Al Qaeda gains recruits from Iraq war: U.N. study
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A U.N. report released on   Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training   center and recruits, reinforcing a U.S. intelligence study   blaming the conflict for a surge in Islamic extremism.
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The men allegedly behind last week's failed terror plots in England and Scotland have connections to al Qaeda in Iraq, U.S. officials said.
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ALGIERS -- Al-Qaeda has rapidly extended its influence across North Africa by aiding and organizing local groups that are demonstrating a renewed ability to launch terrorist attacks in the region, such as the triple suicide bombings that killed 33 people here last month, according to...
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BAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq is telling its followers to soften their tactics in order to regain popular support in the western province of Anbar, where Sunni tribes have turned against the organization and begun working with U.S. forces, according to group leaders and Am...
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The director of national intelligence said Al Qaeda is gaining in strength from its refuge in Pakistan and is enhancing its ability to recruit operatives.
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BERLIN, Dec. 11 -- The bombs that shattered a United Nations office complex in Algeria and the country's Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people, were the work of an al-Qaeda faction that has revived a flagging insurgency in the North African nation by importing tactics from Iraq, co...
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An estimated 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of the March 2003 United States-led invasion, according to a new study by a research
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Al Qaeda&#39;s Iraq affiliate has taken responsibility for a series of deadly attacks there, according to an unverified Internet statement.
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The war in Iraq has acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for Muslim extremists, a Ministry of Defence report says.
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The war in Iraq has bred deep   resentment in the Muslim world and provided Islamist militants   with a "cause celebre" that allowed the global movement to   cultivate supporters, according to excerpts of a secret   intelligence report released on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON: A new study has found that it is not likely that Al Qaeda has explicit and dedicated infrastructure to recruit Pakistanis for its operations, rather it relies upon a web of informal
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The Iraq war gave birth to a new   generation of Islamic radicals and the terrorist threat has   grown since the September 11 attacks, according to a U.S.   intelligence report cited in The New York Times on Saturday.
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Al Qaeda will be replaced by increasingly decentralized Muslim militants over the next 15 years who will feed on globalization to find recruits and stage attacks, a new U.S. intelligence report said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Al Qaeda terror network, responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has reestablished a safe haven in Pakistan, retained its top leadership, and trained new operatives in Iraq -- and now poses a "heightened threat" of another massive attack on the United States, according to the summary of a joint American intelligence assessment.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 20 -- Attacks against U.S. troops have increased in the two weeks since al-Qaeda in Iraq's new leader urged insurgents to target American forces, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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United Nations, Sep 15 - Iraq has appealed to the international community to send more troops to protect the United Nations staff needed for holding of elections by January 31 next year and thwart terrorist attempt to disrupt the poll process.
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The al Qaeda wing in Iraq claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack near an Iraqi army recruitment center in Baghdad which killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, according to an Internet statement.