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President Barack Obama on Friday hailed the killing of American-born militant Anwar al-Awlaki as a tribute to years of counterterrorism cooperation with Yemen and proof that al Qaeda and its allies will find no safe haven anywhere in the world.

In a letter sent to Congress last Friday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States intends to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan next year. Obama claimed his administration has reversed the Taliban's momentum in the Central Asian country and that there has been improvement in the training of Afghan security forces.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and one of the most influential al-Qaeda operatives wanted by the U.S., was killed Friday in an airstrike in northern Yemen, authorities said

The assassination of radical al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, has revived a debate about the limits of the Obama administration's authority to hunt and kill terrorists abroad.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda, was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Friday, U.S. officials said, removing a global terrorist high on a U.S. wanted list.

Anwar-al Awlaki, an Al Qaeda affiliate considered a major threat to security in the United States has been killed in Yemen, U.S officials have announced.

This morning, the death of terror boss Anwar al-Awlaki was reported by Yemen officials.

Anwar al-Awlaki, one of most wanted terrorists of al Qaeda on a U.S. target list, has been killed in Yemen, according to both Yemeni and U.S. officials.

A high-ranking member of al-Qaeda and a radical Islamic cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted and killed in Khashef town of Yemen's Jawf province, a statement from the country's foreign press office said.

Reswan Ferdaus believed undercover FBI agents were Al Qaeda recruiters

Al-Qaida voiced its opinion via its English language magazine Inspire, in an editorial which claimed that Ahmadinejad might have been jealous of Iran's inability to attack the United States itself.

China and Pakistan have two very important similarities: a common enemy in India and fears over growing U.S. influence in South Asia.

Over the past decade, more than 200 people have died in alleged attacks by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a militant group connected to al-Qaeda.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's United Nations speech on Thursday angered a number of world leaders, especially the delegates from the United States, who walked out of the General Assembly while Ahmadinejad soliloquized.

Singer Tony Bennett apologized on Wednesday for controversial comments he made in a radio interview that suggested the United States bore blame for provoking the September 11 attacks.

The Obama administration is constructing a network of drone strike bases in Africa and the Arabian peninsula as its broadening campaign against Al Qaeda affiliates reaches increasingly into Yemen and Somalia.

Her husband, David Tebbutt, 58, was killed during the attack.

Courts in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities over the summer which left 32 people dead, a government website said.

The Kabul attack is now over, but the Middle East and Arab worlds are still overflowing with violence, social unrest and international tension. Here is the round up of news from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

New al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri voiced support in an Internet video for popular revolts shaking the Middle East, saying Arabs no longer feared the United States 10 years after the country was targeted by the militant network.

Somali security forces briefly detained two Turkish aid workers on Tuesday after they delivered food to famine victims in an area near the capital controlled by rebels, officials said on Tuesday.