A wave of attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed at least 42 people on Thursday, in what Iraq's parliament speaker said was an attempt to derail an Arab League summit planned for the end of March.

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A Pakistani national, with alleged links to al Qaeda, has been charged in the US for planning terrorist attacks on the behest of the network, including a plot to assassinate former Pakistan preside

The head of Al Qaeda is calling on Muslims across the Arab world and beyond to support rebels in Syria who are seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, and says they cannot depend on the West for help.

Four radical Islamists admitted in court on Wednesday plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange as part of a campaign of al Qaeda-inspired attacks across the British capital in the run-up to Christma

The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signalled that the US-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in ope

Al-Qaeda continues to preach jihad or holy war through an Urdu monthly magazine that is delivered to homes in cities across Pakistan by post, according to a media report on Monday.

The 200-page maga

Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani militants have held a series of meetings aimed at containing what could soon be open warfare between the two most powerful Pakistani Taliban leaders, militan

Bomb attacks on churches during Christmas services, including one outside the capital, have killed at least 28 people in Nigeria amid spiralling violence claimed by an Islamist group.

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Several al-Qaeda militants escaped early on Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such spectacular jailbreak this year.

Terror outfit Al Qaeda is now training a group of snipers for a new wave of attacks on British and US troops in Afghanistan, a media report said on Friday.

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