Top Al Qaeda leaders still burrowing in Pakistan: US
Al-Qaeda's top leaders, including its new chief of Ayman al-Zawahri, continue to ‘burrow’ in Pakistan's tribal areas, President Barack Obama's top counter terrorism adviser said vowing to bring them t
Al-Qaeda names Farman Shinwari as its new chief in Pakistan
Al-Qaeda has named computer literate Farman Ali Shinwari, a resident of the restive Khyber tribal region and whose brothers have been associated with terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, as its new chie
Osama planned to change name of al-Qaeda: US official
Osama bin Laden, towards the last phase of his life, had considered to change the name of Al-Qaeda because of the bad image it developed over the years and with Muslims losing faith in the outfit, a t
Barack Obama to give rare interview in Situation Room on Osama ops anniversary
President Barack Obama has agreed to sit for an extraordinarily rare TV interview in the White House Situation Room to air on the first anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Osama planned for shoe bombers to follow up on 9/11
A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber a decade ago says Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the Amer
Pakistani bomb plotter eyed multiple targets in New York
The admitted Pakistani bomb-maker in a foiled 2009 plot against New York city's subways has revealed how he and an Al Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theatres
France deports extremist militants, imams amid crackdown
France said on Monday it was deporting five Islamic militants and Muslim preachers in the latest show of strength by President Nicolas Sarkozy as he clamps down on radical elements after seven people
In his final days, Osama wanted to kill Obama, attack US
Before his death, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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More than 100 Yemen troops killed in Al Qaeda assault
More than 100 Yemeni soldiers and at least 25 suspected Al Qaeda gunmen were killed in attacks on military positions in the country's restive south, medics and local officials said on Monday.
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Osama family members to leave Pakistan
Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Tuesday.
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