Al Qaeda

NAIROBI, Kenya—A U.S. airstrike killed the intelligence chief of Somali terror group al-Shabab, Somalia's intelligence service said Tuesday. Abdishakur is the name of the slain leader, who is also known ...

The U.S. and NATO formally withdrew from Afghanistan after 13 years of war left the nation still riven ...

A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, who had a $3 million bounty on his head, surrendered ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday leading to ...

BEIRUT—The search for a negotiated settlement to the Syrian civil war is gaining steam, as President Bashar Assad's ...

WASHINGTON—At times, waterboarding rendered al-Qaeda terror suspect Abu Zubaydah hysterical. But later, a message to CIA headquarters described ...

Almost a month ahead of President Obama's visit to India, U.S. and Indian security agencies are putting their ...

SANAA, Yemen—Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels' checkpoint and a house south of ...

Stratfor Managing Editor Ben Sheen and Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton discuss the possible repercussions to foreign ...

Senate officials on Tuesday accused the CIA of mistreating Al Qaeda prisoners with methods amounting to torture and ...

Syrian government forces repelled an attack by the Islamic State group on a major air base in the ...

The three young Jordanians didn't start out as extremists. They grew up in mainstream Muslim families. But they ...

Pakistani soldiers killed a top al-Qaida operative Saturday who was indicted in the U.S. for his alleged involvement ...

Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen threatened an American hostage who was the target of a rescue attempt by U.S. ...

When Kenya sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight Islamic extremists, the al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab threatened to ...

Islamic State militants invaded Iraq's west almost a year ago and overran the nation's second-largest city in June, ...

An Iraqi official denied Wednesday that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ...

Lebanese authorities detained a woman and young boy believed to be the wife and son of the reclusive ...

President Barack Obama has quietly approved guidelines in recent weeks to allow the Pentagon to target Taliban fighters ...

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gazes across Damascus from his palace on Mount Qasioun, he can be grateful ...

The United Arab Emirates designated the Muslim Brotherhood and dozens of other Islamist groups as terrorist organizations on ...

During a key battle in the rugged mountains of a northern province earlier this month, U.S.-backed Syrian rebels ...

America's top military leader arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a previously unannounced visit, his first since a ...

The Pentagon warned Congress on Thursday that the long, drawn-out military campaign against Islamic State militants is just ...

Two Syrian opposition figures say the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda's branch met last week and agreed to ...

US-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria have killed more than 860 ...

Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children Sunday, ...