Yemeni security officials say al Qaida’s branch in the country has taken control of a southern city after security forces surrendered.

Prosecutors have presented declassified al-Qaida documents obtained after the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound at the trial of a man accused of a British terror plot.

Israel’s internal security agency says it has foiled an al-Qaida plan to attack the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and hit other targets in the country.

Yemen’s state security court has sentenced five alleged al Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for carrying out attacks against security forces and supporting the group logistically in the southern province of Abyan in 2011.

The leader of al-Qaida has called on Muslims to kidnap westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists.

Yemen government troops have killed 40 militants in a push to drive out al-Qaida fighters from the last town under their control in the southern Abyan province.

America claimed its most significant victory in its controversial targeted bombing campaign after a drone strike in Pakistan killed al Qaida’s second-in-command.

Al-Qaida's second-in-command has been killed by a drone strike in Pakistan's north west tribal region, a US official said today.

Al-Qaida’s second in command in Pakistan was in a house hit by a US drone strike, according to intelligence officials, but they do not know whether he was killed.

At least 23 al-Qaida militants have been killed in fierce clashes in south Yemen, officials said today.

US cyber-experts hacked al Qaida propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans into ones that showed the death toll of the terror group’s attacks against Yemenis, Hillary Clinton said.

Details have emerged of how the CIA fooled al Qaida over the terror network’s plot to bring down a plane with a nearly-undetectable bomb.

An airstrike killed a top al Qaida leader on the FBI’s most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said.

A year after the US Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al Qaida that carried out the September 11 attacks is essentially gone, but its affiliates remain a threat to America, anti-terror officials say.

Iraq’s al-Qaida branch has claimed responsibility for the wave of bombings and other attacks that killed dozens in Baghdad and across the country.

Four radical Islamists have today admitted an al-Qaida-inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange.

The drone strike in Yemen that killed al-Qaida chief Anwar al-Awlaki appears to have also killed the terror group’s top Saudi bomb-maker, US officials said today.

A private intelligence monitoring service says al-Qaida has marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an hour-long video released on jihadist websites.

Most of the 35 Iraqi terror suspects who tunnelled their way out of a detention facility today were quickly recaptured, a security official said.

Al-Qaida’s second in command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, a senior Obama administration official said today.

Al-Qaida in Iraq has vowed to carry out “100 attacks” across the country, starting in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to exact revenge for the death of Osama bin Laden.

The United States will push ahead with more targeted drone strikes and special operations raids and fewer costly land battles like Iraq and Afghanistan in the continuing war against al-Qaida, says a new counter-terrorism strategy.

Officials in Kenya say the head of Al-Qaida in East Africa has been killed.

The United Nations is considering creating separate terrorism blacklists for al-Qaida and the Taliban, a political gesture that could spur possible Afghan peace talks.

Al Jazeera television has reported that Al-Qaida has a new leader.

Members of Pakistan’s parliament condemned the US today for the raid that killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden on their soil.

Pornography was among the items seized when US Navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, US officials said today.

Pakistan has ordered an investigation into how Osama bin Laden was able to live in the garrison city of Abbottabad undetected.

Osama bin Laden was a “warrior” who will be rewarded in heaven for the “great sacrifices” he made for Islam, Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric said today.

Pakistan's prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is to brief parliament today on the US operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

The killing of Osama bin Laden may weaken al-Qaida’s influence on the Afghan Taliban, the US military commander in Afghanistan has said.

The United States wants access to three widows of Osama bin Laden being held by Pakistani authorities, something that could help answer questions about whether any officials knew the al-Qaida chief was living in the country, a top American official said.

A loud explosion has been heard in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.

The national security adviser for the White House said the material seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan amounts to the largest cache of intelligence ever gathered from any single terrorist.

America has said Osama bin Laden was actively running al-Qaida up until he was killed.

US Intelligence officials will be working through the night analysing material recovered from Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan.

A purported al-Qaida leader in Pakistan has said the terror network is losing territory and fighters amid a US drone strike campaign, according to an audio message monitored by a US organisation that tracks militant propaganda.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has issued a new message warning France to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

Two terrorist cells with links to al-Qaida have been dismantled and their members detained, the Moroccan Interior Ministry said today.

Japan issued a travel alert for Europe today, joining Britain and the US in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in their stride.

Senior al-Qaida leaders, including Osama bin Laden, are involved in the latest terror plot against European cities, say US officials.

A US citizen of Algerian origin suspected of financing al-Qaida’s North African offshoot has been arrested in Spain, officials said today.

A US citizen in custody in Yemen as a suspected al-Qaida member had worked at six nuclear plants in the States, officials in New Jersey said.

Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on America in the next three to six months, intelligence chiefs told the US Congress.