A veteran Islamist fighter claimed responsibility on behalf of al Qaeda for the Algerian hostage crisis, a regional website reported on Sunday, tying the bloody desert siege to France's intervention across the Sahara in Mali. ...
01:21 AM, Jan 21, 2013
Cairo: al Qaeda has selected its longtime No 2 to succeed Osama bin Laden following last month's US commando raid that killed the terror leader, according to a statement posted on Thursday on a website affiliated with the network. Ayman al-Zawahri, who will turn 60 next week, is the son of an upper middle class Egyptian family of doctors and scholars. His father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University's...
12:27 PM, Jun 16, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday that al Qaeda could take over in many parts of the Arabian Peninsula country if he leaves office under a Gulf-brokered deal which he said he has accepted. Saleh has twice backed out of the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) transition deal, most recently on Wednesday, despite diplomatic wrangling by US, Gulf and European officials. But a Yemeni official said Abdullatif al-Zayani,...
07:00 PM, May 21, 2011
Washington: US has refrained from drawing a parallel between 9/11 and the dastardly Mumbai attacks and appeared to be unwilling to support any similar hot pursuit Indian effort as done by the US Special Forces in Pakistan to kill al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. "I don't want to speculate too broadly about an operation that was clearly unique in the history of the US and the history of the...
08:44 AM, May 06, 2011
Washington: Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was shot dead in his hideout by Special US forces in Pakistan, was a mass killer of Muslims and not a martyr as a few people are trying to portray, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. In her remarks to the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Clinton said the State Department is now working on a narrative "that will convince people...
10:35 AM, May 05, 2011
