A court Friday gave police 10 more days to interrogate five detained Americans on suspicion they were planning attacks on military installations in Pakistan. Police officials said the men — all from the Washington, D.C., area — might...

A Nigerian reported to have links to al-Qaeda is being questioned after an attempted act of terrorism on a plane arriving in the US, officials say.

The secretive U.S. air strike against suspected al-Qaida in Yemen last week is the latest in what has been a fast-growing campaign to better equip and fund Yemeni forces so they can eliminate the expanding al-Qaida safe havens there. The...

Even in its weakened state, the Iraqi insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia remains a dangerous foe that has shown resiliency in carrying out major terrorist attacks intended to destabilize Iraq as the country prepares for pivotal elections early...

A court in the US has for the first time charged suspected members of al-Qaeda with plotting to traffic cocaine in order to fund terrorism. The three suspects, who are believed to be from Mali, were extradited to New York from Ghana. They...

Yemen today claimed to have killed 34 members of al-Qaida and captured 17 others in security operations in a country in which a growing jihadi presence is ringing alarm bells in the west. Yemen’s ministry of defence said troops, backed...

An al Qaeda spokesman released a video message in English offering condolences to its “unintended Muslim victims” killed in attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, appeared in a...

The officials told NBC News that the attack using Hellfire missiles had taken place in the last few days. They said the target was not the network’s Saudi leader Osama bin Laden or his Egyptian deputy Ayman...

They called it a “solidarity caravan” — a group of Spanish volunteers delivering truckloads of donated computers, wheelchairs and other gifts for Africa’s poor. For the last eight years they had followed well-publicized routes through...

Al-Qaeda is providing Pakistan-based LeT with targeting information and helping them in plotting attacks in India, aimed at provoking a conflict between the two countries that would ultimately destabilise Pakistan, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates...