Al-Qaeda

Eight hardliners sentenced to death for 2015 murder of secular publisher Faysal Arefin Dipon.

Bangladesh foreign ministry statement says ‘there is no evidence of any presence of al-Qaeda’ in the South Asian nation.

Two decades after invading Iraq for alleged links to al-Qaeda, the US now says Iran is the armed group’s ‘new home’.

Group to Support Islam and Muslims says it ‘detonated an explosive device’ as French armoured vehicle passed by.

Abu Obaida Yusuf al-Annabi is a well-known veteran among the armed groups wreaking havoc in North Africa.

Algerian Abu Obaida Yusuf al-Annabi has been on the US ‘international terrorist’ blacklist since September 2015.

Tehran says Washington and Israel are trying to advance their ‘information war’ against Iran.

New York Times, citing intelligence officials, says Abu Muhammad al-Masri was gunned down by two men on a motorbike.

National Directorate of Security says Mohammad Hanif, originally from Karachi, also had ‘close relations’ with Taliban.

Swiss foreign ministry says Beatrice Stoeckli, kidnapped four years ago by alleged al-Qaeda fighters, has been killed.

Soumaila Cisse and Sophie Petronin among four hostages released by suspected al-Qaeda-linked fighters.

Desperate families in the Sahelian country are plagued by a double burden that has left many displaced and destitute.

Foreign minister says Khartoum will soon compensate victims of the al-Qaeda attacks in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

Refugees on the move again after dozens of gunmen stormed Intikane camp in attack that left at least three dead.