Abu Sayyaf extremists in the Philippines have released a video of the beheading of a German hostage.

Latest: It has now been confirmed that 20 hostages have been killed during a siege in a cafe in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.

Extremist group Boko Haram killed seven military police and injured three others in an attack on a barracks in south east Niger, witnesses said on Saturday.

The president of Ivory Coast has said 14 civilians and six armed men were killed after attackers targeted beach-goers and three hotels in the historic resort town of Grand-Bassam.

Hackers have leaked 22,175 FBI employees’ names, job titles and contact details.

‘Paris attacks show shift toward a broader strategy of IS going global’

New video released by Islamic State shows the extremists who carried out the terror attacks in Paris committing atrocities in IS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital that left 130 people dead.

Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east, according to the army.

Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels Boko Haram have renewed their threat to use violence to disrupt Nigeria’s upcoming elections.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for the mass killings in the north-east Nigerian town of Baga and threatened more violence.

An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria released a video in which its leader praises deadly attacks in Paris last week, a monitoring group said.

Charlie Hebdo is releasing a new version of its irreverent and often offensive newspaper, defiantly putting a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover that drew immediate criticism and threats of more violence.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor has said.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor said.

Islamic extremists have released another propaganda video appearing to feature British hostage John Cantlie.

Algerian extremists allied with the Islamic State group appear to have decapitated a French hostage after France ignored their demand to stop air strikes in Iraq, according to a video released by a US terrorism watchdog.

At least 12 civilians have been killed in a suicide attack targeting African Union troops in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, the first serious assault by suspected Islamic extremists after the killing of al-Shabab’s top leader in a US air strike last week.

Islamic militants have posted a video online which claims to show the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff, who went missing in Syria last year.

An internet video has been released purporting to show the beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State group.

A jihadist group has released a video claiming responsibility for recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people.

THE killing of al-Qaida’s number two leader deprives the group of a multi-talented manager who helped it spawn offshoots around the world and survive a US counter-terrorism campaign in Pakistan, analysts say.

Shortly before his death, Osama bin Laden recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements and predicting that revolutions would spread across the region.

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.

The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan said the September 11 2001 attacks “wouldn’t have happened” if Americans had been forewarned to be on the lookout for terrorism.

YEMEN’S al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula has published chilling tips on how to kill Americans in its second edition of the English online magazine Inspire.

Pakistan’s army chief ordered an inquiry today into video clips that show men in soldiers’ uniforms gunning down a group of bound and blindfolded detainees.

AL-QAIDA leader Osama bin Laden sought to drum up support by taking advantage of Pakistan’s flood tragedy with a new audiotape released yesterday criticising Muslim governments for their slow response and calling for the creation of a new relief body to aid Muslims.

Osama bin Laden has called in a new message for the creation of a relief body to aid Muslim victims of natural disasters and wars.

The Taliban has today denounced this week's international conference on Afghanistan's future, saying the "vague and terrible agenda" showed that the US and its allies intended to abandon the country and blame their ultimate defeat on the Afghan government.

An al-Qaida affiliated group has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that targeted the British ambassador in Yemen, a US-based terrorist tracking organisation said today.

The Pakistani Taliban released a video – apparently dated early April – of their leader promising an attack on major US cities “in some days or a month”, a monitoring group said today.

The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the failed car bomb attack in Times Square in New York City, according to a message released on the internet.

In a tape released by al-Qaida’s media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is “powerless” to stop the war in Afghanistan.

Barack Obama’s plan to nearly double American troop numbers in Afghanistan needs to be matched by a similar surge in development workers and aid funding, Nato’s secretary general says.

German authorities are evaluating a purported al-Qaida video in which a speaker appears to threaten Germany over its military presence in Afghanistan.

Current US economic troubles are proof that Muslims were on the verge of victory, a prominent American member of al-Qaida said in an English-language video released today.

Osama bin Laden will release a new internet message dealing with Israel and the Palestinians, a terrorism monitoring group has claimed.

Counter-terrorism officials in the US were analysiing a new video of Osama bin Laden tonight ahead of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden will be addressing the American people on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a new video, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist websites.

Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden will be addressing the American people on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a new video, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist websites.

An American member of al-qaida threatened foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world in a new video, saying they would targeted as “spy dens”.