Al Qaeda threatening US with more terror attacks

Al Qaeda’s most dangerous franchise is threatening the U.S. with renewed attempts at homeland terror attacks, while urging radicalized Americans to launch strikes like the Boston bombings and poison mail cases (more…)

1,045 killed 2,397 wounded in Iraq in May

A wave of violence in Iraq that has raised fears of a return to all-out sectarian strife killed more than 1,000 people in May, the United Nations said.

Over the course of the month, 1,045 people were killed and 2,397 wounded in unrest across the country, it said. (more…)

Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. ‘war on terror’

Twelve years after the “war on terror” began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants.

In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign (more…)

Syria’s rebels take over oilfields once belonging to Assad

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing is helping to finance its activities by selling the product of oilfields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa (more…)

Egypt foils terror plot. 3 militants arrested

Egyptian security forces have arrested three militants with ties to Al Qaeda who were planning terrorist attacks in Egyptian cities and against a foreign embassy, theinterior minister said Saturday.

A Western official said the Egyptians had privately identified the embassy as the United States Embassy in Cairo. (more…)

Al-Qaeda and Iran ‘agree on the doctrine of jihad’

Given the ideological differences between the Sunni militant group al-Qaeda and the theocratic Shia government in Iran, recent allegations that the two groups had conspired in a foiled attack in Canada struck many observers as odd. (more…)

Al Qaeda threaten to set Beirut on fire over Hezbollah fighters in Syria

The al-Qaeda affiliated Al Nusra Front on Wednesday warned Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to withdraw Hezbollah forces from Syria or Beirut will be attacked.
“He must take immediate measures to prevent Hezbollah interference in the internal affairs of Syria, or Beirut will be set on fire within the next 24 hours”, the extremist group said in a communique published on jihadist websites. (more…)

Terror plot foiled in Canada, linked to Al Qaeda in Iran

Canadian police and intelligence agencies have made two arrests in connection with a planned major terrorist attack on a Via Rail passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area. Two suspects are in custody, one from Ontario and one from Quebec, following an RCMP counter-terrorism investigation.

At an afternoon news conference, the RCMP named the suspects as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, and said they were linked to al-Qaeda in Iran (more…)

AL Nusra front bomb targets Hezbollah in Lebanon

A bomb was discovered overnight Tuesday in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Beirut’s Hay al-Sellom with a message targeting Hezbollah, MTV television station.

MTV report added that it bore markings signed by Al-Nusra Front and targeting the Shiite group. (more…)

Syria’s Nusra pledges allegiance to Qaeda’s Zawahri

BEIRUT , Lebanon – Syria’s al-Nusra Front formally pledged allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, according to an audio tape posted online on Wednesday.

Abu Mohammad al-Golani, leader of the Syrian group, said: “The sons of Nusra Front renew their pledge (of allegiance) (more…)