An air strike killed al Qaida’s second in command in Yemen along with six others travelling with him in a car, US and Yemeni officials said.

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.

FBI experts are picking apart the sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to discover if it was capable of getting past airport security and blowing up a commercial plane.

A US man accused of becoming an al-Qaida agent discussed bombing New York cinemas, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the Stock Exchange before settling on the city’s subways, a court heard today.

A Nigerian who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al Qaida started a life sentence without parole today.

A Nigerian who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al-Qaida has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A Detroit federal judge is refusing to set aside a federal law which demands a mandatory life sentence for a Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up an international flight bound for Detroit on Christmas 2009.

NEW York police have arrested a 27-year-old man they called a “lone wolf” militant on charges of plotting to build bombs to kill American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

A US citizen and al-Qaida sympathiser accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York remained in custody today on terrorism-related charges.

An “al-Qaida sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as US troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.

The media chief for al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch has been killed along with six other people in an airstrike, Yemen’s Defence Ministry said today.

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.

ANWAR al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, using his fluent English and internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed yesterday in the mountains of Yemen, US and Yemeni officials said.

US President Barack Obama has declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most active affiliate and vowed a vigorous US campaign to prevent the terror network and its partners from finding a haven anywhere in the world.

An American-born cleric killed in Yemen played a “significant operational role” in plotting and inspiring attacks on the US, officials said, as they disclosed detailed intelligence to justify the killing of a US citizen.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, has been killed in the mountains of Yemen.

A radical Yemeni cleric says upheavals gripping the Arab world are an opportunity for al-Qaida fighters to see more Mideast regimes crumble, including in Libya.

A JURY convicted a former British Airways computer specialist of plotting with US-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to blow up an airplane.

A former British Airways computer expert was convicted today of conspiring with a wanted terrorist to blow up a plane.

HUNDREDS of videos inciting violence, including some linked to the suspected al-Qaida mastermind of the cargo plane terror plot, were removed from YouTube yesterday.

The terrorists behind the airline ink bomb plot could not have known exactly where their packages were when they were set to explode, even after a suspected test run, US security sources said today.

A student in Britain who tried to murder a Labour MP after being inspired by a radical al Qaida cleric linked to the air cargo bomb plot is due to be sentenced today.

A US-born al-Qaida-linked cleric has been charged in his absence with plotting to kill foreigners, prosecutors in Yemen said today.

A parcel carrying the mail bomb found in Dubai travelled on two separate passenger planes, it was revealed today.

The British government's emergency committee COBRA is to meet this morning to discuss security after suspicious packages were found at East Midlands airport and on a plane in Dubai.

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.

THE US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a report compiled by the former heads of the 9/11 commission.

A British woman and her American husband accused over a domestic terrorism plot have admitted lying about the existence of a hit list of possible targets.

YEMEN will refuse to hand over a US-born, al-Qaida-linked cleric to the United States if he is captured because its law bans extradition of citizens, an official said yesterday.

The man accused of attempting to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day was recruited by al-Qaida in London, a senior minister in Yemen’s government claimed today.

US federal agencies are blaming each other over security lapses involving the Fort Hood massacre gunman Nidal Hasan.

NEARLY a year before Major Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.

The FBI knew that the US officer who massacred 13 people at the Fort Hood base had repeated contact with a radical imam overseas.