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/ 31 December 2009
Officers arrested a Somali man attempting to board a Dubai-bound plane in November in Mogadishu with a white powder, liquid and syringes.
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/ 29 December 2009
A wing of al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Monday for a failed Christmas Day attack on a United States-bound passenger plane.
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/ 28 December 2009
An insurgency in the remote Shabwa region of Yemen backed by groups claiming loyalty to al-Qaeda has provided a base for the global terror network.
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/ 28 December 2009
The Obama administration said on Sunday it was investigating whether al-Qaeda was involved in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a passenger jet.
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/ 26 December 2009
A Nigerian man with possible links to al-Qaeda militants was in custody on Saturday after he tried to ignite an explosive device on a US plane.
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/ 26 December 2009
A Nigerian man linked to al-Qaeda tried to set off an explosive device aboard a US passenger plane as it approached Detroit on Friday.
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/ 10 December 2009
An al-Qaeda group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for five coordinated bombings that killed 127 people in Baghdad, US-based monitors said.
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/ 5 December 2009
Hundreds of Somalis held a rare street protest after Friday prayers to condemn a suicide bombing at a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu.
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/ 27 November 2009
Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul.
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/ 16 November 2009
United States President Barack Obama on Monday called al-Qaeda the biggest threat to US security.
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/ 4 November 2009
Pakistani troops were on Wednesday locked in deadly street battles with Taliban fighters.
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/ 30 October 2009
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hit out on Friday against Pakistan’s silence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders.
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/ 28 October 2009
A bomb in a crowded market killed more than 30 people and wounded scores on Wednesday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.
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/ 26 October 2009
Baghdad’s governor on Monday blamed negligence or even collusion by the security forces for Sunday’s deadly bombings.
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/ 17 October 2009
Pakistani authorities imposed a curfew on Saturday in the Taliban’s South Waziristan bastion ahead of an imminent assault on militants.
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/ 12 October 2009
A suspected suicide bomber killed up to 24 people in an attack on the Pakistani military on Monday.
The Taliban’s alliance with Osama bin Laden appears stronger than for years, but strains linger beneath the surface.
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/ 28 September 2009
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri told US-led forces to leave Afghanistan or face a ”flood of death” in the central Asian country.
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/ 26 September 2009
Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of ”retaliation” against them.
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/ 15 September 2009
US special forces carried out a revenge raid in Somalia that killed a top al-Qaeda commander high on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.
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/ 14 September 2009
Three Britons were jailed for life on Monday for plotting a ”terrorist outrage” on the scale of 9/11 by blowing up transatlantic airliners.
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/ 14 September 2009
Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their government’s close ties with Israel in an audio tape posted on an Islamist website on Monday.
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/ 7 September 2009
Thousands of civilians have fled a fresh military bombardment against Islamist rebels in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Monday.
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/ 2 September 2009
Chaos in Somalia is spilling over its borders, fuelling a climate of suspicion in Kenya where recruiters have been seeking new jihadists.
The terror network blamed for the Jakarta hotel bombings is ”larger and more sophisticated” than thought, a think tank said on Thursday.
Like many terror groups, al-Shabab uses Internet videos to draw disenfranchised young men into its fold.
Pakistani police have arrested seven men belonging to an al-Qaeda-linked militant group who were planning to attack high-profile targets in Karachi.
A probe into the Jakarta hotel bombings shows that militants also planned to use snipers for an attack on Barack Obama, an intelligence expert said.
A series of blasts in Baghdad on Wednesday killed 95 people and wounded 536 in Iraq’s bloodiest day this year.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing said on Tuesday it was responsible for a suicide bombing at the French embassy in Mauritania earlier this month.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday honoured the victims of the deadly 1998 attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
A Moroccan court sentenced the leader of an Islamic extremist cell to life in prison on Tuesday.