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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.

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.

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.

An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior Al Qaeda operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

The young Afghan immigrant at the center of an expanding investigation holds the key to unlocking the details of an alleged bomb plot that authorities believe is the first Al Qaeda-linked terrorist operation on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement and intelligence officials said Sunday.

Secret CIA program to kill terrorist leaders was outsourced in 2004 to security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted scrutiny, officials say.