WASHINGTON: The Saudi military student who killed three Americans at a US naval base in December had longstanding ties to Al-Qaeda and planned an attack before he arrived in the United States,…
WASHINGTON D.C.: President Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday that the US had killed the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — days after the militant group claimed responsibility for a…
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has confirmed the death of Hamza Bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. “That’s my understanding,” Esper said in…
PARIS: France paid its emotional final respects Tuesday to two commandos killed during a raid to rescue four hostages in the Sahel region of Africa last week that has sparked a row over…
GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN: Thirty-one militants, many of them believed to have been Al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in airstrikes in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday. The strikes were carried out in Ghazni province late…
–PM says US should assess its own efficacy in Afghanistan instead of blaming Pakistan for its failures –Says Pakistan suffered 75,000 casualties in war on terror and lost over $123bn of which…
Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Asif Ghafoor has said that terrorism has been reduced due to the efforts of Pakistan Army and a lot has been sacrificed to…
LAHORE: Punjab Police have registered 106 terrorism financing cases involving proscribed organizations since 2015. 144 suspects have been arrested, 42 of whom were convicted by courts. These figures were revealed ahead of the reports…
BAMAKO: Al Qaeda’s franchise in the Sahara has claimed a multiple mortar attack on a village in northern Mali during Sunday’s election that disrupted voting, the SITE Intelligence Group said. During voting…
SIALKOT: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday arrested a terrorist of the banned al-Qaeda and recovered explosives from him. CTD sources said that an operation was conducted in Sialkot on an…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered the Pakistani government to get in touch with United States (US) authorities to seek details of recent reports regarding Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s death. The order was…
NEW YORK: Published 12 years ago, the best-selling and Pulitzer-prize winning book The Looming Tower remains a definitive account of US intelligence failures that littered the path to the September 11, 2001 attacks.…
Al Qaeda’s global network remains “remarkably resilient,” posing more of a threat in some regions than the Islamic State group, UN sanctions monitors said in a report seen by AFP on Thursday.…
YEMEN: A senior al Qaeda leader has called on Muslims “everywhere” to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s…
TUNIS: Tunisian security forces have killed a top aide of Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an official source told Reuters on Saturday. Tunisia has…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal has said that the FO has serious concerns over reports of Indian nationals joining the al Qaeda terrorist organisation. Faisal, speaking during the weekly…
NEW YORK CITY: US Department of Justice sentenced Christian Ganczarski against conspiracy to kill US nationals in his alleged involvement in 9/11 incident with al Qaeda for life imprisonment, officials reported on…
