Tag: Qaeda
I was not privy to the US’ OBL operation
Ever since the Memo scandal our media mongers whose previous almost daily predictions over the past four years about the demise of the democratic...
Yemen troops, tribesmen kill 14 Qaeda suspects
Yemeni soldiers and tribesmen killed 14 Al-Qaeda suspects, including two North Africans and a Saudi, in the country’s restive south, local officials and tribal...
Five Qaeda suspects killed in south Yemen
Five Al-Qaeda suspects, among them an Indonesian, were killed in artillery shelling on their strongholds in Yemen's south, a government official said Tuesday.
"Two Al-Qaeda...
Al Qaeda wants to abduct Bilawal: Malik
Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday revealed that the premier intelligence agency of the country had reports that al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan...
Obama never linked ISI to Qaeda, says White House
The White House said in a briefing on Sunday that US President Barack Obama had never said some elements in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)...
‘Qaeda’ gunmen kill four Yemen soldiers
Gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda on Monday killed four soldiers in southern Yemen, a medic said, a day after at least 25 troops died in...
Al Qaeda Pakistan chief of operations killed, says US
Al Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan Abu Hafs al-Shahri has been killed, a senior US official said Thursday, revealing the latest blow to...
Yemen Qaeda affiliate most dangerous: CIA chief
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, has emerged as the “most dangerous” affiliate of the extremist group as the terrorism threat...
US heartened by Pakistan capture of Qaeda figure: Panetta
Pakistan’s capture of a senior al Qaeda figure is an “encouraging” sign that Islamabad is ready to bolster its cooperation with US counter-terrorism efforts,...
Senior al Qaeda leader arrested in Quetta
Pakistan on Monday said it had arrested senior al Qaeda leader and two other operatives of the global terrorist organisation from the outskirts of...
‘Bin Laden suspected al Qaeda coup plot’
Osama bin Laden suspected a coup plot against him when he ordered one of his proteges to be arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks,...
Al Qaeda number two killed in Pakistan
The United States said on Saturday that al Qaeda’s number two leader Atiyah abd al-Rahman had been killed in Pakistan, in what it said...
7 Yemeni soldiers ‘killed by suspected Qaeda forces’
Seven Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others wounded on Saturday in clashes with suspected Al-Qaeda forces in the southern province of Abyan, a...
Al Qaeda firmly rooted in Pakistan tribal fiefdom
With his well-groomed hair, shaven face and delicate hint of aftershave, Al Qaeda logistician Abu Salman has operated for years in the country’s badlands...
6 suspected Qaeda gunmen killed in Yemen
Six suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen have been killed in the south Yemen province of Abyan in an air raid by government forces, a local official...
Qaeda announces 100-attack Iraq campaign
Al Qaeda’s front group in Iraq said it has launched a campaign of 100 attacks across the country since the middle of August, in...
Iraq’s Qaeda asks ex-fighters to return, threatens attacks
Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate has asked Sunni militia members who turned against the insurgency and joined forces with the U.S. military and the Shi'ite-led...
