Al-Qaeda

At least 30 people were injured in clashes in Tiret, Algeria, after the funeral of a man who set himself on fire, prompting speculation the country could be following in the footstep of Tunisia.

Four men admitted to plot to blow up London Stock Exchange in the heart of the capital.

Obama was on an hour-long video chat on Google’s social networking site Google+ “hangout”.

American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were working for the Danish Deming Group when they were taken hostage by Somali pirates.

The Taliban said the soldiers were killed to avenge the killings of their comrades.

Actor Mark Wahlberg has apologised over comments saying he could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

In view of intelligence inputs which warned that Sami Mohamed Ali al-Fadli, 20, may launch an attack either on a UK location or on an aircraft bound for the country, Home Secretary Theresa May ordered a ban on the terror suspect.

Suicide bombers kill at least 10 people and wound dozens in attack on police bus in Syrian capital of Damascus.

Lebanon politicians turn on defence minister Fayez Ghosn over infiltration claims and accuse him of doing Bashar al-Assad's dirty work.

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.

According to Google Zeitegesit's 2011 list of the fastest rising people searches for the year, American singer Rebecca Black leads the way, followed by American television star Ryan Dunn and British socialite Pippa Middleton.

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