Terrorism

THE Taliban has called on the US Congress to send a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan to investigate what they call the lies and propaganda spread by American military chiefs to prolong the war. The Islamist […] […]

YouTube is hosting hundreds of clips in which al-Qa’ida preachers incite viewers to commit acts of terrorism and violence against the West. This is despite claims by the video-sharing website that it wants to restrict […] […]

AL-QAEDA operatives in Iraq tried to unleash deadly terror in the skies by deploying a pair of dogs on a US-bound plane, it has emerged. The plot failed because the bombs were so badly stitched […] […]

The woman stepped off Hadda Street into a pair of courier offices in Yemen’s capital. In FedEx and UPS storefronts tucked among shopping centres and travel agencies in San’a, she mailed two Hewlett-Packard printers to […] […]

NORFOLK, Va.—Five Somali men accused of firing assault rifles at a Navy ship off the coast of Africa are set to face the first U.S. piracy trial in more than 100 years. The suspected pirates […] […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says Riyadh has halted mediation efforts between the Afghan government and the Taliban because the fundamentalist movement has refused to break ties with al-Qaida. Prince Saud al-Faisal spoke Saturday […] […]

PARIS—Interpol released on Saturday details and photographs of two U.S.-bound mail bombs intercepted by authorities in Dubai and United Kingdom, to help police and the public look out for such devices in the future. The […] […]

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—On the upper deck of the ferry stand two svelte women with long braids, big smiles and camcorders capturing their final moments at the world famous naval base. One woman, the blonde, is […] […]

KABUL—NATO said Saturday it is investigating whether an Afghan National Army soldier killed two coalition service members in southern Afghanistan, where joint forces are pushing into insurgent strongholds. NATO said the coalition and the Afghan […] […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The head of the United Arab Emirates’ civil aviation authority said Saturday investigators do not believe an explosion caused the September crash of a UPS cargo jet in Dubai but are taking […] […]