WAR ON TERROR

At least 17 people Thursday were killed in clashes between members of al-Qaeda following the death of a local leader of Al Qaeda by his half-brother

Al Qaeda fighters swept into the southern Yemeni town of Rada overnight and overran it within hours, local and tribal officials were quoted as saying by AFP on Monday.

A number of al-Qaeda fighters escaped early Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials confirmed.

The chief of the media department of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and six other other members were killed in an air raid on terror outposts in Yemen

Al-Qaeda's top bomb expert in Yemen was not killed in Feiday's drone strike on a convoy, a top Yemeni official revealed.

A senior al Qaeda figure in Yemen was killed in an air strike, reports said Friday.

A Saudi criminal court began yesterday the prosecution of 41 defendants

A suicide bomber attacked a police station in eastern Algeria early Sunday wounding 33 people, including 11 policemen and two Chinese nationals.

Ayad al-Shabwani, a senior leader of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been killed in fighting with the army.

Saudi security forces have dismantled an Al-Qaeda-linked cell of 16 people plotting to overthrow the regime

The security chaos in Yemen goes on.

Al-Qaeda gunmen attacked security and government buildings in the southern Yemeni town of Huta on Wednesday killing a policeman and injuring six others.

Al-Qaeda gunmen have taken control of the south Yemen city of Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province.

A Saudi diplomat was shot dead in the Pakistani city of Karachi when unidentified gunmen fired at a car belonging to the kingdom's embassy.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the United States' Thursday air attack in Yemen aimed at killing the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Al Qaeda No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was the one who led American forces to Osama bin Laden's compound, a Saudi newspaper reported on Thursday.

Bin Laden's first wife, her Filipino maid and Osama bin Laden's three children (a female and two young men - Abdullah and Abdul-Qader) left the city of Latakia to Doha.

Morocco's Minister of Communications Khalid Naciri on Friday hinted to the possibility that al Qaeda is linked to the bombing.

At least 14 people died on Thursday by an explosion in a cafe in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has announced Yemen's Abyan province as an "Islamic emirate".

According to police sources and witnesses an American unmanned spy drone crashed near the city Lauder in South Yemen.

Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adly stated on Sunday that a Palestinian group was behind the New Year's church attack in the city of Alexandria that killed more than 20 people.

Saudi Arabia published Sunday a list of 47 people wanted for suspected links to Al-Qaeda who are all abroad, the interior ministry said.

News reports said six Yemeni soldiers were killed, following an attack by gunmen suspected of belonging to al Qaeda on Friday.

Egyptian Interior Ministry published a picture of an unidentified body which was found near the blast site.