Al-Qaida militants take over village in southeast Yemen

Four Abu Sayyaf militants have been killed in a clash amid an offensive against al-Qaida-linked gunmen.

SANAA, Yemen -- A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers dead.The official said the Friday attack in the mountainous al-Thalib ...

TORONTO — A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case. During a hearing Thursday Chiheb Esseghaier ...

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed 5 al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials. The officials said the attack took place around dawn in an area called Deyqa in Abyan ...

Newly released video is second in two days to show executions by self-described Islamist fighters. Fighters of the Al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by Syrian President Bashar Assad's ...

ADEN, Yemen, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Suspected al-Qaida gunmen shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer on Friday night in the southeastern province of Hadramout, a government official told Xinhua Saturday. Abdullah Rabaky, a colonel at the military ...

ADEN, Yemen, May 18 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. drone strike killed at least five members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot in the southern province of Abyan on Saturday, a government official told Xinhua. "About five terrorists were killed when a drone ...

Iraqi al-Qaida fighters' goal is not toppling Assad, but the anti-Western jihad of the organization's leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Nusra Front fighters Photo: reuters BEIRUT - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar Assad, ...

A purported new issue of an English-language al-Qaida magazine, linked to the Boston terrorist attacks, has been posted on the web but its contents were hacked. The 'Inspire' magazine, produced by al-Qaida's Yemeni affiliate, al-Qaida in the Arabian ...