P resident Donald Trump on Monday lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, signing an executive order to carry out a promise he made ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his final sign-off Monday to lifting longstanding US sanctions on Syria after pledging to ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

A Co Antrim man awaiting sentence on charges including firearms offences has been remanded into custody. Mark Daniel Waller ...

U.S. warplanes struck Iran’s nuclear sites in a dramatic escalation—just the latest in a long, bloody pattern. From proxy ...

After US Congressman Bill Huizenga said, “Afghanistan has once again become a hotbed for terrorists looking for safe harbor,” ...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed over the weekend in a drone strike in a U.S. counterterrorism operation, President Biden announced Monday night. "He carved a trail of murder and ...

Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban and al Qaeda have grown closer, with the terrorist groups new leader calling on foreigners to come and train to target the West.

Al Qaeda is not without friends within Afghanistan, beyond its long historical ties with the Haqqani Network, a powerful player within the Taliban regime.

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video released Saturday — the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — raising questions over his rumored death.. The US-based SITE ...

If al Qaeda were a state or something akin to a state in 1996, then by implication Afghanistan and the Taliban did not so much host al Qaeda as surround it, as if it were an enclaved state.