The brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri has been arrested in Egypt, officials say.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa

An intercepted secret message between al Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger for the current shutdown of many US embassies.

Austria announced it is withdrawing 377 UN peacekeepers from the Golan Heights after Syrian rebels briefly overran a crossing point near the border with Israel, a development that has deepened concerns the civil war is spreading to neighbouring countries.

Al-Qaida’s leader has urged Sunni Muslims to spare no effort to join the battle in Syria, overthrow President Bashar Assad and set up Islamic rule in the country.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law has pleaded not guilty to plotting against Americans in his role as al Qaida’s leading spokesman as a landmark case trying a terror suspect on US soil moves forward.

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

The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

Al-Qaida’s leader has lashed out at Afghan clerics and politicians who support the Kabul government in an audio message posted today.

AL-QAIDA’S new leader called on Libyan fighters who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi to set up an Islamic state and urged Algerians to revolt against their longtime president in an internet video posted yesterday.

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.

Al-Qaida has selected its longtime number two to succeed Osama bin Laden after last month’s US commando raid that killed the terror leader, according to a statement posted on a website affiliated with the network.

Osama bin Laden’s deputy has warned that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies.

OSAMA bin Laden’s deputy has issued a eulogy for the slain al-Qaida chief, saying he “terrified America” when he was alive and would continue to do so in death.

William Maclean reports from London on a people’s uprising that spells bad news for terror group

AL-QAIDA’S No 2 offered his condolences in an audio message issued yesterday for the nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists killed in a confrontation with Israeli commandos, but slammed the Turkish government for its support of Israel.

Al-Qaida released a video aimed at demeaning Barack Obama in the eyes of its supporters today.

Al-Qaida today accused Iran of collaborating with the United States in a video message summarising the state of jihad.

In a rare English-language message believed to be from al-Qaida’s No 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri claimed Pakistan was now “virtually ruled from the American Embassy”.

Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy warned today that the terror group still has plans to target Western countries which have been involved in the Iraq war.

Al-Qaida’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri said five years of US occupation of Iraq brought only “failure and defeat” which the Bush administration would pass on as a “problem” to the next American president.

Al-Qaida’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri said in a new video posted today that the US was trying to hide its failures in Iraq and warned that the mujahedeen there were increasing in strength.

Al-Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri denounced last month’s Middle East peace conference in the United States as a “betrayal” of Palestinians in a new audio tape posted on an Islamic militant Web site today.

Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced today.

Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the US was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released today, the latest in a series put out by the terror network to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

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's Number 2 issued a new videotape tonight calling for Pakistanis to join the jihad, or holy war, in revenge for the attack by Pakistan's army on a radical mosque.

Osama Bin Laden’s number two has warned Gordon Brown that al-Qaida will attack Britain again in retaliation for awarding a knighthood to controversial author Salman Rushdie.

Al-Qaida’s Number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, has issued a new video tape calling on Muslims to unite in jihad, or holy war, and support the Islamist movement in Iraq, a US-based intelligence monitoring group said today.

Al-Qaida's deputy leader called on Muslims around the world to back Hamas with weapons, money and attacks on US and Israeli interests in a web audiotape today.

The brother and successor of dead Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah said in a television interview that he had received a letter from al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden expressing condolences for his brother's death.

Al-Qaida’s Number 2 mocked both US President George Bush and the US Congress bill setting a pullout timetable for US troops from Iraq, in a new insurgent video intercepted tonight by a US-based group.

Al-Qaida’s number-two leader tonight criticised the Palestinian group Hamas for agreeing to respect past agreements with Israel as part of an accord to form a national unity government.

Al-Qaida today posted a video showing what it claimed to be an attack by its fighters seizing a US-Afghan post in southern Afghanistan, in what experts said was a step-up in the terror group’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda.

Al-Qaida’s No 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, blasted US President George Bush, saying he had been an alcoholic and was now a liar who gambled on the American people in Iraq and lost, according to a new audiotape released today.

The deputy leader of terror group al-Qaida mocked US President George W Bush’s plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, in a new videotape broadcast tonight.

Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers have entered Kismayo, the last major stronghold of a militant Islamic movement, residents said today.

Al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, has attacked the leaders of Egypt and the Palestinians, accusing them of betraying Islam and collaborating with the US and Israel, according to an Internet statement published in his name today.

Fighting erupted today on the outskirts of Somalia's militant Islamic movement's last remaining stronghold as thousands fled advancing Ethiopian troops supported by tanks and MiG fighter jets.

Osama bin Laden’s deputy has accused moderate Arab leaders of being traitors for co-operating with the US and its allies in an audiotaped greeting marking the most important Islamic holiday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said today he would not rule out new unity-government talks with Hamas, despite more than a week of factional violence between his Fatah party and the Islamic militant group.

The deputy leader of the al-Qaida terror group, Ayman al-Zawahri, has spoken out against early elections in the Palestinian territories, saying in a video tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera today that elections would not lead to “liberation”.

Thousands of angry tribesmen and Islamists protested today across Pakistan against an airstrike that killed 80 people at a religious school near the Afghan border this week, as state TV aired video footage purportedly showing militants in training there before the attack.

Al Qaida No 2 Ayman al-Zawahri condemned US President George Bush in a video statement released tonight, calling him a failure and a liar.