Suicide bomber kills 10 in Ramadi, Iraq

RAMADI, Iraq — A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, including four policemen and a young girl, in an attack on a checkpoint near local government offices in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday.
The car bombing, which also wounded 15 people, was the third major assault on the Anbar provincial governor’s office [...]

Pakistan commandos raid kills Arab and Sudan fighters

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — Pakistan commandos raided a private hospital before dawn in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border Thursday, killing four foreign militants and a woman, officials said.
Troops laid siege to the private clinic in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, at 2:00am (2100 GMT) sparking gun battles until around 7:00am (0200 GMT), [...]

Top Al-Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in northwest Pakistan

WASHINGTON — A top Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a drone missile strike in northwest Pakistan, NBC News reported late Thursday, citing unnamed US officials. The officials did not identify the person killed, but did tell NBC that it was not Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

The attack took place in the past days, NBC said, [...]

Pakistan bomb kills 105 as Clinton visits

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Northwest Pakistan plunged into mourning on Thursday after one of the bloodiest attacks in the nation killed 105 people, eclipsing a peace mission by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The carnage caps a month of escalating bloodshed in the nuclear-armed Muslim nation where a full security alert was unable to stop a [...]

Six killed in fresh Iraq violence

BAGHDAD — Six people were killed, including three women, in attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, Iraqi police said, three days after 135 people died in massive bombings in the capital.
Three women were killed and four other people wounded when a magnetic “sticky bomb” affixed to a mini-bus exploded in [...]

Twin blasts rock Islamabad university

ISLAMABAD — Two bomb blasts tore through a university in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, with at least nine people reported injured as paramedics ferried casualties to hospitals, police said.

“It was a bomb blast. It was inside the Islamic university building,” said police official Mohammad Afzal from the emergency response department.
“There was another one a [...]

Five guilty of plotting Australian jihad

SYDNEY — Five Muslim men were Friday found guilty of plotting a jihadist attack using guns and explosives to protest Australia’s involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Prosecutors said the men gathered firearms, chemicals and bomb-making instructions from July 2004 to November 2005, but did not reveal the target of the planned attack.
The Sydney [...]

France arrests nuclear engineer suspected of al-Qaeda link

PARIS — French agents have arrested an engineer working at the CERN nuclear research lab on suspicion of being in contact with the Al-Qaeda militant network and planning attacks, officials said Friday.
“Perhaps we have avoided the worst,” Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told journalists, adding that investigators were trying to establish which targets in “France or [...]

Al-Qaeda focuses on Yemen as launchpad

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaeda has suffered setbacks due to US pressure but its presence in Yemen threatens to turn that country into a dangerous base for training and plotting attacks, a top US counterterrorism official said.
The extremist network has been steadily weakened since its attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, with its haven [...]

U.S. missile strike kills six militants in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Six militants were killed in a US missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, security officials said, in the third such attack on the Taliban’s tribal strongholds in 24 hours.
The unmanned drone targeted the lawless region of North Waziristan, a Taliban bolt-hole where Washington says Islamist fighters are hiding out and plotting [...]