If this is true (and he surely knows more about it than I), then we are simultaneously weakened by the loss of what has been our most streadfast allied organization,...

Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country’s bloody conflict and are severing their ties with al Qaeda. King...

CNN has reported that Pakistan’s Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead from kidney failure. The death has also been reported by GEO Television and other local...

In the third part of this series, Pakistani analyst Khawar Mehdi tells Pepe Escobar how al- Qaeda after 9/11 reorganized and established itself in North Waziristan in...

In his first presidential debate with Barack Obama on Sept. 26, 2008, John McCain said: “I’ve been to Waziristan. I can see how tough that terrain is....

Situated between Algeria and Libya along the Mediterranean, the tiny North African Republic of Tunisia is not a nation known for making headlines. But its small size...

Fazul Abdullah Mohamed, who is said to be one of the brains behind the bombing in the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, is said to be planning another attack...

THE burning of Islamabad’s Marriott hotel that Indian channels showed at length is still etched in the memory of horrified people. They are worried about Pakistan....

Recently two big incidents happened in Pakistan. A suicide bomber hit Marriot Hotel in Islamabad’s most secure area, killed 53 people, including Czech Republic...

Mauritania’s army says it has found the bodies of 12 soldiers who were abducted earlier this week in an ambush by a suspected al-Qaeda branch.

Wild passion can be dangerous, especially when it comes from extremist groups like the al-Qaeda. Their latest weapon, according to The US Army is to deploy women for...

Seven years after Sept. 11, 2001, in spite of President Bush’s vows, the mastermind of the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil, Osama bin Laden, is still...

The tribal areas of Pakistan (FATA) are turning out to be the biggest headache for both the US and the fledgling Pakistan government. Experts have been pointing out...

Having suffered setbacks in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Al Qaeda has turned its attention towards an impoverished Yemen to relaunch the Islamic Jihad against Western targets...

As President Bush nears the end of his term, it seems the vow he had made in 2001 to finish off Osama bin Laden will remain unfulfilled. The reason is the Al Qaeda has...

The massive bomb which killed Lebanon’s likely next army chief, Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, has raised many questions. At first glance it would appear to be revenge...

A new chapter has been opened by Al Qaeda in Iraq; which is to use children to further its aims. The US military released video footage of a tape it claims it stumbled...

Al Qaeda is being used by Presidents Musharraf and Bush to distract everyone from domestic problems that plague both countries. Pakistan does not know who to blame for...

Algeria is not new to fundamentalist violence and Islamic radicals have often struck domestic interests to bring about a political change in the predominantly Muslim...

Insurgent groups within Algeria and parts of North Africa have become a franchise of Al-Qaeda, according to the US Intelligence reports. American military officials...