Warren Weinstein

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that a US drone strike earlier this year killed its English-language spokesman, a California native known as Azzam the American, SITE Intelligence Group reported today.

The FBI facilitated a 2012 ransom payment of $250,000 to Al-Qaeda from the family of a kidnapped US aid worker later killed in a drone strike, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday.

The US drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfalls that former and current US officials say appear to be growing more frequent as militants expand their safe havens and as Washington gathers less on-the-ground human intelligence.

An American and an Italian who had been held hostage for several years by Al Qaeda in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan were inadvertently killed in a US counter-terrorism operation in January, US President Barack Obama today.

Al Qaeda has urged the family of an American kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 to press their government to negotiate an exchange or face the risk of his "dying a lonely death".

The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive.

The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al-Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

A 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by Al Qaeda more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released on Thursday to negotiate his release, saying he feels "totally abandoned and forgotten."

In a video released on Sunday by Al Qaeda, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.

A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that a US drone strike earlier this year killed its English-language spokesman, a California native known as Azzam the American, SITE Intelligence Group reported today.

The FBI facilitated a 2012 ransom payment of $250,000 to Al-Qaeda from the family of a kidnapped US aid worker later killed in a drone strike, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday.

The US drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfalls that former and current US officials say appear to be growing more frequent as militants expand their safe havens and as Washington gathers less on-the-ground human intelligence.

An American and an Italian who had been held hostage for several years by Al Qaeda in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan were inadvertently killed in a US counter-terrorism operation in January, US President Barack Obama today.

Al Qaeda has urged the family of an American kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 to press their government to negotiate an exchange or face the risk of his "dying a lonely death".

The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive.

The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al-Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

A 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by Al Qaeda more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released on Thursday to negotiate his release, saying he feels "totally abandoned and forgotten."

In a video released on Sunday by Al Qaeda, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.

A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...