Terrorism

SAN’A, Yemen—A Yemeni judge ordered police Saturday to find a radical U.S.-born cleric “dead or alive” after the al-Qaida-linked preacher failed to appear at his trial for his role in the killing of foreigners. Yemen […] […]

THE death toll from a suicide bombing on a mosque in northwest Pakistan has risen to 68, officials said. A suicide bomber struck the mosque during the main weekly prayers on Friday. It was followed […] […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence officials say a Saudi tip about a possible Al Qaeda effort to bring down airplanes was relayed to U.S. authorities in early October, nearly three weeks before the group’s Yemen affiliate tried to […] […]

BAGHDAD—Al-Qaida’s front group in Iraq on Friday claimed responsibility for a string of attacks on Baghdad’s Shiite districts this week that left 91 people dead, and threatened more strikes against the country’s majority sect. The […] […]

AN extremist website that helped inspire Roshonara Choudhry to stab MP Stephen Timms has published a complete list of British politicians who voted for the Iraq war. It called on Muslims to take up the […] […]

THE Philippines says that Western governments were wrong in warning of an imminent terrorist attack in Manila, as it downplayed the arrests of five men and the seizure of explosives. After France became the sixth […] […]

A SUICIDE bomb tore through a Pakistani mosque during weekly prayers, bringing down the roof, killing more than 50 people and trapping more under rubble. Suicide attack at Pakistani mosque kills 50, injures dozens more […] […]

WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department took aim Thursday at an anti-Indian terror group behind the Mumbai attacks and a second group trying to drive India out of Kashmir, just before President Barack Obama’s upcoming Indian visit. Treasury […] […]

CAIRO—Al-Qaida’s No. 2 in a message released Thursday vowed revenge on the United States over an 86-year jail sentence handed down in September to a Pakistani woman convicted of attacking Americans. Ayman al-Zawahri threatened new […] […]

SAN’A, Yemen—Only four years after he and a band of militants made a daring escape from a San’a prison, Qassim al-Raimi has become the dominant figure in al-Qaida’s most active franchise—the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the […] […]