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French forces in Mali have launched air-and-ground operations to aid West African coalition troops in driving back al Qaeda-linked rebels.

Al-Qaeda has apparently announced a bounty of $160,000 for the head of the U.S. ambassador to Yemen.

A car bomb blast in a market in the Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan Monday killed at least 16 people and wounded several others news agencies reported citing Pakistani authorities.

At least eight people were killed and eight others injured when Taliban militants attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan, Monday, authorities said.

A U.S. drone attack reportedly killed a top al-Qaeda commander in Pakistan Thursday.

Assassination of Saudi military attaché on Wednesday just another red flag in Yemen's growing militant problem.

Internal emails among the U.S. military officers, released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Defense, indicated that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea followed traditional Islamic procedures.

The Republican senator said he's surprised, and frustrated, that the intelligence community itself was responsible for deleting references to Al Qaeda from a document on the Benghazi attacks.

With a new conclusion drawn on the deleted al Qaeda reference, the House Intelligence Committee hopes an explanation follows soon.

Petraeus reportedly believed all along the Benghazi attack was terrorism, but references to al Qaeda were allegedly removed from a draft document.

Muslim cleric Abu Qatada won his appeal in Britain against being extradited to Jordan. The British government has vowed to appeal the decision.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on the Muslims to kidnap westerners as a means to free the imprisoned jihadists and to restart the Egyptian revolution, the SITE Intelligence Group has reported.

Qassem Aqlani, a 20-year U.S. Embassy veteran, was shot in a drive-by motorcycle shooting by a masked gunman.

A militant group connected to Al-Qaeda set off two suicide bombs near a military compound in Damascus, killing around 100 people.

Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye and had been a member of the Saudi Arabian branch of Muslim Brotherhood in his youth, his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri revealed in a video posted online Wednesday.

Clinton says terrorist affiliates are working with other extremists to erode the democratic transition in North Africa, as seen in Benghazi.

Unmanned US drone attacks are killing too many innocent civilians in Pakistan and doing little too root out the militants they are supposed to be targeting, according to an independent report.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton debunked Thursday rumors that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was on an al Qaeda hit list before he was killed in Benghazi last week.

A federal judge has halted a recent court ruling that sharply questioned the federal government's power to indefinitely detain terror suspects -- but the issue won't be solved until later this month at the earliest.

The man suspected to be Sam Bacile, the director behind the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, was taken in for questioning on Saturday by the L.A. police. Meanwhile, protests in Afghanistan and Jakarta turned violent, and Al-Qaeda called last week's bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens a "great event."

Hundreds of demonstrators attacked the security personnel and burned cars early Monday during protests in the Afghan capital against an anti-Islamic film that has been creating ripples in the Middle East, North Africa and some parts of Asia.