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Washington (CNN) — The administration’s top counter terrorism adviser said Friday that the al Qaeda group based in Yemen poses a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden’s group based in Pakistan.
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Officials from foreign and local oil and construction firms gathered at an air force base in the Nigerian oil hub Port Harcourt on Thursday for the handover of 19...
made popular Nov 18 2010
The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, said Tuesday it kidnapped seven local workers...
made popular Nov 17 2010
One of Nigeria’s most powerful militant organizations is claiming responsibility for an attack on an oil rig that resulted in the kidnapping of a Canadian oil...
made popular Nov 10 2010
Ever wonder who is supplying arms to militant, terrorist groups like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda? The ammunition, explosives and arms have to come from somewhere, they...
made popular Oct 7 2010
At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded as clashes between government forces and Islamic militants rocked parts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday, a...
made popular Sep 27 2010
At least 23 soldiers were killed in Tajikistan after a convoy was ambushed by heavily armed militants — a devastating blow that will shake this impoverished nation...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Militants operating out of safe havens in Pakistan remain a major threat to Afghanistan but cooperation between NATO-led forces and the Pakistani military is...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Pakistani government air raids have killed up to 45 militants and their family members in hideouts in the northwestern Khyber region on the Afghan border, security...
made popular Sep 1 2010
At least 10 people are believed to have been killed in a powerful explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The dead were reported to have been anti-government...
made popular Aug 23 2010
Local officials say that Islamist insurgents, fighting a lingering conflict with Algeria’s security forces, are targeting the town’s small army of...
made popular Jun 25 2010
Somali militants have threatened football fans they will be publicly flogged - or worse - if they are caught watching the World Cup on TV.
made popular Jun 15 2010
Hezbollah is running weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles, from secret arms depots in Syria to its bases in Lebanon, according to security sources.
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made popular May 28 2010
A member of Afghan Parliament from the northern province of Badakhshan and a women rights activist, Fawzia Kofi escaped an assassination attempt in the eastern part of...
made popular Mar 8 2010
Mali has freed four militants from jail weeks after al-Qaeda’s North African branch threatened to kill a French hostage if the men were not released.
The...
made popular Feb 23 2010
The arrest of the Afghan Taliban’s top military commander in Karachi has raised concern about militants in the city but security analysts said Pakistan’s...
made popular Feb 17 2010
Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir, human rights activists said Wednesday, alleging some...
made popular Dec 3 2009
The two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, handed over to India by Bangladesh, have confessed to their involvement in the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore last year, a top...
made popular Dec 3 2009
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A recently completed peace deal with an Islamic militant group in Libya will help pave the way for the political opening and economic modernization of Libya, Saif al...
made popular Nov 27 2009
This windswept, sand-colored town in the badlands of western Pakistan is empty now, cleared of the militants who once claimed it as their capital. But its main brick...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local...
made popular Oct 30 2009
Both the frequency and intensity of suicide bombing incidents have increased since early this month. While in the past, suicide bombings mostly happened in the NWFP and...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Hundreds of villagers in northwest Pakistan have volunteered to join private militias, called lashkars. These groups have vowed to help Pakistan’s military in...
made popular Sep 10 2009
The allegations, by a leading British expert on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, increased fears that terrorists could acquire a nuclear device or could trigger a...
made popular Aug 12 2009
Today when I surf the TV channels every channel is trying to boost up that elusive TRP. And in today’s world, the true heroes of Kargil war are obviously long...
made popular Jul 27 2009
Militants in Nigeria say they have seized a ship carrying chemicals and are holding the crew of six.
A statement from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger...
made popular Jul 6 2009
A bomb in a mosque in south-east Iran has killed at least 19 people and injured 60, the governor of Sistan-Baluchestan province said.
The explosion happened in...
made popular May 29 2009
With the Swat Valley as the bitter taste of the Truth that Pakistan is facing, this comes worst than that. Today, at Lahore, eight to ten militants, in an audacious...
made popular Mar 31 2009
The news that Pakistan is controlled by different terrorist organizations is sad and unbelievable and if this is true it is that country’s own making. That...
made popular Feb 19 2009
Several vide shops were ravaged by a group of unidentified armed militants in the southwestern city of Tal in the Hangu district of NWFP. The incident, which took place...
made popular Dec 15 2008
Twelve coordinated bomb blasts across the troubled north-eastern Indian state of Assam have killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 80.
Police said one of the...
made popular Oct 30 2008
Every Pakistani must read this article. If you want to uncover the American lie that Pakistan is a haven for Al Qaeda, which is not, just confront any U.S. official...
made popular Oct 14 2008
A joint session of parliament in Islamabad has heard, in camera, the newly-appointed ISI Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha — who was Director General Military...
made popular Oct 11 2008
One of the problems with countries like Syria - secretive and authoritarian - is that whenever a bomb goes off or someone is assassinated, the list of possible suspects...
made popular Oct 1 2008
The Great Game -Renewed. Lord Curzon famously stated ” who ever control West Asia controls the world”. In his view this entailed the exercise of a predominant...
made popular Sep 20 2008
A tribal lashkar, an army organized by common people, was formed in Bajaur tribal area close to Afghanistan to oust the Taliban militants, somewhat that the government...
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The militants from Assam are not only taking shelter in Bangladesh, but they had also invested money in the local media. It is suspected that the United Liberation...
made popular Aug 25 2008
In the past three years, Nigeria has recorded its highest cases of abduction in the Niger Delta region by the Militant Youths of the Nigeria Delta, though most of the...
made popular Aug 12 2008
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A Palestinian worker prints a poster showing a militant who was killed in Israel’s recent military offensive in Gaza, at the Nibras Print shop in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. The shop prints customized, full-color posters and banners...
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