Suicide bombings are generally attributed to the Sunni extremist al-Qaida in Iraq movement, but they are relatively rare in the overwhelmingly Shiite southern portion of the country, and the attack suggested that al-Qaida continues its efforts to ...

And yet, Mike McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence, says: “Al-Qaida remains the pre-eminent threat against the United States. ”  How could this be if Bush is winning the war against "terror"?  More than six ...

From his perspective, retreat would lead to chaos in Iraq, embolden al-Qaida to pursue an attack on America, and encourage Iran to develop nuclear weapons ... 11 commission found no collaborative relationship between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein, who ...

airstrike on suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Somalia, it was reported A Pentagon official confirmed the attack, saying the missiles hit a target in a community controlled by Islamic extremists, The Daily Telegraph reported ... Islamist ...

Clearly al-Qaida and Islamic fundamentalists had expressed hatred toward her, Cannistraro told CNN ... Bhutto, who escaped unhurt in a bomb attack in October, hours after she returned home following her long self-imposed exile, had blamed ...

As the Iraq war enters its sixth year, the majority of Americans are disillusioned with the conflict and want U ... The sad news from military experts, however, is that the war has only entered "middle age" and won't end for another five years or ...

"Why doesn't al-qaida show up in the V of AZ spell checker?" ... How can the President have a 31% approval rating without people protesting/rioting against him in the ...

The Sadrists have complained that the government has released few of their followers under a new amnesty law, which they complain has favored Sunnis who have recently joined with the Americans to fight al-Qaida ... Attacks bearing the ...

troops last summer, and emergence of Sunni- dominated groups that are fighting against al-Qaida in Iraq ... has 29,000 troops in Afghanistan, including 16,000 serving with the NATO-led coalition, and another 13,000 training the Afghan forces and ...

military officials said coalition forces conducted operations in targeting al-Qaida in Iraq suspects near Tikrit. Forces reportedly exchanged in small arms fire with several suspects in a building later destroyed by coalition aircraft, ...

Major Shiite commemorations have frequently been targeted in the past by suspected Sunni insurgents led by al-Qaida in Iraq in their drive to stoke sectarian violence ... military attributes to a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq and an influx ...

"If we were to shut down this program and restrict the CIA to methods in the Field Manual, we could lose vital information from senior al-Qaida terrorists, and that could cost American lives," Bush said ... Besides ruling out waterboarding, that ...

Anbar province is a former al-Qaida in Iraq stronghold that has seen a drop in violence as Sunni groups there have switched allegiances ... military said Iraqi soldiers discovered 15 bodies near the town of Kazim al-Isrhail, some 20 miles northeast of ...

While he would not comment on who was behind the assassination, he said ever since much of al-Qaida fled to Pakistan from Afghanistan, there are many trained killers everywhere in the country. But that didn't diminish the sadness he ...

But many of her supporters have alleged that political allies of Musharraf were behind her killing, which the government has blamed on Islamic militants with links to al-Qaida ... " Zardari rejected as "lies" the government's account of how ...