called IS) has strengthened its grip in its Libyan stronghold Sirte as new recruits and foreign fighters join its ranks while world attention focuses on Iraq and Syria.
Experts and sources in Libya say Sirte has become a new focal point for the (...)
Zawahiri has taken command of Al-Qaeda after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, a website said on Thursday. The move was widely expected following his long years as second-in-command.
Bin Laden's lieutenant and the brains behind much of Al-Qaeda's (...)
rich delta say they will not bomb pipelines, despite a military crackdown on militant camps.
A Niger Delta Liberation Force spokesman said in a Friday statement that they would “not let President Goodluck down by engaging in pipeline bombing” after (...)
list group Akbayan asked the Supreme Court Thursday to overturn the Commission on Elections' ruling that allowed former Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo to sit as a party-list representative in the 15th Congress.
In an urgent motion, (...)
“India is failing to curb a growing Maoist insurgency and I would like to say frankly that we have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing this menace,”
– Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday, while also warning (...)
led coalition said
might be a rehearsal for a future attempt to overrun the
outpost.
«Several» suspected Taliban were killed Saturday evening
in the latest attack on Firebase Anaconda, in addition to
four that were killed in an earlier attack (...)
controlled portion of Kashmir from Pakistan on
Tuesday, the army said.
An army patrol spotted the four in the Rampur sector, near the so-called line of control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, said army spokesman Lt. Col. A. K. (...)
Hotari, 25, who was born in Kuwait, was
sentenced to eight years in jail with hard labor,Mohammed Shehada, 25, a Jordanian, was sentenced to three years in
jail with hard labor.
The court initially on Wednesday sentenced al-Hotari, who also was (...)
Pakistani security
forces were caught in the firing line in clashes between
foreign militants and tribesmen in northwestern Pakistan,
leaving four soldiers dead, AP quoted officials as saying Sunday.
The fighting between suspected Uzbek (...)
rich
LAGOS, Nigeria, Aug 4, SPA-- Militants in Nigeria took a German
oil industry worker hostage on Thursday in the country's
troubled oil-rich delta region, a police spokeswoman said, AP reported.
The German man was snatched from his jeep as (...)
three Americans, a Briton, two Egyptians, two Thais and one Filipino -- from a barge operated by U.S. services company Willbros during a string of attacks on Saturday which crippled Shell's
380,000-barrel-a-day Forcados loading platform and two (...)
Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, said they planned the attack together in response to Israel's killing of five Palestinian gunmen three days ago.
The groups sent the bomber, 25-year-old Ayman (...)
related violence since March, including 30 U.S. troops, hundreds of guerrillas, and dozens of members of the Afghan security forces.
Afghan officials have reported at least 50 other deaths, more than half of them of guerrillas, in Taliban-related (...)
led invasion in March 2003, at least 1,647 American military personnel have lost their lives in Iraq.
An Internet posting this week apparently from the al Qaeda organisation in Iraq said Zarqawi, for whom Washington is offering a $25 million (...)
Islam.
"The raids serve the purpose of obtaining evidence about the existence, structure and working methods of the group, as well as indications of concrete terrorist activities," it said.
Ansar al-Islam is a militant group originating in (...)
despite denials -- that Paris favours the rebels in the north.
"The French can't take him away. We will stay here for two months if that's what it takes," said Gbayoro Gbegbe, 19, looking tired after spending the night in the street.
Ivorian (...)