CHANGES in the climate have led to the heat wave in Europe, which continues to break records, the melting of large quantities of ice in Antarctica and Greenland and heavy rainfall and intense hurricanes around the world. These global events have (...)
The world is following with concern the repercussions of the situation in northern Syria, where more than three million Syrian citizens are at risk of being killed daily by the Russians, the Iranians and the Syrian regime. But no one is talking (...)
linked group Sunday freed 73 Yemeni soldiers it captured during a major assault in the south of the country last month, residents said, after mediation by religious scholars and tribal elders.
Residents of the southern town of Jaar, controlled by (...)
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a police station Wednesday as the Taliban intensified attacks against Pakistan's security forces after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
At least five policemen and a (...)
JEDDAH: Britain and Saudi Arabia are opposed to the Iranian nuclear program, Sir Tom Phillips, British Ambassador to the Kingdom, has said.
Iran, the ambassador said, is “not helping to solve the problems in the region”.
“There is considerable (...)
SANA'A: A deal to transfer power peacefully in Yemen could emerge shortly based on an offer by President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Abubakr Al-Qirbi told Reuters.
But Al Arabiya television later quoted (...)
Qaeda members were killed in clashes with the army in south Yemen, the Defense Ministry's news website said Saturday, bringing to 21 the death toll from the previous day's fighting.
Three Al-Qaeda militants were also wounded in Friday's clashes (...)
US Embassy attack
Yemen upholds death sentences
SANA'A, Yemen – A Yemeni appeals court upheld on Sunday the death sentences against four Al-Qaeda militants in deadly attacks that included the assault on the US Embassy and the killing of two (...)
terrorism forces Tuesday killed a man believed to be one of the masterminds behind the 2002 Bali bombings, Dulmatin, during a raid on the outskirts of Jakarta, police said.
Gunfire was heard as police raided a two-storey shophouse at around 11:00 (...)
Qaeda's Sahara wing has raised its profile with hostage-takings and cocaine smuggling, threatening already weak West African states with crippling criminality but not large-scale terror attacks.
Revenues from ransoms and involvement in the drugs (...)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will push Yemen to make peace with a rising Shiite insurgency in order to focus on the threat posed by Al-Qaeda militants in the country, an American official said Wednesday at the start of a global summit on (...)
Five former Taliban officials have been removed from a UN sanctions list ahead of Thursday's key international conference in London that is expected to focus on a government plan to persuade militants to switch sides.
As part of reconciliation (...)
Turkish police rounded up Friday 120 people suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda in simultaneous pre-dawn raids in 16 provinces, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
It was not clear if Friday's detentions would amount to a major blow to (...)
Qaeda is assuming awesome dimensions. From Afghanistan, the war first spread to the tribal regions of Pakistan, before returning more recently to Yemen and Somalia, with further forays deep into the wastes of sub-Saharan Africa.
These territories, (...)
Saudi members of the press were given a tour of arms caches discovered on Tuesday evening in the Al-Khala Valley which were abandoned by infiltrators as they fled from the Saudi military.
The area, which lies approximately 30km from the border with (...)
Police arrested seven members of an Al-Qaeda-linked group and seized suicide vests, explosives and heroin during a raid in Pakistan's southern commercial center that thwarted planned terrorist attacks, officials said Monday.
The raid on a Karachi (...)
A suicide car bomb devastated a Shiite mosque in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, one of a series of attacks Friday that killed at least 38 Shiite pilgrims and worshippers, police and medical officials said.
Police said a further 140 people were (...)
A suicide bomber struck a crowded cafeteria inside an Iraqi army base west of Baghdad at lunchtime on Thursday, killing 16 soldiers and wounding another 60, police said.
An eyewitness said the bomber was wearing a military uniform when he detonated (...)
A Taleban militant leader rejected on Monday an offer from Afghan President Hamid Karzai of safe passage for insurgent leaders who wanted to talk peace.
Karzai, back from a trip to Britain and the United States, said on Sunday he would guarantee (...)
TV shows 4 recalling online route to terror Saudi Gazette report RIYADH – Four former militant supporters confessed on Saudi state television on Tuesday night how they organized the Internet operations of Al-Qaeda's campaign against the Saudi (...)
linked militants have returned to their towns once the Americans have withdrawn.
U.S. commanders hope local troops can now hold their own as part of strategy to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year.
After unconfirmed reports from local people (...)
Zarqawi.
The military said 22 U.S. and five Iraqi combatants had been killed and 170 U.S. troops wounded in the battle for Falluja.
Civilians still in the city stay indoors, scared by the noise of battle, an Iraqi journalist who left on Friday (...)
