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Ayman al-Zawahiri: US kills top al-Qaeda leader in drone strike

INTERNATIONAL The US has killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, a senior White House official confirmed on Monday evening. The CIA carried out a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan on 31 July at 6:18 am local time, the official said during a background call. The Associated Press first reported that Zawahiri, 71, was killed. "Now, justice has been delivered. And this terrorist leader is no more," President Joe Biden […]

today2 August 2022

International

Yemen: Houthi govt condemns ‘Al-Qaeda’s demolition’ of ancient mosque in Hudaydah

INTERNATIONAL Officials in Yemen's Houthi-led government have spoken out against the demolition of an ancient mosque in the province of Al-Hudaydah on Saturday, blaming "Al-Qaeda" elements. The Sanaa-based General Authority for Awqaf (Endowments) have condemned the destruction carried out to parts of the historic Al-Noor Mosque in the Al-Qataba area, north of the Al-Khokha district. The authority blamed the attack on Al-Qaeda elements, said to be led by a member […]

today11 July 2022

International News

Trump confirms killing of Al Qaeda chief in Yemen

US President Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday that the US had killed the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – days after the group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US naval base. The US "conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al Rimi, a founder and the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)," Trump said in a White House […]

today7 February 2020

International News

Al Qaeda chief says Israel’s Tel Aviv is also Muslim land

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, speaking in a recording released on Sunday, the eve of plans by the United States to move its embassy to Jerusalem, said that Tel Aviv was also Muslim land. The United States has finalised preparations to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a ceremony scheduled for Monday. President Donald Trump, who in December reversed decades of U.S. policy by recognizing Jerusalem as […]

today14 May 2018

International News

‘Mali rebel fighters’ kill 17 Tuareg civilians

Suspected rebels have killed at least 17 civilians belonging to the Tuareg ethnic community in northern Mali, just days after 40 Tuaregs were killed during a similar raid on nearby villages, authorities say. The attacks occurred on Tuesday in the village of Tindibawen, 160km east of the town of Menaka near the border with Niger, and in a nearby village, Nanout Kotia, mayor of Menaka, told Reuters news agency. Violence […]

today3 May 2018

International News

US says suspect linked to 2012 Benghazi attack captured

The US government says a man linked to a deadly attack on a US diplomatic compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi five years ago has been captured. Mustafa al-Imam, who was captured in Libya on Sunday, "will face justice in the United States", US President Donald Trump said in a statement on Monday. The September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Libya's second largest city resulted in the […]

today31 October 2017

International News

CIA ‘torture psychologists’ avoid trial with secret settlement

Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program settled a lawsuit Thursday by detainees alleging they were tortured. The secret settlement in the suit, brought on behalf of two living ex-detainees and one who died of hypothermia after brutal questioning in US custody, avoided what would have been the first public trial of the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture on suspected al-Qaeda members. The American Civil Liberties […]

today18 August 2017

Local

Stephen McGown on the ‘ups and downs’ of clinging to hope

After years of false hope, former al-Qaeda hostage Stephen McGown said he got tired of believing that he would ever be released. McGown, who spent almost six years in captivity, was jovial during a media briefing on Thursday, often making journalists laugh as he described the conditions he was forced to live under as a hostage in Mali. “It's difficult to actually comprehend. By this stage you have had so […]

today11 August 2017

Local

Family of SA hostage in Mali wants him out ‘as quickly as possible’

The family of Stephen McGown, a South African who has been held hostage in Mali for five-and-a-half years, hopes that government will negotiate his release soon following a new proof-of-life video released by AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), an organisation. "I know it's a combined effort from government and Imtiaz Sooliman (Gift of the Givers chair); I hope they get Stephen out as quickly as possible," Malcolm McGown, his […]

today3 August 2017

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