Al-Qaida

Reports suggest the CIA set up a fake vaccination campaign in an attempt to get DNA from members of the bin Laden family. The development adds to the strain on relations between Pakistan and the US.

The United States is to withhold some £500m in military assistance to Pakistan, as it “works through” strains in their relationship prompted by the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, announces the drawdown of a further 500 troops by the end of 2012, as Britain winds down its combat role in Afghanistan.

The man in charge of the UN’s al-Qaeda-Taliban Monitoring Team says that creating separate sanction blacklists could make it easier for Afghan leaders to engage the Taliban in the political process.

As troops leave Afghanistan defence experts tell Channel 4 News securing the violent eastern border with Pakistan will become a priority, and that may include the use of more unmanned drone strikes.

France follows US President Barack Obama by outlining a phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Gary Gibbon looks at the political strategies at play in ending the decade-long war.

Nations which carry out drone attacks must confirm and report who is killed, say lawyers in a newly published study on the legality of attacks by the unmanned aircraft.

The Government bars parcel company UPS from screening air cargo at some UK facilities until it has “satisfied current security requirements”.

Home Secretary Theresa May says universites are complacent on radicalism, but the president of the Islamic student body Fosis tells Channel 4 News her comments are ‘disrespectful and sensationalist.’

Al-Qaeda militants reportedly in control of government buildings in the southern city of Zinjibar have fled following air strikes, a journalist in the beleaguered country has told Channel 4 News.

Pakistan Taliban leaders warn Channel 4 News that their fighters will seek to avenge the death of their leader, Ilyas Kashmiri, upon Pakistan and US targets.

A senior Pakistan Taliban leader confirms to Channel 4 News that their leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed by a US drone strike, but denied any involvement in recent Pakistan attacks.

Al-Qaeda releases a tape said to feature Osama bin Laden praising this year’s uprisings in the Middle East and calling for more Muslim “tyrants” to be toppled.

At least 80 people killed in double suicide bombing at a military academy in Pakistan. A source in the area tells Channel 4 News that hundreds of victims continue to arrive in hospitals.

Pakistan may allow the United States to interview Osama bin Laden’s wives who were with him at the compound where he was killed, according to reports from Washington and Islamabad.