Officers arrested a Somali man attempting to board a Dubai-bound plane in November in Mogadishu with a white powder, liquid and syringes.
A wing of al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Monday for a failed Christmas Day attack on a United States-bound passenger plane.
An insurgency in the remote Shabwa region of Yemen backed by groups claiming loyalty to al-Qaeda has provided a base for the global terror network.
The Obama administration said on Sunday it was investigating whether al-Qaeda was involved in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a passenger jet.
A Nigerian man with possible links to al-Qaeda militants was in custody on Saturday after he tried to ignite an explosive device on a US plane.
A Nigerian man linked to al-Qaeda tried to set off an explosive device aboard a US passenger plane as it approached Detroit on Friday.
An al-Qaeda group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for five coordinated bombings that killed 127 people in Baghdad, US-based monitors said.
Hundreds of Somalis held a rare street protest after Friday prayers to condemn a suicide bombing at a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu.
Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul.
United States President Barack Obama on Monday called al-Qaeda the biggest threat to US security.
Pakistani troops were on Wednesday locked in deadly street battles with Taliban fighters.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hit out on Friday against Pakistan’s silence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders.
A bomb in a crowded market killed more than 30 people and wounded scores on Wednesday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.
Baghdad’s governor on Monday blamed negligence or even collusion by the security forces for Sunday’s deadly bombings.
Pakistani authorities imposed a curfew on Saturday in the Taliban’s South Waziristan bastion ahead of an imminent assault on militants.
A suspected suicide bomber killed up to 24 people in an attack on the Pakistani military on Monday.
The Taliban’s alliance with Osama bin Laden appears stronger than for years, but strains linger beneath the surface.
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri told US-led forces to leave Afghanistan or face a ”flood of death” in the central Asian country.
Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of ”retaliation” against them.
US special forces carried out a revenge raid in Somalia that killed a top al-Qaeda commander high on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.
