Al-Qaida

Dozens of people have died in the Syrian capital Damascus after two booby-trapped cars exploded at security forces sites in the city.

Reports that Washington is accelerating its withdrawal from Iraq by three weeks are a mixed blessing, says defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones.

The man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day 2009 by detonating a bomb in his underpants pleads guilty to all charges against him.

Ten years after the war in Afghanistan began, the US and NATO still don’t have enough knowledge to reach their goals, says former US army general Stanley McChrystal.

As a US drone strike in Yemen kills cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading al-Qaeda figure, Channel 4 News assesses his influence on terror attacks in the UK and abroad.

Aid agencies say Pakistan’s perceived links to terrorist groups is undermining their ability to raise funds internationally to tackle a second successive year of devastating floods.

A student arrested for downloading a document about al-Qaeda as part of his university research has won £20,000 compensation from Nottingham Police. Darshna Soni went to meet him.

Abu Hafs al Shahri, believed to be al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan, has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Waziristan.

The US president warns that terror groups will target the US again and urges vigilance as America marks the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Memorial services are held in New York, London and around the world as victims’ families remember the atrocity that claimed almost 3,000 lives.

A leading expert on the terror group tells Channel 4 News why al-Qaeda is in decline – and where the next 9/11-style plot could come from.

Cleared for release in 2007, British resident Shaker Aamer is on hunger strike as lawyers say he was routinely beaten on days his legal team was due to meet him.

Pakistan says it has captured three al-Qaeda operatives, including “senior leader” Younis al-Mauritania, who it says took orders directly from Osama bin Laden.

Four more Nato troops have been killed by insurgents in Afghanistan, as the coalition force works to determine if the Taliban was responsible for the Chinook crash that claimed the lives of 38.

The mayor of the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar has been killed by a suicide bomber – the latest in a string of attacks on influential officials in the country.