Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, has demanded the release of militant prisoners in return for the abducted Nigerian girls.
Boko Haram's leader claims the girls converted to Islam and said he would only free them in exchange for the release of imprisoned militants.
President Jonathan vows that the kidnapping is the "beginning of the end" of terror in his country.
Four soldiers were killed in a gun battle that broke out when militants attacked the main gate of the palace in the capital Sanaa.
Nigeria has accepted a U.S. intelligence offer after more than 200 girls were abducted by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.
The radical Islamist group in Nigeria vows to sell 276 young girls into slavery.
The government is using this growing fear to sway public opinion on Uyghur separatists.
The White House will soon provide Congress a secretive dossier on about 50 non-Afghan detainees in a U.S. military prison north of Kabul.
Abu Ghaith, 48 faces life in prison after a federal court jury in New York convicted him of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists and providing such support.
The would-be bomber and al Qaeda sympathizer was caught after a yearlong NYPD investigation, including a sting operation.
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The mystery of the missing Malaysian plane continues, amid conflicting reports of its likely fate.
The search will continue in force after sunrise in Southeast Asia.
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Aziz boasted that TTP is better prepared to fight than the state and is ready for a long war.
The debate to kill an American accused of plotting terrorist attacks against the U.S. has reportedly been on for six months.
Russia has deployed an array of operations to deter would-be terrorists from targeting the Winter Games.
Olympic security always threatens to overshadow the event itself, and with the introduction of drone surveillance, Sochi might just achieve it.
The Shin Bet intelligence agency claimed it had arrested three people linked to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
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The incident closely followed Sunday's blast triggered by a suicide bomber in a Volgograd train station, which killed 17.