War On Terror News

Somali-US youth told jihad would be 'fun'

Somali boys chant as they watch hard-line Islamist fighters from Al-Shabab parade during a rally in the streets of Mogadishu. Eight people face terrorism charges in the case of 20 young men missing from Minnesota after allegedly being recruited to fight for an Islamist militia in the country, officials have said.
AFP - Tuesday, November 24

A group of Somali-American youth recruited to fight for an Islamist militia in Somalia were told it would be "fun," court documents have shown. More »

  • Indian PM says Pakistan must reject terrorism

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the world must press Pakistan to turn away from supporting terrorists who continue to target India.

  • Algeria court acquits 2 former Guantanamo inmates

    AP - Monday, November 23

    An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.

  • Liberians mourn UN worker killed in Afghanistan

    AP - Monday, November 23

    Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.

  • Despite fierce public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts decried calls for setting an exit date they say would embolden the Taliban.

    Setting Afghan exit date defeatist: defense panel

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    Despite fierce public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts on Saturday decried calls for setting an exit date they say would embolden the Taliban.

  • Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers keep watch in Kabul on November 18. Police have said thtat Afghan and foreign troops killed 23 Taliban militants in separate operations a day after the president pledged to take responsibility for security in his new five-year term.

    Separate clashes kill 23 Taliban in Afghanistan

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    Afghan and foreign troops killed 23 Taliban militants in separate operations a day after the president pledged to take responsibility for security in his new five-year term, police said Saturday.

  • Ringleader in tower terrorism plot to be sentenced

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices is scheduled to be sentenced.

  • Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg (R) arrives for a meeting with Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite in Vilnius in October. Controversy over secret CIA prisons in Europe came to light again with the allegations that an upscale Lithuanian horseback riding school was secretly used to interrogate Al-Qaeda suspects.

    Lithuanian horse club was CIA 'black site': report

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    Controversy over secret CIA prisons in Europe came to light again with the allegations that an upscale Lithuanian horseback riding school was secretly used to interrogate Al-Qaeda suspects.

  • Pakistani internally displaced tribesmen outside a distribution point in Dera Ismail Khan in October 2009. More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan's latest military offensive against Taliban insurgents in the tribal South Waziristan region, the United Nations said Wednesday.

    Pakistan offensive displaces 268,000 people: UN

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan's latest military offensive against Taliban insurgents in the tribal South Waziristan region, the United Nations said Wednesday.

  • NY ex-lawyer vows to keep fighting terror case

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    A disbarred civil rights lawyer says she'll keep fighting to clear her name even after a federal appeals court in New York upheld her conviction on terrorism charges and ordered her to prison.

  • Al Qaeda Africa wing less a threat to Europe - official

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North African wing is less likely now to carry out attacks in Europe, mainly because of pressure on the group from Algerian security forces, a U.S. counter-terrorism official said on Tuesday.

  • Civilian death toll almost trebled in Afghan attack

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan officials said on Tuesday 14 civilians had been killed by rockets fired by the Taliban into a crowded market a day earlier, almost trebling the original toll given for the attack in the country's northeast.

  • Britain's Brown defends Afghan role

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    Foreign forces in Afghanistan are "disrupting and disabling" Al-Qaeda's leadership, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, in a strong defence of Britain's involvement in the conflict.

  • Thirteen anti-Qaeda tribe members killed in Iraq

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms launched execution-style attacks west of Baghdad on Monday, killing 13 members of a tribe who took up arms against Al-Qaeda, a villager and security official said.

  • Rocket attack kills five Afghan civilians - police

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 17

    KABUL (Reuters) - Five civilians were killed and 28 wounded when Taliban insurgents fired three rockets into a busy market in northeastern Afghanistan Monday, Afghan police said.

  • Obama foes lash out at 9/11 trial plans

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would harm efforts to fight terrorism.

  • Taliban guerrillas bring 'Iraq tactics' to Pakistan

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    Suicide attacks, car bombings, shootings in the capital and fighting in the mountains -- Taliban guerrillas are dragging Pakistan into a war deadlier than in Afghanistan and mimicking the carnage of Iraq.

  • Excerpts from rulings in Guantanamo Bay cases

    AP - Monday, November 16

    Case summaries and excerpts from the opinions by U.S. District Court judges for the 30 terrorism detainees ordered released from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison and the eight denied release since late 2008:

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