Al Qaeda
# al-qaeda - Friday 17 May, 2013
Turkey and US demand Assad stand down
The US President and Turkish Prime Minister met in Washington to discuss Syria’s ongoing, bloody conflict.
# al-qaeda - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
A massive and unprecedented intrusion: AP slams US government’s snooping
The US Justice Department obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors working for the Associated Press, the news agency has confirmed.
# al-qaeda - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Boston bombing highlights problems tracking ‘lone wolves’
Counter-terrorism experts have warned that attempting to thwart attacks by radicals working in isolation is a practically impossible task.
# al-qaeda - Monday 22 April, 2013
Canadian police forces thwart “Al-Qaeda supported” attack
It is understood that the arrests came after a a year-long investigation and involved a terrorist attack against a VIA passenger train that runs between Toronto and New York.
# al-qaeda - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Suicide bomber kills at least 20 in Iraq election tent attack
The bomber detonated his explosives as a Sunni candidate for the provincial council was hosting lunch for supporters in a large hospitality tent pitched next to his house.
# al-qaeda - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Bin Laden son-in-law captured, faces terror charges in New York
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is expected to be in US federal court in New York tomorrow in an initial hearing to face terror charges.
# al-qaeda - Sunday 3 March, 2013
Chadian army claims mastermind of Algerian gas plant attack killed in Mali
The army said he was killed during an operation that also “neutralised” at least 15 Islamist rebels.
# al-qaeda - Friday 1 March, 2013
Al-Qaeda’s top leader in Mali killed in fighting
The Al-Qaeda leader was suspected of being behind a series of brutal kidnappings in several countries, including those of a British national and a French aid worker.
# al-qaeda - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
US senator says 4,700 killed in drone strikes: report
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of drone use, has openly cited a number that exceeds some independent estimates of the total death toll.
# al-qaeda - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Seven French holidaymakers kidnapped in Cameroon
A family of French citizens, including four children, have been kidnapped by a Nigerian terrorist group suspected to be Boko Haram.
# al-qaeda - Monday 18 February, 2013
Danish brothers charged with plotting terror attack
Two brothers with links to Somalia’s Islamist Shebab rebels have been formally charged over suspicions of plotting a terror attack.
# al-qaeda - Saturday 26 January, 2013
Mali conflict: Islamists offer hostage talks amid French offensive
The surprise move comes on the 16th day of a military operation led by France to stop Islamist groups pushing south towards the capital Bamako.
# al-qaeda - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
Britain to use chairmanship of G8 to focus on terror threat
British Prime Minister David Cameron said that he would put the topic to the “top of the agenda where it belongs.”
# al-qaeda - Saturday 19 January, 2013
Algeria: 18 killed – including seven hostages – in ‘final assault’
Algerian security forces are now thought to be sweeping the gas plant to remove landmines planted around it.
Fate of foreign hostages in Algeria hangs in balance
It is believed that there are still around 10 hostages, but more workers remain unaccounted for, including 10 Japanese and eight Norwegians.
# al-qaeda - Monday 14 January, 2013
Mali conflict: Islamists vow to strike ‘at heart’ of France
The French government believes that its intervetion in the west African country will be over in a matter of weeks but officials have said that Islamist militants are better trained and armed than expected.
# al-qaeda - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
Belgian militant reportedly killed in Pakistan
The Al-Qaeda recruiter allegedly mentored Mohamed Merah – a 24-year-old extremist who shot dead seven people in France earlier this year.
# al-qaeda - Monday 15 October, 2012
Mauritanian troops accidentally shoot their president
Mauritanian President was shot and wounded when soldiers “accidentally” fired on his convoy near his country’s capital Nouakchott.
# al-qaeda - Friday 12 October, 2012
Victims remembered on 10th anniversary of Bali bombings
Survivors and loved-ones paid tribute to the 202 victims of the nightclub bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali, carried out by religious extremists in 2002.
# al-qaeda - Sunday 7 October, 2012
Abu Hamza appears in US court with prosthetics removed
The radical cleric was one of five terror defendants rounded up in Britain and extradited to the U.S.
# al-qaeda - Sunday 30 September, 2012
Guantanamo’s youngest detainee transferred to Canada
Canadian Omar Khadr, who was also the last westerner held at Guantanamo, was just 16 when he was detained in 2002.
# al-qaeda - Friday 21 September, 2012
After 3 years, the last US surge troops leave Afghanistan
President Barack Obama had ordered the surge in 2009 in a bid to deal with increasing tensions in Afghanistan.
# al-qaeda - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Filmmaker questioned as protests continue over anti-Islamic movie
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda has called for more attacks on US embassies.
# al-qaeda - Monday 10 September, 2012
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command in Yemen killed says country’s military
Saeed al-Shehri, the second man in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in an operation by armed Yemeni forces according to the country’s defence ministry.
# al-qaeda - Sunday 9 September, 2012
Wave of attacks kill at least 39 in Iraq
Soldiers at an army post and police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs were killed in a series of deadly attacks.
# al-qaeda - Saturday 8 September, 2012
Suicide bombing kills at least 6 in central Kabul
Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber has blown himself up near Nato headquarters in Kabul, killing at least 6 people.
# al-qaeda - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
US will intervene in Syrian crisis – but only if Assad uses chemical weapons
President Obama says the issue of Syrian WMDs is two-fold, raising fears that chemical or biological weapons may fall into the hands of anti-Israeli extremists.
# al-qaeda - Friday 3 August, 2012
Hillary Clinton hopes for improved drones to find Kony
The US Secretary General was also focused on preserving a fragile peace between Sudan and South Sudan on her two day agenda of talks in East Africa.
# al-qaeda - Thursday 2 August, 2012
Spain arrests three suspected Al Qaeda members
Police have denied reports the men had poison and explosives in their possession.
# al-qaeda - Monday 23 July, 2012
Bombings and shootings kill 82 in Iraq
The attacks in Baghdad and towns close to the capital came a day after the leader of Al Qaeda in the country said that it was returning to areas from which it had retreated before US soldiers left last year.
# al-qaeda - Monday 16 July, 2012
Bradley Manning trial: Lawyers ask court to drop ‘break-in’ charge
Attorneys at Manning’s military pre-trial hearings say the US Army Private had permission to read the ‘Cablegate’ files.
# al-qaeda - Sunday 10 June, 2012
Al-Qaeda affiliate offers 10 camels as bounty on Obama
The Somalian group also offered up 10 hens and 10 roosters for Hillary Clinton.
# al-qaeda - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
Drone strike kills Al Qaeda second in command
Abu Yahya al-Libi is reported to have been charged with the day-to-day operations of the terrorist organisation in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
# al-qaeda - Thursday 31 May, 2012
Azerbaijan says it foiled a terrorist plot at the Eurovision
Forty people were arrested yesterday as part of investigations by Azerbaijan security services.
# al-qaeda - Friday 25 May, 2012
Francois Hollande makes surprise trip to Afghanistan over troop pullout
The French president told troops in Afghanistan that the French exit from Afghanistan is imminent.
# al-qaeda - Monday 21 May, 2012
Suicide bombing kills nearly 100 soldiers in Yemen
The bombing, believed to be a failed assassination attempt against the Minister of Defence, killed 96 soldiers at a military parade rehearsal.
# al-qaeda - Wednesday 16 May, 2012
Yemen: 19 killed in clashes with al-Qaeda fighters
The fighting between national troops and al-Qaeda was part of an intensified government campaign against the terrorist group’s strongholds in southern Yemen.
# al-qaeda - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
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‘Underwear bomber’ was a double agent
The spy had been working with the Saudi intelligence agency in Yemen and handed the bomb to authorities instead of sneaking it onto a plane.
# al-qaeda - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
‘Undetectable’ underwear bomb plot thwarted says CIA
The device was an upgrade of the Christmas 2009 underwear bomb plot but the would-be bomber had not yet picked a target or bought an airline ticket.
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