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Yemen: U.S. backing masks Saudi covert ops

Jul 05, 2012 (UPI)

As Yemen's military, backed by U.S. Special Forces and the CIA, drive al-Qaida forces out of their southern strongholds, Saudi Arabia's intelligence agents, old...

ETA member linked to planned PM attack detained in France

Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)

French police Wednesday arrested an ETA member wanted in connection with a planned missile attack on then Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001, in th...

Missiles on standby to protect London Olympics: ministry

Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)

Surface-to-air missile defence systems will be deployed at six sites in London during the Olympics as a "powerful deterrent" against attack, Britain's Ministry ...

China says plane hijack attempt thwarted

Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)

Six members of China's Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region on Friday but crew members and pass...

War-torn Yemen faces a new crisis: famine

Jun 27, 2012 (UPI)

U.S.-backed Yemen, torn by a major conflict with al-Qaida and other serious security problems, now faces a new crisis: a potentially crippling food shortage tha...

Indian police arrest Mumbai terror suspect

Jun 26, 2012 (UPI)

A man arrested by police in New Delhi reportedly has confessed to being involved in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 165 people. Syed Zabi...

Bali bomb maker gets 20 years in jail

Jun 22, 2012 (UPI)

A court in Jakarta has handed down a 20-year jail sentence to a man accused of helping to make the deadly Bali bombs that killed more than 200 people in 2002. H...

'30 Qaeda dead' in Yemen raids, anti-West plot foiled

Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)

Yemeni security forces carried out air strikes in which 30 suspected Al-Qaeda militants were reported killed in the south of the country on Wednesday and said t...

Somali Islamists pounded by African troops

Jun 20, 2012 (UPI)

The Islamist militants of al-Shabaab, like their al-Qaida allies in nearby Yemen, are being driven out of towns they've held for years by Western-backed regiona...

Yemen: Retreating al-Qaida takes revenge

Jun 19, 2012 (UPI)

The assassination of one of Yemen's top military commanders, presumably by al-Qaida in retaliation for a government offensive, suggests the organization is far ...

US denounces attack on Yemeni general

Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)

The United States denounced a suicide attack Monday that killed a Yemeni general who had led a major offensive against Al-Qaeda militants in the country's south...

Islamists in northern Mali fire on two aircraft

Jun 15, 2012 (AFP)

Islamist militants who have taken control of Timbuktu in northwest Mali fired on two aircraft flying over the famed desert trading town, residents and a journal...

AQIM blames Germany over botched kidnap raid

Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)

Al-Qaeda's north African branch has blamed the German government for the recent death of a hostage in a botched rescue raid in Nigeria, and warned Berlin to imp...

U.S. risks getting dragged into Yemen war

Jun 12, 2012 (UPI)

Yemen's army claims it has recaptured the southern town of Jaar from al-Qaida in a U.S.-backed offensive to crush the jihadists and their allies in which the Am...

KRouge lawyers consider quitting UN-backed court

Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)

Lawyers for a top Khmer Rouge leader on trial for atrocities said Tuesday they were considering quitting Cambodia's UN-backed court because government interfere...

25 Qaeda gunmen killed in south Yemen

Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)

Violence in south Yemen on Thursday killed 30 people, of whom 25 were Al-Qaeda fighters, including five in an air strike by the Yemeni air force, officials said...

Qaeda advertises for suicide bombers on web

Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has begun posting Internet advertisements offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France, adverts o...

System improves automated monitoring of security cameras

Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)

Police and security teams guarding airports, docks and border crossings from terrorist attack or illegal entry need to know immediately when someone enters a pr...

Football: Euro 2012 massive security challenge for Poland

Jun 02, 2012 (AFP)

As its team prepares to take to the pitch at Euro 2012, tournament host Poland is bracing for its biggest security challenge in decades. With hundreds of thousa...

Outside View: Extremes and a common theme

May 31, 2012 (UPI)

There are interesting similarities between two groups, diametrically opposed to each other, who represent the extreme fringes of their religions. Islamic extrem...