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The coordinated attacks launched by the Taliban over the weekend on Afghanistan's capital have ended. Security forces unleashed an attack on the Taliban militants near the diplomatic enclave and the parliament before putting an end to the fighting which lasted 18 hours, a spokesman for Kabul's police chief has said.

The wives and children of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia next week.

The Yemeni government continued to battle an al-Qaeda insurgency in the south of the country on Wednesday, killing at least 30 militants on the third consecutive day of fighting.

The FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list got a bit of a shake-up today when alleged child pornographer Eric Justin Toth was added to the list. So how does a fugitive make it on the list?

The FBI updated their Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Lists to include Eric Justin Toth, a former private school teacher wanted for allegedly possessing child pornography and producing child porn.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other men had been fighting extradition, saying they would face inhumane conditions in the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo.

Suicide bombers killed at least ten people and wounded 20 persons on Tuesday morning in Afghanistan's Herat province according to the Afghan authorities. The unidentified bombers blew up a car laden with explosives outside a district head quarters building.

Fighters from Ansar al-Sharia were beaten back by Yemeni troops and aircraft. The attacks came a day after the group again called for the government to free 600 militants in exchange for 73 Yemeni soldiers.

France fears a serial killer may be on the loose in a Paris suburb where 4 people have been fatally shot in the last 5 months.

Nigerian rebels Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the Easter day bombing that killed up to three dozen people in the northern city of Kaduna.

Under a compromise struck this weekend, American troops in Afghanistan will step back to a supporting role in nighttime raids that have infuriated Afghans .

The Russian government criticized the United States for it so-called unjustified decision to sentence alleged international arms dealer, Viktor Bout, to 25 years in prison. The Kremlin has vowed to bring the Russian national, known in the United States as the Merchant of Death, back to his home country.

French police arrested 10 more suspected Islamic radicals during pre-dawn raids across the country on Wednesday, marking the second such day of mass arrests in less than a week.

New York was named as the target of a new terrorism threat Monday, as reports emerged that al Qaeda seems to have targeted New York in a foreboding online graphic.

Mali's junta leader promised to reinstate the constitution from Sunday, hours before a deadline set by West African neighbors to start handing over power, and as rebels encircled the ancient trading post of Timbuktu.

Plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the heavily disputed 2012 National Defense Authorization Act appeared to make some progress during a daylong hearing in a federal court in New York. Even the judge questioned the government's inability to define terms such as associated forces.

A new account of Osama bin Laden's life on the run after the September 11, 2001 attacks reveals that the al Qaeda leader spent nine years moving through a series of safe-houses in Pakistan, not hiding in the mountains on the Pakistan-Afghan border as previously believed.

House Republicans want to amend a law that empowers the U.S. government to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, lending more conservative support to a cause that has in the past been championed mainly by Democrats and civil libertarians.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that police have arrested 19 suspected Islamist militants from various cities across France.

A class action lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction against the military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act will be heard in a New York federal court.

Authorities in Algeria cited security concerns and reasons of public policy for the denial of the burial on their soil.