March 9, 2014
11:55 am

UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum in an interview with the BBC. (photo credit: screen capture, BBC)

UAE places Muslim Brotherhood on blacklist

Western-allied Gulf federation brands group a terrorist organization, joins wider regional crackdown

By AP

March 8, 2014
4:04 pm

Lebanese firefighters extinguish burned cars at the site of an explosion, near the Kuwaiti Embassy and Iran's cultural center, in the suburb of Beir Hassan, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Al-Qaeda group apologizes for civilian deaths in Lebanon

Abdullah Azzam Brigades says ‘technical fault’ caused blast near Iranian cultural center in Beirut in February

By AP

March 4, 2014
2:53 pm

Syrian army advancing on rebel town near Lebanon

Syrian troops have been in the area since December, trying to sever rebel supply route

By Albert Aji

March 4, 2014
1:40 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and US President Barack Obama, right, separately address the media after a G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Friday, September 6, 2013. (photo illustration credit: AP)

Obama thrust into role as leader of the ‘West’

The much-maligned president who set out to reshape US foreign policy has found himself playing Cold War chess

By Stephen Collinson

March 2, 2014
4:57 am

Suleiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman, captured by the United States on Thursday, March 7, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Al-Jazeera)

Bin Laden’s son-in-law faces trial in New York

Suleiman Abu Ghaith is best known for incendiary threats in the aftermath of 9/11

By Jennie Matthew

March 1, 2014
1:46 am

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man, right, runs for cover from a Syrian government forces airstrike attack, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Jihadis withdraw from parts of northern Syria

Pullout comes 3 days after al-Qaeda-linked group gives Islamic State 5-day ultimatum to accept mediation by leading clerics

By Bassem Mroue

February 26, 2014
2:59 pm

Rebels from al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base in northern Syria. (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Syria says 175 rebels killed in ‘ambush’ near Damascus

State news agency claims fighters hailed from al-Qaeda-linked groups, publishes gruesome photographs of bodies lined in a row

By AP, AFP and Times of Israel staff

February 26, 2014
10:32 am

Flames rise from a gas pipeline explosion in el-Arish, Egypt in July. The pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan has been attacked more than a dozen times since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak. (photo credit: AP/File)

Sinai militants blow up Egyptian gas pipeline

Explosion south of the city of Al-Arish is the fourth such attack since the beginning of the year

By AFP

February 25, 2014
4:15 am

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with ranking members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in Washington, DC, Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Molly Riley)

US presses Iraq on reports of arms deal with Iran

State Department says that if true, matter would raise ‘serious concerns’

By AFP

February 23, 2014
6:25 pm

A Syrian demonstrator is wrapped in a Syrian flag carrying the picture of President Assad as they shout pro-government slogans during a demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday Jan. 31, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Syria agrees to allow UN humanitarian access

Assad regime requests that UN Security Council resolution respect ‘state sovereignty,’ but will permit entry of aid convoys

By AFP

February 23, 2014
5:09 pm

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

Rebels: Senior al-Qaeda fighter killed in Syria

Jihadist breakaway group suspected of planning the deadly attack

By AP

February 23, 2014
10:09 am

Lebanese emergency personnel and security forces gather around a burnt out vehicle at the site of a bomb explosion that targeted an army post on February 22, 2014 in eastern Lebanon's town of Hermel. (Photo credit: AFP/STR)

Al-Qaeda affiliate claims Lebanese army suicide attack

Saturday’s bombing was carried out in retaliation for Hezbollah’s support of Assad in Syrian civil war, group claims

By AP

February 22, 2014
11:22 pm

Pakistani Taliban patrol in the tribal region of South Waziristan, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Ishtiaq Mahsud/File)

Taliban condemns violence in Central African Republic

Afghan Islamist group makes rare statement on conflict between Christians, Muslims; al-Qaeda echoes opposition to ‘ethnic-religious cleansing’

By AP

February 21, 2014
6:19 pm

Somalis gather near the wreckage of one of the vehicles used for a car bomb, following a terrorist attack on the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Suicide attack on presidential palace in Somalia

President calls double car bombing and armed assault a ‘media spectacle’ by a ‘dying animal’

By Abdi Guled and Jason Straziuso

February 20, 2014
8:46 am

Warren Weinstein, a US contractor taken hostage by al-Qaeda in Pakistan in August 2011. (screen capture: YouTube)

Stop paying al-Qaeda ransoms, UN experts urge

Radical Islamist terror group finances jihadist operations by taking hostages, earned $120 m. in eight years

By Edith M. Lederer

Topic: al-Qaeda

UAE places Muslim Brotherhood on blacklist

Western-allied Gulf federation brands group a terrorist organization, joins wider regional crackdown

Al-Qaeda group apologizes for civilian deaths in Lebanon

Abdullah Azzam Brigades says ‘technical fault’ caused blast near Iranian cultural center in Beirut in February

Syrian army advancing on rebel town near Lebanon

Syrian troops have been in the area since December, trying to sever rebel supply route

Obama thrust into role as leader of the ‘West’

The much-maligned president who set out to reshape US foreign policy has found himself playing Cold War chess

Bin Laden’s son-in-law faces trial in New York

Suleiman Abu Ghaith is best known for incendiary threats in the aftermath of 9/11

Jihadis withdraw from parts of northern Syria

Pullout comes 3 days after al-Qaeda-linked group gives Islamic State 5-day ultimatum to accept mediation by leading clerics

Syria says 175 rebels killed in ‘ambush’ near Damascus

State news agency claims fighters hailed from al-Qaeda-linked groups, publishes gruesome photographs of bodies lined in a row

Sinai militants blow up Egyptian gas pipeline

Explosion south of the city of Al-Arish is the fourth such attack since the beginning of the year

US presses Iraq on reports of arms deal with Iran

State Department says that if true, matter would raise ‘serious concerns’

Syria agrees to allow UN humanitarian access

Assad regime requests that UN Security Council resolution respect ‘state sovereignty,’ but will permit entry of aid convoys

Rebels: Senior al-Qaeda fighter killed in Syria

Jihadist breakaway group suspected of planning the deadly attack

Al-Qaeda affiliate claims Lebanese army suicide attack

Saturday’s bombing was carried out in retaliation for Hezbollah’s support of Assad in Syrian civil war, group claims

Taliban condemns violence in Central African Republic

Afghan Islamist group makes rare statement on conflict between Christians, Muslims; al-Qaeda echoes opposition to ‘ethnic-religious cleansing’

Suicide attack on presidential palace in Somalia

President calls double car bombing and armed assault a ‘media spectacle’ by a ‘dying animal’

Stop paying al-Qaeda ransoms, UN experts urge

Radical Islamist terror group finances jihadist operations by taking hostages, earned $120 m. in eight years

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