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More than 70 people were killed as Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels hit the centre of the capital with a truck bomb.

Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on Tuesday, killing scores of people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday it would be very difficult for al Qaeda to launch another major attack on the United States, as its leadership has been decimated.

The killing of terrorist mastermind Anwar Al-Awlaki, in Yemen last week, by the United States has raised legal questions, with many international law experts saying that the ideal course of action would have been to bring Awlaki to a U.S. court.

NATO captured Haji Mali Khan Tuesday in an operation in Afghanistan in the Jani Khel district in Paktika Province.

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.