilty to plotting a Mumbai-style attack on the London Stock Exchange, the American embassy and other targets during the run up to Christmas in 2010.Mohammed Chowdhury,

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  US Will Step Up Efforts To Defeat Al-Qaeda

  World | January 21, 2012 7:49 IST

  Washington, Jan 21: The United States would continue to focus on its efforts in Afghanistan with regard to the war against terrorism and defeating al Qaeda, Taliban and other extremist organisations.“The President laid out an

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  Drone Strike Kills Top Al Qaeda Operative In Pakistan, US Says

  World | January 20, 2012 20:23 IST

  Washington, Jan 20: A Pakistani top al Qaeda operations planner, who was working a plot to attack Western targets, has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan's restive tribal area last week, a

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  Illyas Kashmiri Tasked Headley To Synchronise Attacks, Says NIA

  India | December 25, 2011 16:15 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 25: American-born terrorist David Headley's return after the Mumbai terror strikes of 2008 was to give final touches to synchronised terror strikes on Jewish houses located in five cities, including the national

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  Osama Was Not At Helm Of Al Qaeda Before Raid

  World | December 08, 2011 13:00 IST

  Washington, Dec 8: Documents found in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed in May show the al Qaeda leader no longer had any role in operations, a US expert who reviewed the evidence said

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  NY Plot : FBI Believes Accused Not A Serious Threat

  World | November 22, 2011 17:52 IST

  New York, Nov 22: The FBI and the NYPD seems at be at odds with each other as one claimed that the arrest of “al-Qaeda sympathiser” prevented attacks in the city while the other doubted

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  Al-Qaeda Sympathiser Arrested In New York For Plotting Attacks

  World | November 21, 2011 20:25 IST

  New York, Nov 21: A 27-year-old al-Qaeda sympathiser described as a “lone wolf” was arrested here on charges of plotting to attack police and soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with pipe bombs, US

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  Unrest Kills 22 Yemenis, Raid Takes Out Qaeda Chiefs

  World | October 16, 2011 7:24 IST

  Sanaa, Oct 15 : At least 22 people were killed today as Yemeni police opened fire on protesters and rival tribes clashed in Sanaa, while a suspected US air raid took out nine, including top

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  After Al Qaeda, Haqqanis Are Next Target For US

  World | October 15, 2011 13:57 IST

  Washington, Oct 15: While keeping the option of targeted raids on top Haqqani leaders on the table, US administration has opened a new more aggressive approach towards the Afghan insurgent group, it asserts, is supported

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  Qaeda Confirms Awlaqi Death In Yemen: SITE

  World | October 11, 2011 7:02 IST

  Dubai, Oct 11 : Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula today confirmed the death of US-Yemeni militant Anwar al-Awlaqi in a US air strike on September 30, the US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence said. “We confirm to

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  Obama Says, US Closer Than Ever To Defeating Al-Qaeda

  World | October 08, 2011 15:56 IST

  Washington, Oct 8: The US is now closer than ever to defeating al-Qaeda and its “murderous network”, President Barack Obama has declared, more than five months after the outfit's chief Osama bin Laden was eliminated

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  Death Of Anwar Awlaki Major Blow To Al-Qaeda : Obama

  World | September 30, 2011 22:54 IST

  Washington, Sept 30: The death Anwar al-Awlaki, leader of al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is not only a major blow to the terrorist outfit, but also marks another significant milestone in the effort to defeat

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  Al-Qaeda Maulana Anwar Al-Awlaki Dead, Says Yemen

  World | September 30, 2011 17:42 IST

  London, Sept 30: Yemeni forces say they have killed US-born radical Muslim cleric, who has been linked to 9/11 and Fort Hood shootings.Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born spiritual guru of al Qaeda's most active grouping, has

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  Al-Qaeda Rejects Iran's 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

  World | September 30, 2011 7:47 IST

  Cairo, Sept 30 : Al-Qaeda has sharply criticised Iran's president over his suggestions that the United States government was behind the September 11 attacks and not al-Qaida, dismissing the comments as “ridiculous.” During his trip

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  Pak Frees Osama Bin Laden's Bodyguard

  World | September 29, 2011 15:25 IST

  London, Sept 29: Pakistan has freed a senior al-Qaeda commander Amin al-Haq, who served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, The Daily Telegraph reported.Amin al-Haq, who escaped from Afghanistan with the al-Qaeda leader in

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  Man Arrested In US For Planning to Blow Up Pentagon

  World | September 29, 2011 9:06 IST

  Washington, Sept 29 : US authorities have arrested a suspected follower of al-Qaeda and charged him with plotting an attack on the Pentagon with an explosive laden remote controlled aircraft. Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old US

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  US May Force Al Qaeda To Flee Afghanistan, South Asia, Says CIA Chief

  World | September 15, 2011 15:28 IST

  Washington, Sept 15: America's new intelligence chief David Petraeus has predicted that al-Qaida leaders may flee Afghanistan and the entire south Asia as they were being pressed hard by American forces.In his first week on

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  US Will Never Wage War Against Islam Or Any Religion: Obama

  World | September 12, 2011 22:35 IST

  Washington, Sep 12 : Ten years after the US launched war against terrorism, in particular those of al Qaeda and the Taliban, President Barack Obama has said America was not and never would be at