UN sanctions 3 Kuwaitis for al-Qaida tie
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The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Wednesday on three Kuwaitis who allegedly help finance al-Qaida operations and recruit fighters for the terrorist network, diplomats said.
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The State Department has designated Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s militant group a terrorist organization. The move imposes restrictions on Tawhid and Jihad, including freezing assets in US banks and banning travel of members to the United States.
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The Al-Qaida terror network spent less than â¬44,600 on each of its major attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings and one of its hallmarks is using readily-available items like mobile phones and knives as weapons, a new United Nations report
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The hostages arrived in Kuwait last evening, according to a Government statement quoting its special envoy on the hostage crisis, Ambassador Yusuf Nzibo.
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A Kuwaiti heading a group lobbying for the release of his countrymen being held as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, urged their U.S. captors on Sunday not to torture prisoners.
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STATE DEPARTMENT The State Department is including Saudi Arabia for the first time on its list of countries that could be subject to sanctions for violations of religious freedom.
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The United Nations has not kept an up-to-date list of al-Qaida and Taliban leaders targeted by international sanctions, harming both the fight against terrorism and efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, a key U.N. counterterror official said Friday.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an appeal procedure for people and groups subject to sanctions because of suspected ties to al Qaeda and Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers.
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Saudi Arabia named Tuesday three of the five militants who stormed the US consulate in Jeddah, and said they were all Saudi nationals.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwaiti police intensified their crackdown on Islamic militants yesterday, storming several suspected hideouts and arresting a reputed terror leader after a shootout that killed four suspects and a civilian. The fighting in Mubarak Al Kabir, south of Kuwait City, left three terror suspects and three police officers wounded, officials said. One of the three suspects who surrendered ...
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The United States accused its Arab allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar on Tuesday of being among the world's worst offenders in permitting the sale of people into the sex trade and indentured servitude.
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The United States accused its Arab allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar on Tuesday of being among the world's worst offenders in failing to prevent people from being sold into the sex trade and servitude.
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The Pakistani army has said it has tightened the noose around al-Qaida-linked fighters hiding near the Afghan border. &quot;Around 600 to 700 foreign militants are still in the tribal area,&quot; said on Saturday Major
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A UN spokesman has called on kidnappers to release three UN hostages held in Afghanistan before the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Fitr later this week.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - A military prosecutor has charged 35 Arab nationals and alleged members of an al-Qaida-linked terror group with plotting to bomb foreign targets in Lebanon, including the Italian and Ukrainian diplomatic missions, judicial officials said Saturday.    But only nine of the 35 defendants are in police custody, the officials said on condition of anonymity...
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Iraqi authorities ordered a one-day vehicle ban in Baqouba on Friday in response to a series of deadly suicide bombings and other attacks by al-Qaida in Iraq against predominantly Sunni fighters that have allied with the United States.
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1 September 2004 -- Seven employees of a Kuwaiti firm taken hostage in Iraq on 21 July were freed today. Spokeswoman Rana Abu-Zaineh of the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company confirmed that the three Kenyans