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Islamists say still holding hostages in Kenya mall siege

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Nairobi: Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants said they are still holding hostages as Kenyan troops battled for a fourth day to end the bloody siege at a Nairobi shopping centre.
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Pakistani terror trainer behind Nairobi mall attack?

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Islamabad: A Pakistani-origin man is believed to be the security and training chief of Al Qaeda linked Shahab group that carried out the horrific attack at an upscale Kenyan mall killing at least 59

59 killed in Nairobi mall attack, two Indians among victims

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Nairobi, Kenya - The attack by al-Qaida-linked militants at an upscale mall in Nairobi killed at least 59 people and wounded 175, Kenya's interior Cabinet secretary said on Sunday.
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War-weary US marks 12th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

New York City: War-weary Americans on Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, as President Barack Obama - for now holding fire on Syria - said force alone cannot 'bui

Nepal to freeze assets of Dawood Ibrahim, al-Qaeda linked suspects

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Kathmandu: Nepal on Tuesday announced it would enforce a UN freeze on bank accounts of over 200 terror suspects, including Dawood Ibrahim, though officials said they had no information of India's mos

US evacuating its citizens from Yemen amid Qaeda threat; Britain withdraws embassy staff

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Washington: The US on Tuesday began evacuating its nationals from Yemen amid a worldwide alert linked to electronic intercepts from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, ordering one of the most serious

UK contemplates SAS raid to nail desert al-Qaeda kingpin

London: Britain may launch an Osama Bin Laden like ‘kill or snatch’ operation in the Sahara desert to nail the one-eyed al-Qaeda kingpin Mokhtar Belmokhtar, believed to be responsible for a hostage s

Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri calls for kidnap of Westerners

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Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, join Syria's rebellion and to ensure Egypt implements sharia, SITE Monitoring reported on Saturday, citing a two-part film

US considered killing Osama with 'magic bullet'

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The US considered slaying terror mastermind Osama bin Laden with a just developed minute missile ‘magic bullet’ among the options to breach his hideout deep inside Pakistan, a new book has revealed.

Radical preacher Abu Hamza extradited to US

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Radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects were on their way from Britain to the United States on Saturday after a court rejected their last-ditch court bid to block their extr

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