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More than 40 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded in Iraq after a string of explosions struck towns and cities across the country on Tuesday.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot and killed an American teacher in Yemen Sunday, police said, and an al Qaeda-linked Musim extremist group claimed responsibility.

Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl who was abducted and beheaded by Taliban militants in Pakistan, has been honored with the prestigious 2011 A.M. Turing Award for artificial intelligence.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government, treading the path of Arab Spring that rocked several Middle Eastern nations.

Documents obtained by U.S. Special Forces reveal the terrorist leader believed the U.S. would be drawn into a crisis and be ripe for attack if the presidency transferred to Vice President Joe Biden.

Slain al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden plotted to kill President Barack Obama because he believed Vice President Joe Biden was ill-prepared to lead the country, according to soon-to-be released declassified documents first obtained by The Washington Post.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the Obama administration has failed to live up to goal of being the most transparent administration ever during an executive meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

American sergeant who shot dead 16 Afghan villagers while they slept flown back to US base.

Forty percent of Americans say the slaughter of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier had weakened their support for the war, a poll showed Wednesday.

The U.S. staff sergeant who killed over a dozen Afghan villagers this week has been flown out of Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.

Droukdel, an engineer by training, reportedly fought in Afghanistan where he received bomb-making training.

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron will spend two days together, doing fun things like watching college basketball, but also getting serious and talking about Syria.

The West clashed with Russia at the United Nations Security Council over Syria Monday, as activists and the Damascus government traded blame for a massacre of civilians in the city of Homs.

In a June speech outlining his timetable for U.S. troops' exit, President Barack Obama vowed that the withdrawal would come at a time the United States found itself in a position of strength in Afghanistan.

The Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 civilians killed in southern Afghanistan during a shocking shooting spree perpetrated by an American soldier.

Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.

Saudi Crown Prince Nayef, a pivotal figure who supervises the daily affairs of the kingdom, is undergoing routine tests at the renowned Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Saudi television and hospital sources said on Friday.

During a panel discussion on Al Jazeera English, the former spokesperson referred to a WikiLeaks cable that proves Yemen was cooperating with a U.S. effort to locate and kill al-Awlaki before the Justice Department authorized the al Qaeda operatives assassination.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) issued a statement Thursday saying family members of soldiers captured by the group should continue pressuring the Yemeni government to cooperate in a prisoner swap.

Pasha ran ISI for 3 1/2 years, a period that included the secret -- and, in Pakistan, controversial -- raid by U.S. commandos on al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's compound.

The United States will hand over the control of all prisons in Afghanistan to Afghan security forces within six months.