Al-Qaida

Police search the home of a suspected gunman who was shot dead in Texas after attacking a controversial event showing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, organised by an anti-Islamic group.

Several Belgian citizens arrested in Greece may be linked to terror plot as hundreds of troops are deployed to protect high-risk sites across Belgium.

Armed Shia militants belonging to Yemen’s Houthi movement have seized Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s chief of staff in the capital city Sanaa.

Investigators deliver a damning indictment of CIA interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks. Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein calls the findings a stain on America’s history.

The kidnap and threatened murder of British aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State (IS) militants is not permissible under sharia law, prominent Muslim clerics have warned.

At least 500 Britons are thought to have taken up arms in Syria and Iraq, while only a dozen American-born nationals have been identified as Islamic State fighters. What is behind the difference?

Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, regarded as the most influential voice in Salafist Islam, forcefully rejects the Islamic State’s declaration of a new caliphate and brands them a “deviant group”.

“Military intervention? Not again please”: Lakhdar Brahimi, former UN representative in Iraq, disputes Tony Blair’s analysis of the conflict there and says before the 2003 invasion Isis did not exist.

The Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls, vowing to sell the girls into slavery.

The jihadis who kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls two weeks ago say they are “willing to consider” the release of those who have not already been trafficked abroad and sold into marriage.

Iraq’s prime minister calls on tribal leaders in Anbar province to expel al-Qaeda linked fighters who have taken over key towns and cities in the region.

After 12 years of British involvement in Afghanistan, David Cameron announces he is preparing to pull troops out of the country next year, despite fears of an insurgency.

Among the most feared of al-Qaeda’s affiliates, al-Shabaab was behind the Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya. Jamal Osman attended one of its training camps in the Somali bush.

As the government announces new measures to tackle extremism, Ajmal Masroor, an imam at a London mosque, joins Usama Hasan from the Quilliam Foundation to talk about whether the plans will work.

A wave of co-ordinated car bomb detonations in Shia areas of Baghdad and a suicide bomb attack against soldiers kills 56, officials say.