Al Qaida's East African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting American black people and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.

A prominent Yemen judge who was known for sentencing al Qaida militants to prison has been shot dead in the southern port city of Aden, security officials have said.

Three members of the bin Laden family were killed after their plane avoided a microlight and then landed too far down the runway, air accident investigators have found.

Libyan militants have released a list of names of those they say were killed in a US weekend air strike but does not include the raid's main target, al Qaida-linked commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

The US military said it believes weekend air strikes killed an al Qaida-linked militant leader in eastern Libya who was charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed at least 35 hostages, including three Americans.

The US launched an airstrike targeting a mid-level al Qaida operative in Libya.

Two hostages held by al Qaida and two Americans working with the militant group were killed in US counter-terrorism operations earlier this year, the White House has said.

Al Qaida’s Syrian affiliate is confirming that its top field commander has been killed in an air strike.

More than 140,000 Iraqis have fled parts of Anbar province over clashes between security forces and al Qaida militants, the worst displacement of civilians in years, the UN has said.