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US citizens supported Qaeda
20 Jun 2012 7:17 AM ISTTwo US citizens, who had planned to travel to Afghanistan and Iraq to fight for al-Qaeda, have pleaded guilty to providing material and financial...
Taliban strikes Afghan, NATO Kandahar bases
20 Jun 2012 7:13 AM ISTTaliban insurgents struck Afghan and NATO bases in the restive province of Kandahar on Tuesday, after a coalition soldier was killed by attackers in...
We remember, we rebuild: Obama
16 Jun 2012 2:43 PM ISTPresident Barack Obama stopped at the site of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York and inscribed the final beam in the rebuilt World Trade Center...
Yemen takes control of third city
16 Jun 2012 2:41 PM ISTYemeni troops took control of the city of Shuqra on Friday after Al-Qaeda militants pulled out, the third jihadist bastion in the south to fall in the...
Afghan war claimed 1,756 children in 2011
14 Jun 2012 7:58 AM ISTChild casualties in the conflict in Afghanistan rose by more than a quarter last year, the UN said on Wednesday, with an average of nearly five...
Qaeda No. 2 killed?
6 Jun 2012 12:54 PM ISTAl-Qaeda's second in command Abu Yahya al-Libi was the main target of the US drone strike that killed 15 militants in Pakistan's northwest on Monday....
NATO kills Qaeda leader in Afghanistan
30 May 2012 7:00 AM ISTNATO on Tuesday said that al-Qaeda's second in command in Afghanistan had been killed in an air strike near the Pakistani border. The US-led...
No halt to blood and gore
23 May 2012 8:56 AM ISTThe killing of 100 people at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa has brought back deep concerns for both Yemen and the US that...
US vows to hunt out militants
12 May 2012 12:42 PM ISTDays after declaring that it had foiled an attempt by al-Qaeda terrorists in Arabian Peninsula to blow up an American passenger plane, the US has...
'Underwear' bomber a double agent
10 May 2012 10:36 AM ISTThe man ordered by al-Qaeda's Yemen branch to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the suicide...
Families fume as 9/11 mastermind goes on trial
7 May 2012 9:19 AM ISTLee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-defendants tried to...
Secret files of Osama’s associates published
5 May 2012 8:08 PM ISTA list of al Qaeda members first discovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan has been published, disclosing the various fates of the group’s...