Pakistan's "war on terror" has cost the developing country a whopping $118bn so far, a new central bank report has said, an amount equivalent to well over one third of its gross domestic product.
A leading Egyptian al Qaeda figure who joined its Syrian offshoot the Nusra Front and became a prominent figure in the militant group was killed in a drone attack in rebel-held Idlib province, two jihadist sources said on Monday.
A US drone attack in Yemen killed two suspected Al-Qaeda members in their vehicle on Saturday in Marib province east of the capital Sanaa, a local official said.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an online audio message, pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was appointed last month after his predecessor was killed in a US drone strike.
Yemeni troops killed 13 militants in a raid on a house outside the southern city of Mukalla on Sunday in which two soldiers also died, the army said ...
Bangladesh police have arrested an Islamist militant charged with the murder of a professor amid a surge in deadly attacks against liberal activists and other minorities, a senior officer said.
A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group and a second attack killed 37 police on Sunday in the Yemeni port of Mukalla where a year of Al Qaeda rule was ended just last month, medics said.
Three Spanish journalists who had been held hostage in Syria by an Al Qaeda-linked group returned on Sunday to Madrid where they were welcomed by overjoyed family members after nearly a year in captivity.
Singapore has detained eight Bangladeshi men planning to stage terror attacks in their home country, the city state said, the second group of Bangladeshis investigated in the past six months.
A suspected US drone strike killed a local leader in Al Qaeda and five of his aides in southern Yemen, as Yemeni and Emirati troops pressed their offensive against the militant group.
Yemeni government forces and their Emirati allies took back control of the country's largest oil export terminal from al Qaeda on Monday, a day after routing the militants from their nearby stronghold.
Yemeni and Emirati troops advanced into the southern port city of Mukalla on Sunday, officials and residents said, entering a stronghold of al Qaeda's Yemeni wing for the first time in over a year of war.
