Al Qaida
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US drone kills two al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan
World | Apr 12, 2015, 08:24 PM ISTIslamabad: A spokesman for al-Qaida's new Indian branch says US drone strikes in Pakistan have killed two of its leaders.In an audio message released Sunday, Usama Mahmood identified the dead as deputy chief Ahmed Farooq
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More than 25,000 foreigners fight with terrorists: UN report
World | Apr 02, 2015, 06:55 AM ISTUNITED NATIONS:The number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from over 100 nations, according to a new
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Documents from Osama bin Laden raid read at US terror trial
World | Feb 26, 2015, 06:58 AM ISTNew York: Prosecutors on Wednesday presented declassified al-Qaida documents obtained after the 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound at the trial of a man charged in a British terrorism plot.The al-Qaida documents, read
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Shopping mall in the West on alert post al Shabab threats
World | Feb 23, 2015, 03:44 PM ISTJohannesburg: A video purported to be by Somalia's al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries.US authorities said there was “no credible” evidence suggesting
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Break cycles of conflict to counter terrorism: Obama
World | Feb 19, 2015, 11:26 PM ISTWashington: Describing conflict as “magnets” for violent extremism, US President Barack Obama today asked the international community and religious leaders to “break the cycles” of sectarian conflict to counter terrorism.“Nations need to break the cycles
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Al-Qaida militants seize Yemeni military base in south
World | Feb 12, 2015, 11:35 PM ISTSanaa, Yemen: Al-Qaida militants seized control of an important army base Thursday following clashes with soldiers that left at least eight people dead, military officials said.The officials say at least four soldiers and four militants
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Iraq officials: Multiple Baghdad bombings kill 37, wound 86
World | Feb 07, 2015, 07:24 PM ISTBaghdad: A series of bombings in the Iraqi capital today killed more than three dozen people hours before the city's longtime curfew was set to come to an end. The deadliest attack happened in the
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Al-Qaida in Yemen says senior cleric killed in drone strike
World | Feb 05, 2015, 11:03 PM ISTSanaa, Yemen: Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen announced on Thursday that one of its top clerics was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month in the country's south.The announcement came amid lingering uncertainty about the
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Islamic State group reaches for Afghanistan and Pakistan
World | Jan 17, 2015, 08:04 AM ISTCamp Shorabak, Afghanistan: Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to al-Qaida and Taliban militants and the focus of the longest war in U.S. history, face a new, emerging threat from the Islamic State group, officials have told
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Video of Paris gunman raises questions of affiliations
World | Jan 12, 2015, 08:14 AM ISTParis: Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida—a fiercely
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Paris sees one million people stage defiant march alongside world leaders to honor terror victims
World | Jan 11, 2015, 11:14 PM ISTParis: More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days of terrorist attacks.The leaders were heading
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Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula directed attack against Charlie Hebdo, claims member
World | Jan 10, 2015, 08:39 AM ISTCairo: Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honour" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a member of the group said on Friday.At least
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Britain's Spy chief warns of mass attacks on West by Syrian Al-Qaida
World | Jan 09, 2015, 03:39 PM ISTLondon: Head of Britain's MI5 security services, Andrew Parker, has warned on Thursday that Al-Qaida militants in Syria are plotting mass attacks in the West. He said it could possibly be towards transport systems or
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French police hunt gunmen who killed 12 at weekly newspaper
World | Jan 08, 2015, 06:48 AM ISTParis: Police hunted for three heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida in the military-style, methodical killing of 12 people Wednesday at the office of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.President Francois
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Charlie Hebdo shootings Europe's latest deadly terror attack
World | Jan 07, 2015, 09:41 PM ISTParis: A gun assault on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday was the deadliest terrorist attack in postwar France. Some other terror attacks in Western Europe:March 11, 2004: Bombs on rush-hour trains
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Officials say suicide bomber kills at least 15 in Yemen
World | Jan 07, 2015, 11:26 AM ISTSanaa, Yemen: A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed at least 15 people Wednesday morning near a police academy in the heart of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, security officials said.The blast wounded at
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On Christmas, Barack Obama marks end of Afghan combat
World | Dec 26, 2014, 11:39 AM ISTKaneohe Bay, Hawaii: President Barack Obama marked the end of more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan by paying tribute to America's military, telling troops on Christmas Day that their sacrifices have allowed for
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India to seek clarification from UN on reference to Hafiz Saeed
India | Dec 21, 2014, 06:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: Perturbed over calling 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed as as 'sahib' by a US Security Council panel, India will seek a clarification on it from the world body.It
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Pakistan vows to wipe out ideology of terrorists, India cites brazen violation of international sanctions
World | Dec 20, 2014, 11:20 AM ISTUnited Nations: The killing fields of Peshawar inspired anew an international resolve at the Security Council to combat terrorism by adopting on Friday a resolution urging nations to choke the flow of resources to the
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American hostage killed in Yemen: Sister
World | Dec 06, 2014, 04:44 PM ISTSanaa, Yemen: An American photojournalist held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, his sister said on Saturday.Lucy Somers told The Associated Press that she learned of her 33-year-old