US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has expressed concern about Pakistan's treatment of a doctor who helped the United States find Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.

The doctor, Shikal Afridi, has been

Al-Qaeda militants swept into the Yemeni town of Rada overnight and overran it within hours, marking a significant advance by the extremists towards the capital, officials said on Monday.

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Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq claimed a suicide car bomb against parliament in November which it said targeted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and MPs, in a statement published on Monday.

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A 29-year old Massachusetts resident has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda and plotting to kill US forces in Iraq.

Tarek Mehanna could end up spe

A statement from a group identifying itself as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Europeans in Mali in two separate incidents, the SITE monitoring gro

Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release.

In a video message posted on

Faced with the prospect of a massive defense cut in the wake of weak economic conditions in the country, American Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has asserted that the US will never surrender its statu

A Saudi court on Saturday jailed for 15 years a Saudi woman known as "Al-Qaeda lady" for being the first woman in the kingdom tried for involvement in violence by the jihadist network, state media sai

Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that shows its close ties with the Shebab rebels, a monitoring service said on Friday.

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Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that shows its close ties with the Shebab rebels, a monitoring service said on Friday.

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