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Congress Rethinking 9/11 Law

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in ...

Suspected Al Qaeda Members Arrested In Spain

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2013 | World

MADRID, April 23 (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested two men suspected of being linked to militant Islamist network al Qaeda, the government said in...

Yemen: U.S. Drone Strike Kills 2 Militants

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 04.21.2013 | World

SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni army officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed two suspected al-Qaida militants east of the capital, sparking a retaliatory ...

Syrian Extremists Pledge Allegiance To Al Qaeda

AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 04.11.2013 | World

BEIRUT — Tensions emerged Wednesday in a newly announced alliance between al-Qaida's franchise in Iraq and the most powerful Syrian rebel factio...

Al Qaeda's 'How To Avoid Drones' Tips Discovered In Mali

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 04.23.2013 | World

TIMBUKTU, Mali — One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their car...

American Jihadi In Somalia With Few Friends Left

Agence France Presse | Peter Martell | Posted 04.10.2013 | World

Once his reputation was of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small town Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islam...

Meet The Man Who Spied Inside Al Qaeda

AP | JAN M. OLSEN | Posted 01.13.2013 | World

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- After converting to Islam, a former member of a Danish motorcycle gang travels to Yemen to study the Quran and soon comes in co...

PHOTOS: The 'Gentle' Face Of Al-Qaeda

www.aljazeera.com | Posted 12.31.2012 | World

Images of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and their local offshoots and rivals in northern Mali....

Winning the War on Terror One Child at a Time

Matt Zeller | Posted 02.08.2013 | World
Matt Zeller

Literacy is not only the path to social mobility in Afghanistan and numerous other countries, it is also the only truly effective long term weapon we have against ilk like the Taliban and al Qaeda.

New Bin Laden Death Details Revealed

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 01.21.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vin...

'I'm Gonna Take Out A Whole Base'

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 01.20.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Three California men excited at the prospect of training in Afghanistan to become terrorists prepared, authorities say, by simulat...

Military Intervention in Mali: Military Logistics and Human Costs

Stefan Simanowitz | Posted 01.19.2013 | World
Stefan Simanowitz

Whilst equipment, intelligence, training and support from American, British and French special forces will add steel to the operation, it will nevertheless involve difficult desert fighting conditions against a well-armed enemy.

Syria: A Tragedy in Search of a Denouement

Amir Madani | Posted 11.08.2012 | World
Amir Madani

A bilateral negotiation on Iran's nuclear project is of fundamental importance to the quest for a solution for Syria; but such a negotiation would necessarily expand to encompass regional problems.

U.S. Officials Counter Reports About Benghazi Attacks

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 01.01.2013 | World

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon provided more details Friday of the military response to the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, as que...

Al Qaeda Urges Muslims To Kidnap Westerners

AP | Posted 10.27.2012 | World

CAIRO -- The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to kidnap Westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists, including a blind cleric serving a life s...

Minnesota Afterschool Program Targeted In Somali Terror Case

AP | AMY FORLITI | Posted 12.26.2012 | Home

MINNEAPOLIS — On any given weekday, in a nondescript storefront on the eastern edge of Minneapolis, dozens of young Somalis gather to get help w...

U.S. Drone Strike Kills 4 Al Qaeda Militants

Reuters | Posted 12.04.2012 | World

ADEN, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Four al Qaeda-linked militants were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike on Thursday in a remote part of the south of Yem...

Dozens Killed In Iraq Bombings

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 09.30.2012 | World

BAGHDAD -- A series of coordinated bombings shattered Shiite neighborhoods and struck at Iraqi security forces Sunday, killing at least 26 in attacks ...

Clinton Hints Al Qaeda Linked To Libya Consulate Attack

Posted 09.27.2012 | World

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted on Wednesday that the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi may have been linked to a...

Al Qaeda Threatens Attacks On U.S. Diplomats

AP | PATRICK QUINN and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 11.18.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Islamic militants sought Tuesday to capitalize on anger over an anti-Islam video that was produced in the United States, sa...

Al Qaeda Calls For More Attacks On U.S. Embassies

AP | Posted 09.15.2012 | World

By AYA BATRAWY and MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press CAIRO -- Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya in a W...

Botched Al Qaeda Assassination Attempt Misses Target, Kills 13

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ and SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 11.11.2012 | World

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen's defense minister narrowly escaped assassination Tuesday when a powerful car bomb ripped through his motorcade as it trave...

U.S. Drone Strike Kills Suspected Al Qaeda Militants

AP | AHMED AL HAJ | Posted 09.05.2012 | World

SANAA, Yemen -- A Yemeni military official says a U.S. drone strike has hit a house owned by a senior member of al-Qaida, killing five suspected milit...

Watch: Can We Ever Stop Torture?

Posted 10.20.2012 | Politics

President Obama closed the CIA's 'Black Sites' - secret prisons located abroad, where terror suspects were subjected to interrogation techniques that ...

Hang-Gliding, Poison-And-Explosives-Wielding Al Qaeda Operatives

AP | CIARAN GILES and ALAN CLENDENNING | Posted 10.02.2012 | World

MADRID — Police have arrested three suspected members of al-Qaida who amassed explosives and may have been plotting attacks in Spain or elsewher...