Two major bombings in two days in Iraq have left scores of people dead and sparked new security concerns as United States forces prepare to pull out.
We’re only 50 days in, but it’s not too soon to discern a refreshing thread of logic in the president’s foreign policy.
A probe into the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team has found signs that Pakistani militants with possible ties to al-Qaeda were responsible.
Pakistan’s interior ministry chief said on Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.
A car bomb exploded in a livestock market in Iraq’s southern Babil province on Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 40, police said.
The Algerian army killed seven Islamist militants during a raid on a secret base near the Algerian capital, a security official said on Monday.
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/ 27 February 2009
A Moroccan court convicted 18 people over a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca six years ago that left 45 dead.
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/ 26 February 2009
Taliban militants beheaded an Afghan in Pakistan’s lawless tribal region after accusing him of spying for the United States, police said on Thursday.
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/ 25 February 2009
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday barred opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from elected office, raising the prospect of bitter political conflict.
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/ 23 February 2009
Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held at Guantánamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to home on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2009
Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 warned Palestinians in Gaza against accepting a truce with Israel in an audio message posted on extremist websites.
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/ 18 February 2009
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa network has claimed responsibility for the abduction of two Canadian diplomats and four European tourists in Niger.
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/ 10 February 2009
United States President Barack Obama has vowed to prevent al-Qaeda from operating ”with impunity” in Afghanistan.
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/ 31 January 2009
Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country’s fragile security gains.
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/ 28 January 2009
President Barack Obama is retaining a powerful but controversial US weapon left over from the Bush administration’s battle against terrorism.
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/ 23 January 2009
Three civilians were killed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Friday as government pondered its options for wresting control of the valley from militants.
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/ 14 January 2009
Few Somalis expressed hope on Wednesday after Ethiopian troops quit bases in Mogadishu and Islamist insurgents said they would launch attacks.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks.
A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people and wounded 72 on Friday at a feast for Sunni Arab electoral candidates and tribal leaders.
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/ 15 December 2008
President George Bush went into talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday to assure him that the US will stand by the war-torn country.
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/ 7 December 2008
A computer memory stick has revealed a blueprint for the training and recruitment of child suicide.
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/ 3 December 2008
The outgoing Bush administration was always going to leave president-elect Barack Obama with the problem of what to do about Pakistan.
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/ 3 December 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due in New Delhi on Wednesday as part of intense US efforts to ease tension between India and Pakistan.
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/ 24 November 2008
Drones deliver a silent, deadly payload that has proved effective in killing militants, but has also killed civilians when intelligence goes awry.
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/ 19 November 2008
Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri condemned United States president-elect Barack Obama as a ”house Negro” in an internet message on Wednesday.
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/ 16 November 2008
A radical Islamic group has seized another Somali port town, consolidating its control over a south-western region that borders the Somali capital.
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/ 14 November 2008
Suspected US drones fired missiles into a Pakistani tribal region on Friday, killing 12 people, including five foreigners.
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/ 30 October 2008
North Somali authorities said on Thursday they had arrested a prominent local sheikh suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks.
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/ 29 October 2008
The United States may close its embassy in Damascus to the public due to fears of violence, a US spokesperson said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 October 2008
A suspected US drone fired missiles on Monday into a Pakistani region on the Afghan border that is a stronghold of a Pakistani Taliban leader.
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/ 22 October 2008
Websites being used to disseminate propaganda by al-Qaeda appear to have come under systematic cyber-attack, forcing the closure of three.
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/ 15 October 2008
The US military says that a foreign insurgent killed in the Iraqi city of Mosul has been identified as Abu Qaswarah, al-Qaeda’s number two in Iraq.