Diplomats: Al-Qaeda Involvement Fuels Efforts to Resolve Syria War | ‘Friends of Syria’ nations fret Nusra’s rise
Al-Qaeda Attempting a Comeback in Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda "is attempting a comeback in Afghanistan's mountainous east," according to the Associated Press, in yet another example of how 11 years of war have failed to accomplish its most basic aims. The news that elements of al-Qaeda, notably, distinct from the...
Obama Orders Drones, Special Ops on Standby to Kill Benghazi Attack Suspects
President Obama has ordered drones to fly over northern Africa and has put special operations strike forces on standby, readied for orders to kill suspects as soon as investigators say they've identified those responsible for the attack on the US Consulate in...
US Official: Military Action Needed in Mali
A top US official told the Associated Press that military action will be needed to eliminate radical Islamists from the haven they've developed in northern Mali. Johnnie Carson, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told reporters that the...
Clinton Admits Attack on Consulate in Libya Was Al-Qaeda
US: Libya Consulate Attack Was Al-Qaeda | Clinton admitted it publicly after three weeks
Al-Qaeda Chief’s Brother Offers to Broker Peace Deal
Al-Qaeda Chief’s Brother Offers to Broker Peace Deal | 10-year truce laid out in broad strokes in proposal
Al-Qaeda Infiltrating Syrian Opposition, With US Support
Al-Qaeda militants and other Sunni extremists are becoming a greater and greater part of the conflict in Syria, just as the US officially announced it was abandoning any pretense of a diplomatic approach in favor of toppling the regime through proxy rebel groups. "The...
Al-Qaeda Website Posts Video of ‘Dead’ Al-Libi
An Islamist website published a video message on Tuesday from Abu Yahya al-Libi, the high-level al-Qaeda member that Washington supposedly killed in a drone strike for at least the second time, although it was unclear when the message was recorded. Obama...
US Hacks Yemeni Web Sites in Propaganda Campaign
The State Department recently carried out a counter-propaganda campaign on Web sites being used by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, challenging the anti-American narratives with others about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
Bin Laden Documents Disprove Claims of Iran-Qaeda Connection
Al-Qaeda's relationship with the government of Iran was openly hostile as revealed by recently declassified documents, contrary to hysterical and baseless American claims of an Iran-Qaeda connection. In an attempt to incriminate the Iranian regime and rally support...