Al Qaida

Explained: How Ayman al-Zawahiri's habit of sitting on balcony led to his death

Years of efforts by intelligence operatives under four presidents to track al-Zawahiri has paid off as the US successfully killed the Al-Qaeda chief in a drone strike

Ayman al-Zawahiri dead: Killing of Al Qaeda leader is long-sought 'justice', says Joe Biden

The president said in an evening address from the White House that US intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahri to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding out with his family

Al-Zawahri killed: Surgeon who went on path of Islamic Jihad from Cairo clinic to top of Al Qaeda

While bin Laden came from a privileged background in a prominent Saudi family, al-Zawahri had the experience of an underground revolutionary

China places hold on US, India move to list Pakistani terrorist under UNSC sanctions

Pakistan-based militant Abdul Rehman Makki is a US-designated terrorist and brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed

Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest known mass execution in it's modern history

The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced Saturday's executions, saying they included those 'convicted of various crimes, including the murdering of innocent men, women and children'

Lars Vilks, threatened Swedish artist, reportedly dead in road accident

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since his 2007, was threatened for his sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body

US set to declassify documents related to 11 September attacks in next six months

President Joe Biden has signed an order directing the justice department and other executive branch agencies to begin a declassification review

US 'realistic' but sees opportunity for Afghan peace, says Mike Pompeo after America signs historic deal with Taliban

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US is “realistic” about the peace deal it signed with the Taliban, but is "seizing the best opportunity for peace in a generation"

US, Taliban will sign peace deal today ending 19-yr-long Afghanistan war; Mike Pompeo to be present during signing of agreement

The agreement mapping out a plan for peace follows months of negotiations between the US and the Taliban that have broken down before. The Pentagon has said for months that it is poised to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan to 8,600.

29 Turkish soldiers killed in airstrike by Syrian forces in Idlib; offence marks escalation in direct conflict between both countries

An airstrike by Syrian government forces killed 29 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, a Turkish official said Friday, marking the largest death toll for Turkey in a single day since it first intervened in Syria in 2016.