Al Qaida Attack

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  Al Qaida Only Capable Of Small-Scale Regional Attacks: Top US Official

  Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a globally-banned terror group, is now probably capable of only small-scale regional attacks, a top American counter-terrorism official told lawmakers on Thursday.

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  Read What Alleged Mastermind Of The Sept 11 Attacks Wrote To Obama

  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, wrote a letter to President Barack Obama in 2015 that accused the United States of bringing the attacks upon itself, calling them a "natural reaction" to "destructive policies."

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  Bombers Raise Saudi Stakes With Back-To-Back Suicide Strikes

  Militants escalated their campaign against Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family with three suicide attacks in a single day, in the biggest challenge to the kingdom's internal security since it crushed an al-Qaida insurgency a decade ago.

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  Nuclear Security Summit: US, Saudi Place Sanctions On 6 Terror Financiers

  The United States and Saudi Arabia on Friday imposed sanctions on six entities funding the terror networks of Al Qaida, Taliban and the Lashkar-e-Taiba or LeT, which is responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that had left 166 people dead.

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  Indian Railways Website Allegedly Hacked by al-Qaida

  The hacked page of Bhusawal division of Personnel Department of the Central Railway is said to be part of a large intranet created for the department's administrative needs.

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  Bin Laden's 'Inspiration' For 9/11 Attacks Revealed By Qaida Magazine

  Osama bin Laden got inspiration for the deadly 9/11 attacks from a 1999 plane crash in which an Egyptian airline pilot deliberately downed his plane in the Atlantic Ocean, the al Qaeda has claimed.

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  Israel Buries 4 Jewish Victims of Paris Attack

  Israeli leaders gathered with the families of the four Jewish victims of a Paris terror attack on a kosher supermarket for an emotional funeral procession in Jerusalem.

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  Afghanistan Ends 2014 With Mix of Violence, Hope

  Afghanistan ended 2014 with a mixture of violence and hope today, as a Taliban attack was thwarted, a policeman gunned down his comrades and one of the country's leaders said he had convinced hundreds of insurgents to lay down their arms and support peace efforts.

• Militants Attack African Union Somalia Base, At Least 5 Dead

  Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the capital, Mogadishu, today leading to an exchange of gunfire between militants and soldiers that left at least five militants dead, an official with the mission in Somalia said.

• Gunmen Attack African Union Base in Somalia: Official

  A Somali official said that gunmen have attacked the African Union(AU) base in Mogadishu. Mohamed Abdi, a policeman at the capital's airport, which shares a fence with the AU base, said today there was an exchange of fire between the gunmen and troops.

• Iraq: Militant group claims attack that killed 25

  An al Qaida spin-off group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in a Kurdish town northeast of Baghdad that killed at least 25 people the previous day.

• Al-Qaida head recalls 'human side' of Osama bin Laden

  Here's how the new head of Al-Qaida remembers Osama bin Laden: A sensitive man who cried when his friends lost family members, remained close to his children despite the hard life of an international jihadist, and fondly remembered - by name - the 19 men who carried out the deadliest terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil.

• Al Qaida trying to harness toxin for bombs, US officials fear

  American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaida is trying to produce the lethal poison ricin, to be packed around small explosives for attacks against the United States.

• Saudis warned US of attack before parcel bomb plot

  Saudi intelligence officials warned the United States in early October that Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen was planning a terrorist attack using one or more aircraft, three weeks before a plot to send parcel bombs on cargo planes was foiled at the last minute, American and European officials said Friday.The Saudi warning came days after American off...

• Yemen emerges as base for Qaida attacks on US

  Not long ago, most Americans had scarcely heard of Yemen, the arid, Texas-size country in the southern corner of the Arabian peninsula. But on Friday, as news emerged of a plot to send explosives in courier packages from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, the world's attention was focused once again on the threats brewing in Yemen's lawless, strife-to...