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Topic: al-Qaeda

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February 2, 2013
11:33 pm

Elevated view of the side entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, after a suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on Friday Feb. 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

Turkey: Embassy bombers cling to Cold War ideology

Some speculate that the DHKP-C targeted the old ‘imperialist’ nemesis of leftist radicals everywhere, in efforts to oust Assad

By Christopher Torchia

February 1, 2013
7:33 am

Portland, Oregon's Pioneer Courthouse Square, with its annual Christmas tree, in December 2011 (photo credit: Steve Morgan/Wikimedia Commons)

Jury finds teen terror-plot suspect guilty

Somali-American faces life in prison for attempting to blow up a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Oregon

January 29, 2013
8:45 am

An American predator drone (photo credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

US weighs base for spy drones in North Africa

From the web America wishes to step up surveillance on Islamist extremist groups, may use new installation to launch strikes, NY Times reports

January 29, 2013
8:00 am

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, flanked by Syrian National Coalition vice-president Riad Seif attend a press conference during the International support meeting of the Syrian National Coalition in Paris, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 (photo credit:AP/Francois Mori)

France warns extremists could prevail in Syria

If Syrian people won’t ‘achieve their freedom… massacres and antagonisms’ will have the upper hand, FM Fabius tells opposition gathering

January 27, 2013
12:00 am

French-led forces in Mali retake Gao

From the web France24: Multi-national force captures Islamist stronghold in major victory for 16-day-old North African offensive

January 26, 2013
10:56 pm

Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya in February 2012. (photo credit: AP/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Fears grow that Libya is incubator of turmoil

Islamist groups on the rise in North Africa since the fall of Gaddafi, and Malian conflict is the latest example

January 26, 2013
7:51 am

Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci speaks Friday during an interview with the Associated Press at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (photo credit: Anja Niedringhaus/AP)

Algeria assessing ‘mistakes’ in hostage standoff

Foreign minister says security conditions for multinational companies working in his Saharan country need to be reinforced

January 25, 2013
11:45 pm

Mohammad Reza Heydari, interviewed on Israel's Channel 2, January 25 (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Ex-Iranian diplomat warns Israel: If Iran gets the bomb, it will fire on you

Tehran’s former consul in Oslo, interviewed on Israeli TV, says Islamic regime is ‘willing to destroy many countries’

By Yifa Yaakov

January 25, 2013
1:18 am

Egyptian protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo (photo credit: Amr Nabil/AP)

In Davos, examining the Arab Spring’s mixed bag

Political liberation can be a double-edged sword, the Middle East learns

By Dan Perry

January 24, 2013
2:42 am

US drone strike in Yemen reportedly kills seven

Car carrying al-Qaeda operatives explodes outside Sana’a

January 23, 2013
5:24 pm

Rescue workers and bystanders surround a building damaged by a rocket attack, that killed at least 12 people, in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday (photo credit: AP/SANA)

6 family members killed in Syrian rebel stronghold

No plans to evacuate tens of thousands of Russian citizens from war zone after 77 leave for Moscow Wednesday

January 22, 2013
6:40 pm

Said Ali al-Shihri (photo credit: screen capture Youtube)

Leading al-Qaeda operative said killed in Yemen

Said Ali al-Shihri, considered terror group’s No. 2 in the country, had spent 6 years in Guantanamo

By Aaron Kalman

January 20, 2013
11:54 pm

French legionnaires exit a military plane at Bamako airport, Mali (photo credit: AP/Jeremy Lempin)

French troops inch north in Mali as Islamists melt away

From the web Reuters: Armored vehicles advance towards central Malian town, cautious of guerrilla-style counterattacks

January 20, 2013
10:37 pm

Algerian special police unit officers guard the entrance of an hospital located near the gas plant where hostages were kidnapped by Islamic militants, in Ain Amenas, Saturday, January 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Anis Belghoul)

25 more bodies found at Algerian plant, officials say

At least 81 killed in hostage crisis; still unclear whether anyone was rescued in special forces operation

By Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm

January 20, 2013
12:43 pm

Bloody siege over, de-miners scour Algeria complex

British premier says 3 Britons confirmed killed, 3 others feared dead in confrontation with extremist Islamist hostage-takers