Al-qaeda Linked Terrorist

A special NIA court in Mumbai on Monday sentenced two citizens of Bangladesh to five years' imprisonment for harbouring terrorists of Al-Qaeda linked Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an official said.

The raids are learnt to have links with the case related to the conspiracy hatched by the accused to spread terror activities of the Islamic State (IS), a banned terrorist organisation.

Pakistan-based deputy leader of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdul Rehman Makki released a video on Thursday from the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, denying any links with al-Qaeda or Islamic State.

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested eight suspected terrorists having links with Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent and its affiliate Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen from different places, officials said on Monday.

Six suspected terrorists having links with Bangladesh-based terror group Ansarul Islam were arrested in Barpeta district of Assam and charged under the tough anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the police said on Saturday.

The three neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists, arrested in Kolkata, were setting up terror modules in West Bengal and may have links with Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), police said.

Groups associated with al-Qaeda and ISIS are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to spread conspiracy theories that the virus is "punishing the unbelievers", is "God''s wrath upon the West" and incites terrorists to use it as a form of biological weapon, according to a UN report.

Former Indian High Commissioner Pakistan Gautam Bambawale said today that India succeeded in establishing strong links between Jaish-e- Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, Al-Qaeda and ISIS, leading to his designation as a "global terrorist".

Ahead of Independence Day, two men with suspected links to al-Qaeda were arrested here in two separate cases, police said today.

A terrorist linked to al-Qaeda was arrested in Delhi this morning, police said. He was allegedly trying to escape to Nepal.

The Libyan jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia, which is linked to Al-Qaeda and deemed a terrorist organisation by the UN and the United States, announced its "dissolution" in a communique published online on Saturday.

A senior Al-Qaeda commander linked to major attacks in Pakistan including the bombing of a luxury hotel and an assault on Sri Lankan cricket team has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, Washington said Saturday.

Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman has admitted his links with the terrorists involved in the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata, a senior police official said today.

Spanish police said they arrested seven people today with suspected links to Al-Qaeda and the ISIS.

A suspected terrorist with Al Qaeda links was arrested today from Cuttack in Odisha, police said.

A special NIA court in Mumbai on Monday sentenced two citizens of Bangladesh to five years' imprisonment for harbouring terrorists of Al-Qaeda linked Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an official said.

The raids are learnt to have links with the case related to the conspiracy hatched by the accused to spread terror activities of the Islamic State (IS), a banned terrorist organisation.

Pakistan-based deputy leader of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdul Rehman Makki released a video on Thursday from the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, denying any links with al-Qaeda or Islamic State.

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested eight suspected terrorists having links with Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent and its affiliate Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen from different places, officials said on Monday.

Six suspected terrorists having links with Bangladesh-based terror group Ansarul Islam were arrested in Barpeta district of Assam and charged under the tough anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the police said on Saturday.

The three neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists, arrested in Kolkata, were setting up terror modules in West Bengal and may have links with Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), police said.

Groups associated with al-Qaeda and ISIS are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to spread conspiracy theories that the virus is "punishing the unbelievers", is "God''s wrath upon the West" and incites terrorists to use it as a form of biological weapon, according to a UN report.

Former Indian High Commissioner Pakistan Gautam Bambawale said today that India succeeded in establishing strong links between Jaish-e- Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, Al-Qaeda and ISIS, leading to his designation as a "global terrorist".

Ahead of Independence Day, two men with suspected links to al-Qaeda were arrested here in two separate cases, police said today.

A terrorist linked to al-Qaeda was arrested in Delhi this morning, police said. He was allegedly trying to escape to Nepal.

The Libyan jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia, which is linked to Al-Qaeda and deemed a terrorist organisation by the UN and the United States, announced its "dissolution" in a communique published online on Saturday.

A senior Al-Qaeda commander linked to major attacks in Pakistan including the bombing of a luxury hotel and an assault on Sri Lankan cricket team has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, Washington said Saturday.

Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman has admitted his links with the terrorists involved in the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata, a senior police official said today.

Spanish police said they arrested seven people today with suspected links to Al-Qaeda and the ISIS.

A suspected terrorist with Al Qaeda links was arrested today from Cuttack in Odisha, police said.