Leaders of the African Union agreed at a summit on Monday to reinforce the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia to counter al-Shabaab insurgents.
Iran is engaged in a covert campaign to arm, finance, train and equip Taliban insurgents, Afghan warlords allied to al-Qaeda and suicide bombers.
A suicide bomber attacked government-backed Sunni militia on Sunday as they lined up to be paid on Baghdad’s south-western outskirts.
Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen assaulted two south Yemen security offices on Wednesday in coordinated shooting attacks, killing at least two people.
Barack Obama tells SABC that al-Shabaab sees Africa as a place where life is cheap and innocents can be killed for little political cost.
Ugandan police have found an unexploded suicide vest and made a number of arrests after coordinated bomb blasts killed at least 76 people on Sunday.
Somalia’s president pleaded for help on Monday at a regional summit, as an al-Qaeda-inspired insurgency closed in on his Mogadishu palace.
A middle-aged American suspected of being on a mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden has been arrested in Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.
On a side street off Mogadishu’s Wadnaha Road frontline a young officer is explaining the unwritten rules of the city’s intractable civil war.
Two Ugandan soldiers serving in the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia have died in fighting with rebels for control of north Mogadishu.
Al-Qaeda said its number three leader and Osama bin Laden’s one-time top money man, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, has been killed.
There is, said the American secretary of defence, no certainty "that a conventional military victory, as commonly defined, can be achieved here".
SA security agencies were, on Thursday afternoon, still in the dark over the arrest of alleged terror suspect Abdullah Azzam Saleh Misfar al-Qahtani.
No terror threats against the World Cup have been uncovered by any intelligence agency working with Fifa, despite claims of an al-Qaeda plot in Iraq.
The man accused of plotting to attack the Soccer World Cup claims he had merely sketched notes for the idea, but the plans had not got off the page.
Evidence of ties between the failed New York bomber and Pakistan’s Taliban may only lead investigators to a murky militant network.
US authorities were still questioning a Pakistani-American man on Wednesday, who they say admitted trying to bomb New York’s Times Square.
Investigators combed through security video and other evidence on Monday in the hunt for suspects in a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.
US authorities are investigating a thwarted car bombing in New York’s famed Times Square where thousands of people gather each day and night.
Bombs targeting Shi’ite areas killed 56 people in Baghdad on Friday in a possible backlash after Iraq touted a series of blows against al-Qaeda.
Iraqi security forces backed by United States troops killed al-Qaeda’s top two leaders in Iraq.
As if South Africa’s high crime rate and the threat of hooligans weren’t enough, World Cup planners are also bracing for a possible terror attack.
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/ 24 February 2010
A ceasefire in northern Yemen has calmed a conflict that drove thousands of people from their homes, but bloody images still haunt Ali Nasser.
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/ 8 February 2010
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula number two Said al-Shihri has called for attacks against United States interests "everywhere".
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/ 3 February 2010
The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day has provided "useful, actionable" intelligence to US authorities.
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/ 2 February 2010
Senegal’s president urged African leaders on Monday to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda’s North African branch.
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/ 20 January 2010
Al-Qaeda is seeking to destabilise South Asia and could trigger a war between Pakistan and India, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 January 2010
At least 18 people were killed in fighting on Monday in two central Somali towns where rebels battled a pro-government militia and each other.
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/ 10 January 2010
In Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the lawless, strife-torn region has provided disturbing evidence that its myriad problems cannot be ignored.
The United States has warned that "regional extremists" were planning an attack on Air Uganda flights between southern Sudan and Kampala.
Pakistani authorities faced a backlash on Sunday over security and medical failures after a suicide bomber killed 99 people at a volleyball game.
The Detroit bomber reminds us that the war with fundamentalism goes on. But the facts offer room for hope.