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White House agrees in principle to release Taliban leaders as part of peace negotiations.

More than 40 people were killed in twin suicide bombings that targeted two government buildings in Damascus, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad said.

Al-Qaida terrorists suspected of targeting security buildings in Damascu, the government days.

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Florence far-right gunman Gianluca Casseri, who shot dead two Africans Tuesday, and Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik may have more in common than expected, experts on far-right movements point out.

Two wives of Osama bin Laden, who have been held in Pakistan following the raid in May that killed the former head of al Qaeda, are set to return to their homeland of Saudi Arabia.

Hezbollah has revealed the names of 10 people who have been working undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency at the American Embassy in Beirut.

At least 16 prisoners, including members of the Islamic terror group al-Qaeda, have escaped from a jail in southern Yemen.

The group in the Islamic Magreb has also released the pictures of the victims who it claims are in their captivity.

Boy, 14, managed to flee from the Al-Qaeda linked group.

Al Qaeda has called on Libyan fighters not to surrender their weapons to the National Transitional Council (NTC), as it warned them they would "return to slavery".

A Yemeni woman was killed during a protest march against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, despite tanks and armoured vehicles having withdrawn under a ceasefire deal, witnesses said.

A suicide bomber has attacked a shrine in Afghan capital Kabul during the Shia holy day of Ashura.

Muammar Gaddafi's daughter Aisha has this week reiterated calls for the overthrow of the Libyan transitional government. Is she positioning herself to be the leader of a Libyan counter revolution?

A resident of New York has been arrested on suspicion of planning to bomb targets, including police cars and post offices.

Two British terror suspects have been reportedly killed in an attack by U.S. military drones, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The new head of Al-Qaeda has released a video in which he describes the late Osama Bin Laden as "tender" and "kind".

A Malian man faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine in a bid to fund the activities of Al-Qaeda and FARC guerrilla fighters in Columbia, US prosecutors said.

Three Norwegians, linked to al Qaeda, accused of plotting to bomb to a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in an Oslo court.

Israel has offered to help Kenya secure its borders in a bid to fight off the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has caused havoc in the region, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office says.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that he will step down within 90 days of an agreement with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council