Search results for ‘al Qaeda’
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Al-Qaeda member held in Britain
An alleged member of al-Qaeda, thought to be part of the group blamed for the plane bomb plot, is being held in the UK as the government says more will be done to target terrorism overseas.
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Yemen’s most wanted al-Qaeda plane bomb suspects
Channel 4 News examines the backgrounds of two wanted terrorists linked to the Yemen cargo plane bomb plot and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Al-Qaeda's Coming Home
It seems al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has just pulled off a spectacular coup and scared us all ahead of Halloween, writes Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman.
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Cargo plane explosives ‘show al-Qaeda weakness’
The explosives found on two cargo planes heading to the US from Yemen is deeply worrying, but also shows al-Qaeda’s weakness, writes former Cobra Intelligence Group chairman Colonel Richard Kemp.
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Suicide bomber kills at least 32 people at beach hotel in Somalia
Police in Somalia say at least 32 people were killed and 63 others injured in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital Mogadishu.
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Inside Al Shabaab: The extremist group trying to seize Somalia
For more than fifteen years the extremist group Al Shabaab has been fighting a bloody insurgency in Somalia.
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France to withdraw troops from Mali after nine years
In another sign of geo-political change, President Macron has announced his intention to withdraw French troops from Mali.
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Ethiopia’s border fight: The war against al-Shabaab
While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east.
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Taliban victory increases risk terrorists will seize Pakistan and its nuclear weapons, John Bolton says
John Bolton was a military advisor to President George W Bush when the decision to invade Afghanistan was taken.
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Taliban ‘empowered’ by American cooperation, says former US Assistant Secretary of Defence
We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.
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Taliban have already started their revenge, says former Afghan ambassador to UK
We spoke to Ahmad Wali Massoud, a former Afghan ambassador to the UK. His brother, Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
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Trump and Biden are ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’ on Afghanistan withdrawal, says John Bolton
Ambassador John Bolton served as US ambassador to the UN under President George W Bush and as national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
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Taliban is ‘not the same Taliban as the past’, says author Abdullah Anas
We spoke to Abdullah Anas. He’s a former mujahideen, who fought alongside Osama bin Laden against the Russians, but split with him when bin Laden formed Al-Qaeda.
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Is Iran really ‘the world’s leading state sponsor of terror’?
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
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FactCheck: Assad’s implausible claims about chemical weapons
President Assad contradicted previous statements on Khan Sheikhun made by his allies in Moscow and members of his own government.
