This wanted poster released by the U.S. Department of State Rewards for Justice program shows Hamza bin Laden. (U.S. Department of State Rewards for Justice via AP, File) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — ...

The market at Jaar, a small city in Abyan province in southern Yemen, is on a filthy, dusty road strewn with garbage, plastic bottles, cans and rotten food. Plastic bags fly on the hot wind and feral ...

It seems a simple question. After all, "al-Qaida" is a term much bandied about by the public, politicians and commentators. Indeed, it's now one of the best-known organizations in the world. Yet there ...

The shadowy group arose from the ranks of Arab volunteers who flocked to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invaders in the early 1980s. Afghanistan had become a hot front in the Cold war contest between ...

The death of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. airstrike is likely to test the terror group’s resolve and coherence – and possibly strain long-crafted ...

A year ago Tuesday, Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan and may have fundamentally changed al-Qaida as we know it. The Obama administration's top counterterrorism chief, ...

As its losses mount in Iraq, will a less potent Islamic State merge with its precursor, al-Qaida? That speculation ramped up this week after Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi told Reuters he had ...

Twenty years after 9/11, 33 years after it was first conceived, and against all the odds, the terrorist group survives In the summer of 1988, a dozen or so men gathered in the sweltering Pakistani ...

Three experts discuss details of possible threats posed by the al-Qaida terrorist network. The apprehension of a man accused of plotting a dirty bomb attack on the United States has raised fresh ...

Seventeen years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida conducted the most destructive terrorist attack in history. In other words, al-Qaida should not have survived the 17 years since 9/11. Much of the ...

One of the looming questions ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is just how close the U.S. is to defeating the group that carried them out. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden knew the ...

Al-Qaida or its affiliates are active in these countries. The central terrorist organization al-Qaida is in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But its affiliates of all sorts -- from loosely ...