The killing of a French aid worker by the Al-Qaida was the last straw for France. The nation just declared war against the terrorist group. Officials said the humanitarian worker was abducted by the Al-Qaida in April in Niger in the Islamic Maghreb. They believe he was later taken to Mali. President Nicolas Sarkozy announced [...]
Ukraine announced that it will give up its weapons-grade uranium, boosting a 47-nation nuclear summit optimistically opened by US President Barack Obama last Monday. However, the White House counterterror chief warned that al-Qaida is vigorously pursuing ingredients and expertise for a bomb. Meanwhile, to discourage Iran’s efforts to come up with its own nuclear weapon, [...]
As US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev basked in the glow of their newly signed landmark treaty that commits their nations to slashing their nuclear arsenals, looming large over Thursday’s celebration in Prague was the challenge of stopping the threat of nuclear materials from disarmament falling into the hands of terror groups [...]
The young Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down an airliner as it was approaching Detroit on Dec. 25 had met with operatives of Al Qaeda and probably with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born Internet preacher, in Yemen before setting out on his journey, a senior Yemeni official said Thursday. But the official, the [...]
The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan last week was a Jordanian informant who lured intelligence officers into a meeting with a promise of new information about Al Qaeda’s top leadership, according to two former US government officials briefed on the incident. The sources said that the informant had been working undercover [...]
On Wednesday, Yemeni forces raided an Al Qaeda hideout and set off a gun battle as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas bombing attempt on a US airliner on approach to Detroit. The fighting took place in an Al Qaeda stronghold in western Yemen, haven for a [...]
Yemen has called for Western help against the “hundreds” of Al-Qaeda militants in the country amid reports on Wednesday that Washington is working with Sanaa to identify possible military targets. Identifying a shortage of helicopters as a particular problem, Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi said late on Tuesday, “We need more training, we have to [...]
After it emerged agencies knew that leaders of a branch of al-Qaida in Yemen were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack, Barack Obama has described US intelligence failings as “totally unacceptable.” Interrupting his vacation in Hawaii, the US president spoke bluntly about lapses that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a [...]
