In the JIT report on Safora massacre, it was said in it that after the arrest of former Amir Abdul Rehman of
Al-Qaida sub continent in 2001, Jalal Chandio was made as local Amir of the outfit.
Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran's UN Mission, said Tuesday the experts report was based on information from an unidentified member of the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against
al-Qaida and the Islamic State extremist group.
The deceased
al-Qaida leader also had directed operations against coalition, Afghan and Pakistani forces and maintained a close association with
al-Qaida's top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Cook added.
successes over the years in targeting and killing senior
al-Qaida operatives in their home base has left the militant group's leadership diminished and facing difficult choices, counterterrorism officials and analysts say.
CAIRO --
Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen is surging in strength, finding new support and recruits among the country's Sunni tribesmen, in a backlash to drone strikes and the rise to power of Shiite rebels who have taken over the capital and other parts of the country, tribal leaders and Yemeni officials warn.
"For these reasons, the
Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee will continue to maintain a global approach to the threat," he vowed.
This receipt for groceries, which includes prices paid for tomatoes, onions, charcoal, meat and a lightbulb, was retrieved from a building occupied by
al-Qaida's North African branch in Timbuktu, Mali.
Le Conseil de securite a tenu, mercredi dernier, une seance durant laquelle ont ete presentes les exposes des presidents des trois comites charges respectivement des sanctions contre
Al-Qaida, de la lutte antiterroriste et du non-acces des acteurs non etatiques a la technologie nucleaire.
11(Xinhua-ANI): Up to five
al-Qaida militants were killed Saturday evening when U.S.
TWO US drone strikes have killed a total of nine suspected
al-Qaida militants, the sixth and seventh such attacks in less than two weeks as the Arab nation is on high alert against terrorism.
The explosion, which rocked the city of Lawder in the southern Abyan province, came as a top intelligence official disclosed that the nation's president rejected a truce with
al-Qaida. He said the Yemeni government also turned down proposals from clerics and tribal leaders to grant amnesty to
al-Qaida detainees in Yemeni prisons if the militant group renounces violence and hands over weapons.
Al-Fadhli reportedly replaced Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil -- better known as Yasin al-Suri -- as
Al-Qaida's senior facilitator and financier in Iran.
