TERRORISM

Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in the Arabian Peninsula, Said al-Shihri, and six others were killed in a missile strike in Yemen's Hadramawt province Monday, the U.S. and Yemeni officials said. The missile was fired from a U.S.-operated unmanned drone.

Nigerian police are conducting 24-hour surveillance of all telecom installations after the terrorist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a recent spate of attacks on mobile phone towers in the north.

In May 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed in a compound in Abbottabad, a garrison town not far from the capital Islamabad.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that his government has entered into "exploratory talks" with the Farc rebels in hopes of securing peace talks and ending nearly five decades of conflict.

The Nigerian government has announced 'back-channel' talks with terrorist group Boko Haram, but whether this will actually accomplish anything remains to be seen.

Norwegian news portal VG Nett reported Muslim extremist terrorist group Ansar al-Sunna has threatened the Norwegian government with an attack similar to 9-11.

Fox News revealed the name of a SEAL Team 6 member who had written a book about the killing of Osama bin Laden. "No Easy Day" was written under the pseudonym Mark Owen to protect the retired SEAL and his family.

British Standard Chartered Bank, which had been accused by New York state's top banking regulator of engaging in illegal money-laundering on behalf of the Iranian regime in an explosive legal filing last week, id settling charges for a fine of $340 million.

The posters added: “This land belongs to Allah and we will make sure that nothing against His will happens here.”

Researchers have developed an algorithm that can track something - information, contaminants, influence - as it spreads through online and offline networks, back to its original source.

It's new, it's got a scary name, it will make policing New York easier, and it's going to be marketed for profit: Meet the "Domain Awareness System"

Citing reputation and legal risk, several brokers downgrade their recommendations of British bank Standard Chartered Tuesday. But one broker's suggestion stood out from the rest

Hours after a lone gunman opened fire at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek on Sunday, federal investigators are considering the attack to be a case of domestic terrorism, based on the triggerman's background and the tattoos on his body.

However, authorities did not reveal what specific targets the suspects were interested in.

Two car bombs killed at least 19 people today in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood.

The British banking giant announced it was earmarking $700 million for laundering roughly $30 billion in drug and terrorism money around the world.

Amid reports that Islamic fundamentalists are trying to hijack the Syrian revolution, which have raised concerns among U.S. intelligence and Iraqi officials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed Washington's position over the Damascus bombing that killed several top Syrian officials, as "a direct whitewashing of terrorism."

The Islamic State of Iraq, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, said it is honoring the month of Ramadan with “a new blessed foray” of violence in the country, claiming responsibility for Monday’s attacks that killed at least 116, wounded at least 300.

U.S. officials said Thursday the suicide bomber responsible for a deadly attack on Israeli vacationers in Bulgaria was a member of a Hezbollah cell that was operating in the country and looking for such targets, backing Israel’s assertions.

Seven died and a further 34 were injured in the blast which ripped through the bus in the tourist town of Burgas, Bulgaria.

Israel accused Iran of carrying out a bomb attack that killed six people on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport Wednesday, and vowed a stern response to Iranian terror.