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MSNBC
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A landmark study last August by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies described the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area as a de facto al-Qaeda haven in which terrorist leaders were reorganizing for attacks against the West. But Hayden said counterterrorism succe..
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BBC News
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Several thousand foreigners have fled South Africa after days of violent attacks by angry mobs.
Mozambique is laying on special buses, which have taken some 9,000 people home this week, an official said.
Some Zimbabweans are also going home, preferr..
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BBC News
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South African security ministers have been discussing using the army to help stop a wave of attacks on foreigners, which has left at least 23 people dead.
The deployment of troops, which has been demanded by human rights groups and the opposition, coul..
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CNN
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An Iranian official says the government wants the United States to stop its "savage attacks" in Iraq before its envoys hold more talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. "Under the current circumstances and given the U.S. wid..
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MSNBC
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Eight soldiers were killed in a pair of bomb attacks on Monday, the heaviest single day of U.S. casualties since September.
Three of those soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Diyala, a violent province where al-Qaida in Iraq has been active. The fiv..
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CNN
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Suicide bombers killed seven people, including a leading provincial official, in two attacks in and near mosques in Afghanistan on Thursday. Many more were also injured in the bombings in a restive southern provincial seat and the capital of Kabul.
Pol..
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BBC News
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Officials from Kenya's opposition party were behind attacks on members of the president's ethnic group and are planning more, Human Rights watch says.
"We have evidence that ODM politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violenc..
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BBC News
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Rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq are reported to have fallen to their lowest levels for nearly two years.
The US military said such attacks in October fell to 369, half the level during October 2006. This is the third month running of reduced rocket f..
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BBC News
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The president of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq has said his people will defend themselves if Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels based in the region.
Massoud Barzani rejected accusations that his government provided cover for Kurdish Workers Party (PKK..
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Al Jazeera
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At least 57 people have been killed and more than 120 wounded in bomb attacks across Iraq, police have said.
In a mainly Shia district of southwest Baghdad, two car bombs on Wednesday killed about 32 people in one of the deadliest attacks to hit the I..
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Telegraph
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ran has threatened to retaliate with missile attacks if Western forces launch raids against the Islamic state's nuclear programme — putting on a defiant show of military force to back up the message.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addres..
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USA Today
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The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday that a 7-month-old security operation has reduced violence by 50% in Baghdad but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate.
The comments came as relations between the U.S. and Iraq..
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CNN
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Three terror suspects held in Germany planned to carry out "imminent" and "massive" bombs attacks on a U.S. air base and Frankfurt's international airport, according to officials.
They were planning massive attacks," Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms sai..
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BBC News
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Two Somali journalists have been killed in the capital Mogadishu in separate attacks within hours of each other.
The owner of HornAfrik radio and television, Ali Iman Sharmake, died when his car exploded after apparently running over a landmine.
He..
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BBC News
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Britain will not yield despite a sustained threat from people associated with al-Qaeda, Gordon Brown has said after three terror attacks in the UK.
The prime minister was speaking after a burning car driven into Glasgow Airport on Saturday was linked t..
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Al Jazeera
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The attacks came after four Palestinians had been killed in a series of air strikes on Thursday.
The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out the attack on the building it said was used by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades as a meeting place ahead..
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Al Jazeera
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Attacks on people suspected of spying for US forces have escalated over recent months, with several beheadings reported in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal areas.
However, no group has yet claimed resposibility for the hotel blast.
Local televisio..
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Washington Post
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Attacks in Iraq involving lethal weapons that U.S. officials say are made in Iran hit a record high last month, despite efforts to crack down on networks supplying the armor-piercing weapons known as explosively formed projectiles, according to a senior U..
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Yahoo News
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Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up more than 25 percent last year, killing 40 percent more people than in 2005, particularly in
Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds, the State Department said Monday.
Among..
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FOX News
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Four U.S. soldiers were killed in separate attacks in the capital this weekend, including three in a single roadside bombing, the military said Monday, pushing the death toll past 100 in the deadliest month so far this year.
Both attacks occurred in ea..
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