Militants kill Somali prosecutor, threaten more

AQIM leader Abu Musab Abd al-Wadoud (Source al-Andalus Media) After more than two months of the French-led operation against Islamic militants in northern Mali, there are signs that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is starting to feel the ...

Musab Al Mahruqi, Chief Executive Officer, Orpic Muscat: Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) plans to conduct a study for a proposed steam cracker plant to produce polypropylene and polyethylene as part of its business ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates U.S. intelligence agencies have preliminarily concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. The chemical in ...

Abu Ubaydah Abdullah al Adam, a senior al Qaeda leader who serves as the intelligence chief for the terror group, is reported to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. The report is unconfirmed, and al Qaeda has not ...

Jemal Oukacha (a.k.a. Yahya Abu al-Hammam) is a new commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). As the Emir of the Sahara, Oukacha has control over a brigade of AQIM fighters responsible for an area stretching from the Azawad region of ...

The emir of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), Abu Bakr al Baghdadi (also known as Abu Dua), has announced a new brand for his organization's efforts: the "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant." The new name replaces all previous brands used by al Qaeda's ...

Michael Moynihan on his week in the online terror underworld. IN the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, early evidence gathered by investigators suggested that the two suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were rabid lone wolves who learned ...

(New York) Government security branches in Raqqa city hold documents and potential physical evidence indicating that detainees were arbitrarily detained and tortured there while the city was under government control. Human Rights Watch researchers ...

Is the United States safe enough? That is the fundamental question being asked by the public, policymakers, and members of the Obama Administration after the Boston bombing. What shape is al Qaeda in now and how does it affect those of us living in ...