Ayman al-Zawahri

* Al Qaeda group overshadows Syrian rebel fighters * Jihadis' aims go beyond toppling Assad * Rebel break-up complicates calculation for West By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT, May 17 (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader. Al Qaeda's Iraq-based...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday blacklisted four Syrian government ministers, an airline and a television station it said helped the Assad government in its two-year crackdown on opposition forces. The same day, the State...

* U.S., Russia optimistic they can make Syria meeting happen * Some envoys concerned Syria peace conference is doomed By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday warned against allowing...

UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (Reuters) - Britain and France have delayed a Syrian request for Islamist al-Nusra Front to be designated by the United Nations as a terrorist group because they want the militants to instead be listed as an alias of al Qaeda,...

* Turkish support key in any military intervention * Iraq memories fuel scepticism on chemical weapons claims * Jordan concerned by Islamist fighters among rebel ranks * U.S. allies ultimately seen toeing Washington's line By Nick Tattersall...

April 25 (Reuters) - Canadian police say they have foiled a plot they say was backed by "al Qaeda elements in Iran" to derail a passenger train. Iran says it is opposed to the ideology of al Qaeda. Diplomats and officials say there is no evidence of...

NEW YORK (AP) — A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle was due in court to face a charge he plotted against Americans in his role as the terror network's top propagandist who lauded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and...

WASHINGTON (AP)— A U.S. official says a drone strike in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region has killedal-Qaida’s second-in-command. The death of Abu Yahya al-Libi is a significant blow to the terror network, which has lost a string of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil. But the terrorist network dreams still of payback,...

3 GOP primaries Tuesday, but Romney and Obama act as though the fall campaign is all but set MILWAUKEE (AP) — Republican front-runner Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are trading jabs even before Republicans vote in their latest...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Authorities are on high alert in Southern California after a series of terror scares struck Los Angeles International Airport during the weekend of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. Counterterrorism officials...