Canada Al Qaeda

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  Justin Trudeau Brother Asks Canada Not To Deport Alleged Al Qaeda Sleeper

  The brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Canada's public safety minister to intervene to halt the deportation of an Algerian man accused of being an Al-Qaeda sleeper agent.

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  Canada Attacks Follow Al Qaeda, Islamic State Instructions to the Tee

  While they may not have officially been designated as jihadists, two suspected extremists who killed Canadian soldiers in shooting and driving rampages followed instructions issued by Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group to the letter.

• Series of ten blasts hits Baghdad, death toll rises to 62

  Ten bombings mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 41 people today, while 20 died in bombings and shootings elsewhere in Iraq, officials said.

• Suicide bombers, gunmen kill 28 in Iraq, say officials

  Gunmen and suicide bombers driving explosives-rigged vehicles launched a wave of coordinated attacks in Iraq's Anbar province overnight, killing 25 police and three civilians, officials and medics said today.

• Kenya mall attack: Foreigners 'legitimate target', says Al Shabab

  Al-Shabab, the armed Somali Islamic extremist group that attacked a shopping mall in Kenya, said Wednesday that foreigners were a "legitimate target" and confirmed witness accounts that gunmen tried to let Muslims go free while killing or taking the others captive.

• Kenya launches probe as Shabaab leader confirms mall attack

  US, British and Israeli agencies are helping Kenya investigate an attack claimed by Somali Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed at least 72 people and destroyed part of the complex, officials said on Wednesday.

• Militants say they are 'holding out' in Kenya mall

  Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group said today its militants were still holed up in a Kenyan shopping mall they attacked at the weekend and there were "countless dead bodies", raising fears the death toll could be higher than 62.

• Pakistani Christians protest over deadly church bombing, death toll rises to 82

  Angry Christians protested across Pakistan on Monday to demand better protection after a devastating double suicide bombing at a church killed more than 80 people.

• Smoke pours from Kenya mall as forces 'close in'

  Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages today, three days after a raid by Somalia's al Shabaab killed at least 62 people.

• Blast shakes Nairobi mall, smoke pours from building

  A loud explosion sent thick smoke billowing from the Nairobi mall where militants from Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group threatened to kill hostages on the third day of a raid in which at least 59 have already died.

• Suspects in Al Qaeda's train plot in Canada to appear in court

  Two foreign nationals, arrested in Canada for a suspected Al Qaeda-backed plot to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area, were due to appear in court Tuesday for a bail hearing.

• Iran rejects Al Qaeda link alleged by Canada as 'ridiculous'

  Iran today rejected as "ridiculous" a claim by Ottawa that two foreigners arrested in connection with a plot to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area were backed by Tehran-supported Al Qaeda.

• Canada to announce arrests after thwarting 'major terrorist attack': report

  Canadian police and intelligence agencies are to announce multiple arrests on Monday after an operation to thwart a "major terrorist attack," the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said on Monday, citing unnamed "highly placed" sources.

• Two arrested in Canada over Al Qaeda supported plot to derail passenger train

  Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from Al Qaeda elements in Iran, police said Monday. The case bolstered allegations by some governments and experts of a relationship of convenience between Shiite-led Iran and the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network.

• Fears of 'catastrophic' violence in tense Mali

  Mali risks descending into "catastrophic" violence, the UN rights chief has warned, after a string of attacks by Islamist rebels increased the pressure on French-led forces in the West African nation.