Overnight air raids targeted al Qaeda posts in Yemen, killing at least 11 militants including several local leaders, witnesses said Tuesday. Al Qaeda fighters have capitalised on months of political unrest to take over areas of the country's south.
Somalia is hardly an attractive destination, but a former US soldier has just joined the ranks of foreigners trying to join the al Shabaab Islamist group. Why is Somalia gathering so many of the world’s wannabe jihadists?
New York police swooped to arrest a 27-year-old "al Qaeda sympathizer" who was planning to bomb post offices, police and U.S. troops returning home, the city's mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Sunday.
Kenyan and Somali troops killed nine members of the militant Islamist al-Shabaab group, Kenya's military spokesman said Sunday. Al-Shabaab have been linked to a string of violent attacks and kidnappings in Kenya.
Kenyan jets bombed the Somali town of Jilib on Sunday, killing 12 people in the latest offensive against Somalia-based al Shabaab militants following a series of attacks and kidnappings in Kenya that Nairobi has blamed on the group.
The British Government announced on Tuesday that it had frozen the assets of the five men who are alleged to have plotted the Iranian assassination of Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US.
Christophe Robeet meets Gilles de Kerchove, the EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator. He has the daunting task of coordinating the anti-terrorism policies of the 27 EU member states and ensuring that the EU plays an active role in the fight against terrorism, be it home-grown or originating abroad.
At least eight people were killed Monday when a car bomb targeted Aslam Khan, a senior policeman in charge of counter-terrorism in Pakistan's financial capital. Unhurt in the attack, he said he had been threatened by the Pakistani Taliban.
US officials said Thursday that al Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan, Abu Hafs al Shahri, was killed earlier this week by a CIA drone strike in the country's tribal areas.
In a week when the world has been remembering 9/11, authorities in Germany are still tackling their own, growing, kind of Muslim fundamentalism. More than 1,000 people are thought by authorities to be potential terrorists. One was arrested last week with an accomplice amid suspicions they were creating a bomb. Followers of Salafism, which calls for a return to the origins of Islam, are being monitored particularly closely.
