U.S. Cable Reveals 1998 Contact with Mullah Omar
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Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah  Mohammad Omar told an American diplomat in a rare conversation  that the August 1998 U.S. strikes against Afghanistan would  lead to increased terrorism, according to a recently  declassified document released on Friday.
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Brother of Taliban commander killed by US claims to have received letter from al-Qaida leader.
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The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West
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CAMDEN, New Jersey  - Six Muslim men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at a New Jersey army base had hundreds of conversations recorded by federal agents that will be used against them at trial, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders are directing insurgency operations in Afghanistan from the Pakistani city of Quetta, while al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is operating from Pakistan's tribal areas, a senior U.S. administration official said on Friday.
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The U.S. government goes after an Islamic mullah they suspect of terrorist involvement by targeting his finances.
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Osama bin Laden&#39;s aide, Ayman al-Zawahri, said Thursday in a videotape broadcast by al-Jazeera TV that mujahedeen (holy fighters) have taken control of much of Afghanistan and driven US forces into the &quot;trenches&quot;.
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A Somali man who U.S. authorities allege has close ties to al-Qaeda operations in Africa was transferred to the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this week, Defense Department officials announced yesterday, the third detainee to arrive at the prison in recent weeks.
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The U.S. government has obtained a copy of a purported new videotape of Osama bin Laden issued by al Qaeda, in a reminder of its continued ability to command attention six years after the September 11 attacks.
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The spokesman was also asked to comment on the reported remark of US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism Joseph Cofer Black that the US and its allies have moved closer to capturing bin Laden in the last two months.
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A U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of northern Somalia Friday fired on a suspected al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, sources confirmed to CNN.
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Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Wednesday that they think the English-speaking al Qaeda associate who warned of new terrorist attacks against the United States on a recently released videotape is Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a  Californian in his mid-twenties who converted to Islam in 1995.
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The September 11 commission asked the CIA in 2003 and 2004 for information on the interrogation of al Qaeda suspects, only to be told the agency provided all that was requested, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the past two months, a top US counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast yesterday.
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The Guantanamo prisoner who died in his cell this week was a Saudi army veteran who trained with U.S. soldiers in his homeland before going to fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan, military records indicated on Thursday.
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The No. 2 State Department official met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified that an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
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CAIRO -- An Arab television station broadcast previously unseen footage yesterday of a smiling Osama bin Laden meeting with the top planners of the Sept. 11 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp and calling on followers to pray for the hijackers as they carry out the suicide mission.