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A man described as "one of al Qaeda's most dangerous members" was arrested in Yemen, the Yemeni military, an embassy official and state-run news agency Saba said.

Yemeni security forces stormed an al-Qaida hide-out Wednesday in a principle militant stronghold in the country's west, setting off clashes, officials said, as a security chief vowed to fight the group's powerful local branch until it was eliminated.

An attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. passenger jet has put a spotlight on what American spy agencies see as an emerging battlefield in Yemen against a rapidly growing hub for al Qaeda.

There is no initial evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet was involved in a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

Federal prosecutors unsealed narcotics and terrorism charges Friday against three West Africans identified as associates of Al Qaeda and a related group.

On the heels of a U.S. announcement of a massive troop surge for Afghanistan, an al Qaeda spokesman Saturday appeared to be trying to improve the group's image in the region with a new audio message in English.

An al-Qaeda sleeper agent is jailed in the US for conspiring to provide material support for terrorism.

Ground troops attack militant positions in South Waziristan, a response to a wave of violence that extremists launched in the past two weeks.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops launched a long-awaited ground offensive into the Taliban and Al Qaeda stronghold of South Waziristan today, beginning what experts say will be the country's most challenging chapter yet in the ongoing war on terror.

Intelligence officials say the terrorist operative who contacted an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a New York attack was ...

France arrests a researcher at Europe's top particle physics lab who is suspected of links to al-Qaeda, officials say.