CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's interior minister said on Tuesday that 19 people thought to have links to Al-Qaeda had been arrested in Egypt last month.
The group, which included Tunisians and Libyans, "had used Egypt as a transit point from which they would travel to other countries, including Iraq, to join a group called the Islamic State of Iraq," Habib al-Adly told the state-owned Al-Ahram dai [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Yemen branch of Al-Qaeda Friday claimed responsibility for a plot to send parcel bombs to the United States and for the September downing of a UPS cargo plane, the monitoring website SITE said.
The Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) group posted the message on "jihadist" web forums, and called for more explosive parcels to "enlarge the circle of its application to i [...]
PARIS (AFP) - British anti-terror police disarmed an Al-Qaeda bomb just 17 minutes before it was due to detonate, France said Thursday, after the explosives were intercepted on their way from Yemen to the United States.
French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said one of two parcel bombs found last week at airports in Dubai and Britain was on the point of exploding, and officials in his office [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda has combined the global reach of both the English language and the Internet as cyber-terrorism tools to win over non-Arab sympathisers.
Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based wing released the first edition of an online English-language magazine, Inspire, four months ago that included an article on how to build a bomb.
A second, 74-page edition made it to the World Wide Web last week in [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Possibly hundreds of members of Iraq's Awakening Councils, a group affiliated with the US military, have switched their loyalty to Al-Qaeda, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Citing unnamed Iraqi government officials, current and former members of the Awakening and insurgents, the newspaper said that although there were no firm figures, hundreds of fighters appear t [...]
PARIS (AFP) - Al-Qaeda urged Muslims in western countries to weld deadly steel blades to SUV vehicles and then plough into civilian crowds, in the second edition of the group's online English-language magazine.
"Inspire", a 74-page propaganda organ published by the Yemen-based wing of the Islamist group, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), aims to recruit young westerners to the jihad [...]
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ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - A Yemeni judge was threatened on Monday by Al-Qaeda suspects at the start of their trial in Mukalla in the eastern Hadramut province, a judicial source told AFP.
The threats were made against presiding judge Abdu Ali al-Awashi, at a court specialising in terrorism cases, where 16 alleged members of the jihadist network went on trial charged with forming an armed group, and i [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Sunday he is determined to fight Al-Qaeda, which has become increasingly active in his country, in a speech marking the anniversary of the 1962 revolution.
"We are committed to the war on terror... which has harmed our economy, the reputation of our religion and country," Saleh said in the speech, which was published by state news agency Sa [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for Sunday's twin car bombings that killed at least 29 people and wounded 111 in Baghdad, US monitoring group SITE said on Friday.
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said that its militants "managed to break through the heavy barriers of the army and the apostate police that had been placed in the two fortified neighbourhoods, and planted two b [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan visited Yemen on Monday and discussed cooperation in the fight against Al-Qaeda, the White House said.
Brennan met President Ali Abdullah Saleh and delivered a letter from Obama expressing US support for a "unified, stable, democratic and prosperous Yemen," White House spokesman Mike Hammer said in a state [...]
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