Islamist militia in rebel-held northern Mali are recruiting children in a bid to boost their forces, a local elected official and a journalist in the region said.

Both Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the

At least 24 people were killed on Monday as Al-Qaeda militants raided an army barracks, the latest in a spate of attacks by the terror network which has boosted its presence across Yemen's lawless sou

The United States has formally sent to trial Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged Pakistani mastermind of 9/11 terror attacks, along with four other suspected Al Qaeda militants involved in its planning. T

US law enforcement officials are investigating an image posted online that shows the city's Manhattan skyline at sunset with a warning in the foreground that terror outfit al Qaeda plans to return to

Al-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented outage for the extremist network's online forums, analysts said on Tuesday.

"All of them essentially went dow

Yemen's armed forces killed 38 suspected members of Al-Qaeda in two days of air raids and shelling of their hideouts in the country's south, a government official said on Tuesday.

"Thirty-eight membe

Al-Qaeda suspects killed seven policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in southeast Yemen on Sunday, a security official said, a day after clashes between the army and militants left 40 dead.

"A group

Al-Qaeda has returned to Afghanistan and is planning to use the war-torn nation as a base to launch another 9/11-style attack on Western countries, a senior official has claimed.

According to America

Terror outfit Al-Qaeda on Saturday claimed to have killed at least 30 Yemeni soldiers and seized a military site after a deadly gunbattle with government troops, Xinhua reported.

The clash occurred i

It was not Osama bin Laden who had come up with the 9/11 plot, a new book has claimed which also says that he had initially dismissed the plan.

When the strike was first proposed to him in 1996 the