No one disputes the horrific outcome: Iraqi military recruits were led off their base unarmed and murdered in their hundreds, machine gunned in mass graves by the Islamic State, whose fighters boasted proudly of the killings on the Internet.
The U.N. peacekeeping chief strongly denied on Wednesday allegations from the Philippines' army chief that Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights were ordered to surrender their weapons to Islamist militants who had trapped them.
The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. air strikes in Iraq.
Al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria on Sunday freed an American writer missing since 2012 following what officials said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to win his release.
Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri took the stand yesterday to answer all allegations of kidnapping and other terrorism-related charges against him by the US government, including his supposed role in the 1998 kidnapping of US tourists in Yemen, Bloomberg reported.
Journalists and right activists lost over a US Supreme Court decision to reject the hearing of a case that challenges a law that allows the US government to detain individuals who were found to have substantially supported al Qaeda, the Taliban or forces associated with the two groups, Reuters said.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was found guilty of all terrorism-related charges filed against him, including conspiracy to kill US nationals, on Wednesday, The New York Times said.
According to court filings made in the federal court of Manhattan on Monday, US prosecutors are barring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's statement about Sulaiman Abu Ghaith's actual role as a spokesman and not a military man in terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
Ahmed Muhammed Haza al Darbi, a detainee of the Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba, admitted to playing a major role in the Al Qaeda attack on French oil tanker Limburg in 2002, the New York Times said in a report.
Yemeni authorities reportedly foiled an al Qaeda plot go capture oil and gas facilities and seize two key southern plots earlier this week, a spokesman for the prime minister said
During his opening statements beginning his court martial trial on Tuesday, suspect Major Nidal Hasan who faces the death penalty for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, told jurors that "the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter." His opening statements lasted less than two minutes, adding that, "witnesses will testify that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. Evidence from this trial will only show one side. I was on the wrong side, but I switched sides."
The United States will temporarily shut down its embassies and consulates around the world on Sunday as a precautionary measure over terror-related concerns, State Department officials said on Friday
Canadian authorities have arrested two men, Chiheb Esseghaier, of Montreal and Raed Jaser, of Toonto, with links to Al Qaeda with conspiring to murder people on a VIA Canadian railway passenger train. While the subjects had the capacity to carry out an attack, the public was never in imminent danger.
Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander who masterminded the bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Reuters reported. Belmokhtar was one of the world's most wanted jihadists. This was a major blow to al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula.
