The US’s decision to not strike Syria leaves Saudi Arabia and Qatar with a few options beyond continuing to fund one side in a military stalemate.
Historian Faisal Devji unearths some unusual and unlikely links in South Asia’s fraught history.
At least 18 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday when two blasts ripped through a busy parking lot next to a restaurant.
While a few diplomatic missions reopened on Sunday, others stayed shut for the Muslim holidays following Ramadan.
Security was tight at US missions in the Arab world as Washington held urgent talks on an al-Qaeda threat.
Saudi Arabia’s second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Said al-Shehri has been killed in a US drone attack in Yemen.
The "Bin Laden report" is the result of an investigation by a commission appointed by the Pakistan government into the slaying of Osama bin Laden.
Members of hardline Islamist group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya have warned that anyone trying to force President Mohamed Morsi out will be met with force.
Two South Africans have died in an al-Shabab attack on a United Nations compound in Somalia on Tuesday.
The Daily Maverick has retracted a controversial story which claimed that al-Qaeda is active in South Africa.
Al-Qaeda militants are holding a South African couple abducted last month in Yemen’s central city of Taiz, a top security official has said.
Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two radical Islamists have made another arrest.
Farhad Dockrat, a Muslim cleric accused of being involved in training al-Qaeda operatives in SA, has hit back at reports.
A report that al-Qaeda is "alive and well" in South Africa dominated newsfeeds on Monday. But how credible is the threat?
The leader of an Islamic extremist rebel group in Syria has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and its leader for the first time.
The conflict in Mali could be creating a "ticking time bomb" for neighbouring Western Sahara, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has warned.
The al-Qaeda-linked Abou Zeid was killed in combat with French troops in February, France has said, ending weeks of uncertainty about his death.
Pakistan has arrested a former militant leader in connection with the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, say officials.
A string of explosions have torn through Baghdad followed by an assault by gunmen who raided a government building, leaving at least 22 people dead.
In the aftermath of the Algerian hostage crisis, British Prime Minister David Cameron issued a warning of the continued threat from terrorism.
This week big corporations swindle SA out of R30-billion, Cosatu and the ANC go head to head and the White House defends its drone strikes against al-Qaeda.
The death toll from a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant has risen to at least 81, with nine Japanese nationals reported to have been killed.
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters have killed two people in Algeria, taking more than 40 foreign hostages, while French troops battled Islamist rebels in Mali.
Extremist forces based in northern Mali have vowed to avenge France’s fierce military offensive against them on French soil.
Al-Shabab insurgents have warned France of "bitter consequences" to a failed raid in Somalia which left two French soldiers and 17 "terrorists" dead.
The three Californian men charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas spent months preparing for a trip to Afghanistan authorities have said.
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A West African military force assembled to intervene against Islamic radicals in Mali is ready to be deployed as soon as the UN issues a green light.
A West African summit has agreed on a military force of 3 300 troops to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist extremists.
Representatives of the Ansar Dine Islamist group in northern Mali are to meet the lead mediator as plans for military action take shape.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Egyptians to restart their revolution to press for Islamic law and called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners.
Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the US mocking the Prophet Muhammad showed Washington was waging a "crusader Zionist war" against Muslims.
The UN Security Council is poised to adopt a draft resolution paving the way for military intervention in Mali on Friday, French officials said.