Spain plans to help Mali fight al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb, the Mali president’s office announced on Tuesday.
Somalia’s militant al-Shabaab group said on Monday it would shut down three UN agencies operating in the country.
Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure has announced ”a total struggle against al-Qaeda” after recent deadly clashes.
Thousands of Yemenis marched on Wednesday in protest at the killing of three foreign hostages as security forces expanded the search for six others.
Three German women from a party of nine kidnapped foreigners have been found dead in north Yemen, a government and a tribal source said on Monday.
Pakistan braced for militant reprisals on Monday ahead of an assault on the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
A prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Lahore, police said.
The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, and the agency is hoping to close in on him as the country’s military cracks down on the tribal area.
A senior member of Somalia’s Islamist movement al-Shabaab threatened on Thursday to ”invade” Kenya if it did not reduce its military presence.
South African Muslims gave a cautious welcome to United States President Barack Obama’s speech on the Middle East in Cairo on Thursday.
Al-Qaeda’s North African wing said on Wednesday it had carried out its threat to kill a British hostage it was holding in the Sahara.
Tunisia said on Tuesday the North African country is ready to take back for legal examination all its nationals held at Guantánamo Bay.
Iraq was on Thursday engulfed by a wave of violence, with attacks killing 23 people a day after a massive bomb slaughtered 40 civilians.
Pakistani authorities temporarily lifted a curfew on Friday to enable thousands of people to flee the fighting in the militant bastion of Swat.
Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted north Mogadishu on Tuesday where fighting has killed at least 113 civilians.
Warnings of refugee crisis in Pakistan with 1,3-million on the run as minister pledges to continue fight until ”the last” militant is killed.
Pakistani jets screamed over a Taliban-controlled town on Friday and bombed suspected militant positions as hundreds of thousands fled in terror.
Barack Obama will urge the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to put aside mistrust and join Washington in an alliance against Islamic extremists.
Pakistan is continuing to expand its nuclear bomb-making facilities despite growing international concern, US nuclear experts say.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday ruled out the possibility of his country’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban.
Four children and their parents were killed in a grenade blast in Pakistan’s north-west on Sunday, a day after 12 children were killed by a bomb.
At least 83 people were killed across Iraq on Thursday in four bombings that swiftly followed the apparent arrest of the country’s most wanted man.
Former insurgents recruited by US forces to fight al-Qaeda are plotting to launch terror attacks of their own, Iraq’s vice president said on Tuesday.
Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.
A man who calls himself an American promotes holy war in Somalia in a video posted this week on an Islamic militant website.
Dellys should be a tourist hotspot, yet it is isolated as it tries to recover from a brutal civil conflict that engulfed the country in the 1990s.
Pakistan’s new role at the centre of the fight against al-Qaeda will lead to more extremist violence and pose huge challenges to a government with a doubtful ability to deliver
Foreign jihadists have flocked to Somalia in recent months, joining forces with local fighter to turn the country into an al-Qaeda haven.
The US president plans to send thousands of troops to train Afghan forces as part of a strategy that will focus efforts on destroying al-Qaeda havens.
Turkish police have received US intelligence that militants from al-Qaeda could be plotting attacks on foreign targets in Turkey.
A suicide bomber on Wednesday struck a convoy carrying South Korean officials sent to Yemen to probe an earlier bombing that killed four tourists.
Pakistan extended a crackdown against activists on Friday, banning rallies and arresting scores of people ahead of planned mass protests.