Al-Qaeda

Spiritual guide promotes worldwide meditation event to mark 25th anniversary of September 11 attack

Michal Lichtman, a spiritual guide who works with people on developing awareness and what she describes as their “inner light,” has proposed an international meditation to be held on Friday.

THE IDEA for this year’s global meditation grew out of an event Michal Lichtman organized in Jerusalem last year as part of her initiative, Migdalor – Growing Light.
A security officer stands guard on the street following a mutineers' attack on the airport and the presidency in Niamey, Niger, August 29, 2026.

Niger says it regains control of airbase after soldiers mutiny

(Illustrative) A drone picture shows a suburb following the attack on the international airport in Niamey, Niger, on January 30, 2026.

Mutinous soldiers attack airport, presidency in Niger capital, sources say

 THE TWIN Towers burn

Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ordered to stand trial at Guantanamo in 2028


The US must designate Qatar as a state sponsor of terrorism - opinion

Qatar has a long record of harboring and funding terrorist organizations. It's time the US holds them accountable.

 PHOTO: IRAN’S FOREIGN Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (left) meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, last month.

Australian doctor freed by al Qaeda after 7 years in captivity

The doctor and his wife were seized in January 2016 from Djibo, near Burkina Faso's border with Mali, where they have operated a 120-bed clinic for more than 40 years.

FILE PHOTO: Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area of Burkina Faso, March 3, 2019.

Belgium arrests suspected al Qaeda member over Iraq attacks

The attacks were carried out using car bombs against several government buildings among others, the statement said.

A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a st

Even with Iran-Saudi deal, the war in Yemen is far from over - opinion

It is time for the US to discuss the war in Yemen as a Yemeni matter and listen to the Yemeni parties more than the regional powers.

 A MEMBER of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) stands at a checkpoint in Aden, in 2021.

Al Qaeda leader in Yemen killed in airstrike attributed to US - report

The target was identified as Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, a senior figure in Al Qaeda's proxy in the Arabian Peninsula.

 Shi'ite Houthi rebels drive a patrol truck past an Ansar al-Sharia flag painted on the side of a hill, along a road in Almnash, the main stronghold of Ansar al-Sharia, the local wing of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Rada, Yemen November 22, 2014

Somali lawmaker to TML: Gov't making gains in battling al-Shabab

Secretary of the Somali Defense Committee Ahmed Abdi Koshin says military offensive has 'successfully dislodged' the al-Qaeda-linked terror organization from many parts of the country.

A Somali security officer walks at the entrance of Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group militant attack in Mogadishu, Somalia August 20, 2022

Can Somalia finally defeat Al-Shabab extremists? - analysis

Al-Shabab is a vicious organization that has worked with Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups and is often behind horrid terror attacks in Somalia.

A Somali security officer walks at the entrance of Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group militant attack in Mogadishu, Somalia August 20, 2022

Jihadist recruiters prey on migrants to Europe 

Recruiters target vulnerable individuals and relocate cells created in Africa.

Taliban fighters drive a car on a street following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US strike over the weekend, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 2, 2022.

Presumed-dead Al Qaeda leader narrates newly released video

The recording was undated and the transcript did not clearly point towards a time frame for when it could have been made.

 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan in August, 2022 according to US officials, appears in an undated FBI Most Wanted poster.

'I don't know why I didn't die that night,' Mike's Place suicide bombing survivor tells their story

One of the survivors of the tragic suicide bombing at Mike's Place Tel Aviv in 2003 talks about his miracle of surviving.

Memorial plaque to the victims of the "Mike's Place" suicide bombing that killed three victims in 2003