Mauritania killings may be new Qaeda chapter
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ALEG, Mauritania  - By a sand-swept road in southern Mauritania a monument to four French tourists shot dead by suspected Islamic militants lies smashed into concrete shards.
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Yemen said seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis were killed in a suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in the province of Marib on Monday.
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Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda appears to  be using established militant groups and small cells for bloody  attacks in Pakistan aimed at destabilizing President Pervez  Musharraf and thus the wider war on terror, analysts say.
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The jihadists usually focus on massive civilian attacks. But Bhutto's killing may be a sign they are diversifying their playbook
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The north African branch of Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for two suicide attacks in Algeria which killed over 50 people, Al-Jazeera television reported Sunday citing an Internet statement from the group.
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Saudi security forces killed three senior suspected al Qaeda members among a group of 10 militants slain in raids and shootouts in the past two days, the Interior Ministry said today.
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Mauritania's interior minister blamed a terrorist sleeper cell Wednesday for the Christmas Eve killing of four French family members visiting the African country.
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The bombings on Egypt&#39;s Red Sea coast appear to bear the hallmarks of al Qaeda or a related group and to fit the agenda of Osama bin Laden&#39;s network, security sources and analysts said.
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A Frenchman was shot dead in the Saudi  city of Jeddah on Sunday in the second such killing this month  by suspected al Qaeda militants trying to drive Westerners out  and destabilize the global oil superpower.
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A militant Islamic group that recently renamed itself al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for two suicide attacks that killed dozens in Algeria -- including an assassination attempt on the country's president.
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Reports that a senior al-Qaeda operative was killed in Pakistan by a U.S. drone will likely help the war on terror but hurt Pakistan's embattled President
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TABA, Egypt - Israeli officials said yesterday they believe al-Qaeda was probably behind three suicide car bomb attacks targeting Red Sea resorts filled with Israeli tourists.
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Mauritania on Sunday announced tightened security at tourist sites after a Christmas Eve murder of four French adventure buffs led French operators to suspend holiday packages to the African nation.
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Mauritanian authorities said they were searching Tuesday for three men suspected of links with a local terror network in connection with the fatal shooting of four picnicking French tourists.
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Authorities in Guinea-Bissau arrest two Mauritanian men over the shooting of French tourists in Mauritania last month.
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Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing says it carried out two attacks which killed at least 50 in the past two days.
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The vast Sahara has long sheltered rebels   and bandits but security experts fear its remote oases and   mountain hideouts may also be an ideal recruitment and training   ground for al Qaeda-linked militants.