カテゴリー: Al-Qaida
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for controversial role after 9/11Dick Cheney, the divisive US vice-president under George W Bush who helped lead the country into a disastrous invasion of Iraq, died on…
Saifullah Paracha, 75, returns to Pakistan after being held, but never charged, over suspected al-Qaida tiesA 75-year-old Pakistani man who was the oldest prisoner at the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, has been released and returned home, the foreign…
Early release of ex-member of terror group linked to al-Qaida will cause distress for bereaved, says Australian PMUmar Patek, the bomb maker who helped assemble the devices used in the 2002 bombing in Bali, could walk free early from prison this year.T…
UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali’s most important military base, ‘is once again the leader of global jihad’It was one of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s last victories. Just over a week before the al-Qaida leader was killed in Ka…
The Kabul property hit by a US drone was familiar. It turned out Dan Smock had something in common with al-Qaida’s leaderThe balcony in Kabul where the head of al-Qaida was killed was a spot Dan Smock knew well. It used to be his – when he worked in Af…
Senior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranksSenior Taliban commanders weighing up how to respond to the US assassination of al-Qaida’s leader in Kabul are caught between their hopes for internat…
The death of the al-Qaida leader points to a potential shift in the complex dynamic between the US, Pakistan and the TalibanA decade after US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in a special operation in Pakistan, Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US dro…
Founder of al-Qaida with Osama bin Laden who went on to succeed him as its leaderAfter nearly two decades in hiding, the Egyptian terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, successor to Osama bin Laden as head of al-Qaida, has died aged 71. He was killed by two miss…
Sherpur, with its gaudy ‘poppy palaces’, has hosted warlords, US contractors and now the Taliban’s top tierThe leader of al-Qaida spent the last weeks of his life less than 500 metres from the swimming pool and bar where British diplomats relaxed durin…
A US drone strike in Afghanistan has killed the top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joe Biden announced on Monday. The US president described the death of Zawahiri, who was Osama bin Laden’s deputy and successor, as a major blow to the terrorist net…
Leader of global militant group was killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan on SundayThe leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday. The US president, Joe Biden, announced the death on Monday evenin…
Analysis: The terrorist leader had been ill and key tasks are likely to have been handled by others for several yearsAyman al-Zawahiri was a low-key but effective leader of al-Qaida whose death will cause the terrorist organisation some short-term turb…
A lifelong jihadist who became Osama bin Laden’s successor, Zawahiri waged a long war of terror against the US and its alliesReport: Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strikeSallow-skinned and clad in white in front of a green backdr…
President ordered strike on Kabul safe house last month during a high-level meeting, administration saysA US drone strike in Afghanistan has killed the top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joe Biden announced on Monday.The US president described the …
Suicide bombings threatened after ‘slandering’ comments made by Hindu Bharatiya Janata partyAl-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent has said it plans to carry out suicide bombings in revenge for the “insulting and slandering” remarks made by leaders of the…