October 23, 2014
10:22 pm

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police intervention team walks past a gate on Parliament hill in Ottawa Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)

Canada attacks follow al-Qaeda, IS instructions to a tee

Attacks mirror calls for ‘individual jihad’ from terrorist groups eager to harm the West

By Michel Moutot

October 17, 2014
10:46 pm

In this Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 file photo, masked Pakistani Taliban militants take part in a training session in an area of Pakistan's tribal South Waziristan region along the Afghan border. (AP/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Militias rule the day in strife-torn Middle East

Chaos unleashed by Arab Spring has led to rise of powerful armed groups

By Joseph Krauss

October 17, 2014
6:22 am

US man guilty of conspiring to support terrorists

Defendant and another man spoke repeatedly about desire to fight with extremist groups including al-Qaeda and Islamic State

By AP

October 15, 2014
6:18 pm

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ya’alon: Palestinians will have autonomy, not statehood

Defense minister says he is ‘managing the conflict,’ rather than resolving it; stresses there are ‘no shortcuts’ to peace

By Marissa Newman

October 15, 2014
4:15 pm

Undated photo of Islamic State fighters near the border between Syria and Iraq (screen capture: YouTube/Vice)

The jihadi hunters

From the web New breed of civilian experts are tracking extremists online, independently of governments and media networks, the Boston Globe reports

October 15, 2014
10:23 am

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) marching in Raqqa, Syria (photo credit: AP)

Malaysian police arrest 13 with Islamic State links

National police chief says 36 people have been detained since April over suspected militant connections

By AFP

October 13, 2014
5:29 am

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani at the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Bayan Palace, Kuwait City, on March 25, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Waggi)

Al-Qaeda terror financier worked for Qatari government

From the web Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari channeled money to terror group while working in Gulf state’s Ministry of Interior, the Telegraph reports

October 10, 2014
11:34 am

Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked group, al-Nusra Front, near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Rami al-Sayed)

Al-Qaeda-linked rebels free priest, other Christians in Syria

Franciscan spokesperson says al-Nusra Front released Father Hanna Jallouf to house arrest

By AFP

October 10, 2014
9:04 am

In this Sept. 23, 2014 file photo, provided by an anti-Bashar Assad activist group Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens checking a damaged house that they say was targeted by the coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria. (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Officials: Strikes on terror cell don’t stop plots

Coalition attacks in Syria ‘effective in setting back’ Khorasan, but are no permanent solution for threats, congressman says

By Ken Dilanian

October 9, 2014
11:33 pm

Khorasan likely still plotting attacks against West

Intelligence officials say initial airstrikes effective, but many key operatives had already scattered

By Ken Dilanian

October 7, 2014
11:33 pm

Yemeni politician Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak during a visit to the Shiite rebel stronghold of Saada, September 19, 2014. photo credit: AFP/MOHAMMED HUWAIS)

Yemen names new PM, who is rejected by rebels

UN-sponsored ceasefire under strain as militia forces remain in capital

By Hammoud Mounassar

October 7, 2014
2:34 am

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the US Air Force, a formation of US Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq as part of US led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. (AP/US Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

US said to target French intelligence defector to al-Qaeda

Anonymous sources claim coalition airstrikes in Syria were directed at former agent; defense official denies link

By Justin Jalil

October 5, 2014
12:51 am

Illustrative photo of pro-Palestinian protesters in the US (photo credit: YouTube screen grab, Hamas On Campus)

Group claims pro-Palestinian students in US tied to terror

Clip produced by advocacy group Hamas On Campus purports to show growing Islamist influence in universities

By Times of Israel staff

October 2, 2014
10:09 pm

An Egyptian army watchtower on the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, July 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt army kills top jihadi operative in Sinai

Mohamed Abu Shatiya, a field commander from the al-Qaeda inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, killed during clashes

By Adiv Sterman

October 2, 2014
6:02 pm

Israelis ponder uniqueness of Khorasan terror threat

Experts say group, which US contends may be as dangerous as Islamic State, is just one of dozens of jihadi offshoots

By Mitch Ginsburg

Topic: al-Qaeda