Witnesses reported renewed air strikes aimed at Islamic militant targets in Somalia today, and a Somali official claimed that a senior al-Qaida figure had been killed.

A Somali official said today that an al-Qaida suspect who planned the 1998 US Embassy bombings was killed in airstrike.

The target of US air strikes in Somalia is one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists and the suspected mastermind of two major terrorist attacks in east Africa.

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.

Somalia's prime minister said today the suspects in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa are sheltering in the stronghold of his country's militant Islamic movement.

The United States was gripped by new fears of a terrorist attack today after warnings that al-Qaida planned to launch an assault in the coming months.

Four people are to be charged with the suicide bombing of a hotel popular with Israelis on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast.

TERROR alerts spread worldwide yesterday amid suspicions of new al-Qaida operations, but countries with tourist hotspots accused Britain of overreacting and the United States of being “afraid of its own shadow”.

Security officials and diplomats in the Gulf, the Far East and East Africa were tonight trying to piece together the strands of intelligence pointing to imminent major al-Qaida terror attacks.

Thousands of tourists were stranded in Kenya today as security forces hunted for a top al-Qaida suspect thought to be planning a rocket attack on an airliner.

More than a dozen mysterious hooded men who invaded the smallest island in the Comoros archipelago appear to have been mercenaries.

A dozen hooded men, claiming to be FBI, have landed on the smallest island in the Comoros archipelago off Mozambique