TERRORISM

Militants mourning Osama bin Laden have stepped up threats against targets in the West, taking their cue from an al Qaeda statement that followers in the United States and Europe are perfectly placed to strike.

Recently departed Osama bin Laden wanted to change the name of his terrorist outfit al-Qaeda to something else for “marketing reasons,” according to a report in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

With a 30,000-person troop withdrawal now scheduled, how will politics in Afghanistan and Pakistan be affected?

Following are President Obama's remarks on the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan as prepared for delivery. The speech took place at the White House in Washington, D.C. on June 22, 2011, at 8 p.m. ET.

Up to 40, perhaps many more, al-Qaeda militants have escaped from a jail in southern Yemen, according to prison officials.

Today it is expected that President Barack Obama will order 10,000 US Troops back home from Afghanistan.

Insurgent attacks in Iraq are on the rise. On Tuesday, a provincial government building was attacked by extremists.

The United States has formally dropped criminal charges against for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. military raid in Pakistan last month, BBC News reported.

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan has dismissed all criminal charges against slain al-Qaeda chieftan Osama bin Laden.

The new Al Qaeda boss has been in hiding since 2001. Will the United States locate him soon?

Within hours of the Al Qaeda's announcement appointing Ayman al-Zawahiri as Osama Bin Laden's successor, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that the terror network's new chief is no match for his predecessor.

Washington’s top military officer had his own announcement, following the one that declared Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s longtime deputy, new al-Qaeda chief: We will hunt you down and kill you, too, BBC News reported.

The two Al Qaeda leaders' relationship goes back over 30 years.

72-year-old Abu Baker Bashir, a radical Indonesian cleric, was sentenced to prison for his involvement with a terrorist organization

A look into the life of the new head of Al Qaeda and FBI's most wanted man.

Osama bin Laden's long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken over as the new Al Qaeda chief after the killing of the group's founder and leader, Osama Bin Laden, an Islamist website reported on Thursday.

According to an Al Qaeda-affiliated website, Egypt-born Ayman al-Zawahri has succeeded Osama bin laden as head of the terror network. Al-Zawahri, who will turn 60 next week, had been bin Laden's second in command before the latter was killed in a US Commando operation in Pakistan, last month. Zawahri had declared, earlier this month, the organizations decision to go ahead with the campaign against the United States and its allies, in response to bin Laden's death.

Al-Qaeda has declared Ayman al- Zawahiri as its new leader after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in Pakistan Last month.

Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil, a paramilitary leader and bin-Laden associate, is living in Islamabad

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Tanzania to honor the victims of the embassy bombings from 1998, a day after the alleged mastermind of those attacks was reportedly killed in Somalia.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa's most wanted al Qaeda operative and the mastermind behind the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which killed 240 people, was killed during a shootout in Somalia.