Al-Qaeda

Boy, 14, managed to flee from the Al-Qaeda linked group.

Al Qaeda has called on Libyan fighters not to surrender their weapons to the National Transitional Council (NTC), as it warned them they would "return to slavery".

A Yemeni woman was killed during a protest march against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, despite tanks and armoured vehicles having withdrawn under a ceasefire deal, witnesses said.

A suicide bomber has attacked a shrine in Afghan capital Kabul during the Shia holy day of Ashura.

Muammar Gaddafi's daughter Aisha has this week reiterated calls for the overthrow of the Libyan transitional government. Is she positioning herself to be the leader of a Libyan counter revolution?

A resident of New York has been arrested on suspicion of planning to bomb targets, including police cars and post offices.

Two British terror suspects have been reportedly killed in an attack by U.S. military drones, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The new head of Al-Qaeda has released a video in which he describes the late Osama Bin Laden as "tender" and "kind".

A Malian man faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine in a bid to fund the activities of Al-Qaeda and FARC guerrilla fighters in Columbia, US prosecutors said.

Three Norwegians, linked to al Qaeda, accused of plotting to bomb to a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in an Oslo court.

Israel has offered to help Kenya secure its borders in a bid to fight off the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has caused havoc in the region, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office says.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that he will step down within 90 days of an agreement with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council

Europe is tightening the grip on right-wing violence. German authorities have widened an investigation into an underground neo-Nazi cell, the same day that 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, right-wing extremist, arrived at a court hearing.

Three French aid workers have been released by Yemeni militants after being held for six months, say officials.

Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defences on its airliners, as officials fear a potential attack by militants using weapons looted in Libya after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, it was reported.

Weeks after the Death of Colonel Gaddafi and the official liberation of Libya, the conflict that rocked the African state still has ramifications that could threaten the regional stability as a string of worrying reports continue to emerge.

A Nigerien soldier has been killed and four wounded during clashes between Niger's army and a group of cars traveling south from Libya, the country's Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidio said

Tombs of the family of dead Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have been desecrated, an Algerian newspaper has reported, after a gang attacked a Sirte cemetery of the Gadadfa tribe.

The Libyan diaspora has played a vital role in helping to overthrow the Gaddafi regime but with the emergence of Islamists conservative factions, many questions how the new Libya will manage to embrace the progressive values.

Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed his support for the appointment of Abdel Rahim al-Kib as the head of a new Libyan transitional government.

With the black flag of al-Qaeda spotted alongside the new Libyan flag above a Benghazi courtroom, fears of the growing influence of the terrorist network in Libya are growing. Far from being the only threat to stability, al-Qaeda is however one of the many factions the NTC will have to keep under control to establish a more peaceful Libya.

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels vowed on Thursday to fight Kenya after its troops entered the Horn of Africa nation and called on sympathisers to carry out major attacks in east Africa's biggest economy.

The funeral of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan on Tuesday set the stage for the nomination of a new heir, widely expected to be interior minister Prince Nayef, at a time where the Kingdom has seen increasing demand for reforms.

As Gaddafi's death has been announced and confirmed, the Libyan authorities now have to start planning for the former leader's burial, a topic which seems to divide the NTC, proving the 'lion of Africa' can provoke trouble even in death.

U.S. forces are massing for a full scale offensive against the Haqqani Network - a group with terrorist links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating in northern Pakistan, say reports.

Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office Minister, has been seen dumping government documents into park bins near 10 Downing Street.

The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S bound passenger plane on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underwear has pleaded guilty to all charges.

News of the murder of prominent Syrian Kurdish activist Mishaal al-Tammo comes on the back of several high-profile assassinations and attempts on the lives of public figures around the world in the last 12 months.

Despite months of protests, Yemeni President Saleh, 69, has remained defiant, reversing repeated pledges to quit and while fears of al-Qaeda's influence have been voiced, other criteria also threaten the country's stability. With Saleh's new pledge to leave power now in doubts, the future of Yemen is once more in tatters.

After 10 years of foreign military presence, the future of Afghanistan looks gloomy, with a weak and struggling government accused of corruption and an increase in violent insurgency as the promised withdrawal in 2014 looms.