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Bombs kill eight at Pakistan election offices

Agence France-PresseApril 28, 2013 08:00

Two Taliban bomb attacks Sunday targeting the offices of election candidates in Pakistan killed at least eight people, officials said, the latest bloodshed ahead of polls next month. Violence has marred the campaign for the landmark May 11 general election, with more than 50 people dead in blasts and suicide attacks since April 11, according to an AFP tally, including more than 20 in the past three days.

Suspected Qaeda member remanded in custody in Spain

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 14:16

A Spanish judge Friday remanded in custody a suspected Al-Qaeda militant accused of links to extremists in Mali and bailed another man on the same charges, the court said. Judge Santiago Pedraz ordered Nouh Mediouni, 23, to be held in custody as a flight risk on charges of "membership of a terrorist organisation", according to a written ruling from the National Court. Police arrested Mediouni, who is of Algerian origin, on Tuesday in the northern Spanish city of Zaragoza.

Libya faces tough test over French embassy attack

Agence France-PresseApril 24, 2013 12:00

Tuesday's bomb attack on the French embassy highlighted the security situation in Libya, with extremists and militias gaining influence as Paris' intervention in Mali has tried to uproot radical Islam from the region. Since the fall of the regime of Moamer Kadhafi in October 2011, extremist Islamist have steadily gained influence. Many such groups amassed formidable stocks of weapons during the uprising against Kadhafi's regime.

Algeria hands death penalty in absentia to Qaeda chief

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 16:16

Jihadist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who Chad said was killed in Mali last month, and four members of his group were condemned to death in absentia by an Algerian court on Tuesday. Four other defendants present in court were jailed for 13 years and fined 1 million dinars (10,000 euros) each, with another two sentenced to one and nine years respectively. Mohamed Lamine Bencheneb, leader of the Islamist hostage-takers who was killed by Algerian troops during a four-day siege at the In Amenas gas plant in January, was given the death sentence posthumously.

Spain arrests two suspects with Al-Qaeda links

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 13:03

Spain on Tuesday arrested two men, one of Algerian and the other of Moroccan origin, who it said had links to Al-Qaeda militants in Mali. The interior ministry said the two had a "similar profile" to the suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon -- though a judicial official said they had no concrete links to the US attacks.

Spain arrests two suspects with Al-Qaeda links

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 10:00

Spain on Tuesday arrested two men, one of Algerian origin and the other of Moroccan origin, it said had links to Al-Qaeda militants in Mali. The interior ministry said the two had a "similar profile" to the suspects in the Boston bombings -- though a judicial official said they had no proven ties to the US attacks.

Spanish police arrest 2 suspected Islamic extremists

Agencia EFEApril 23, 2013 09:16

Madrid, Apr 23 (EFE).- Two suspected members of an Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, cell were arrested Tuesday in Spain, the National Police said. Spain's National Court, however, has not confirmed that the two suspects have links to the terrorist group. Nou Mediouni, an Algerian, was arrested in the eastern city of Zaragoza and Hassan El Jaaouani, a Moroccan, was detained in Murcia, a city in southeastern Spain. Investigators searched the suspects' residences, the National Police said.

Two men linked to al Qaeda in Mali arrested in Spain

Thomson ReutersApril 23, 2013 09:15

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain has arrested two North Africans suspected of links to the North African branch of the militant Islamist network al Qaeda, the government said on Tuesday, following an investigation lasting more than a year.

Spain arrests two Al-Qaeda suspects

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 06:02

Spanish police on Tuesday arrested two "suspected terrorists" believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Spain's interior ministry said. Officers "today detained two suspected terrorists of Al-Qaeda in Murcia and Zaragoza," with help from the French and Moroccan police, it said. One man of Algerian origin, Nou Mediouni, was arrested in the northern city of Zaragoza and one of Moroccan origin, Hassan El Jaaouani, in the southeastern region of Murcia.

In New Mexico desert, U.S. drone pilots learn the new art of war

Thomson ReutersApril 23, 2013 01:45

By Tabassum Zakaria HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, New Mexico (Reuters) - The tide of war may be receding, as President Barack Obama is fond of saying, but U.S. military demand for unmanned drones and their remote pilots is growing. Here in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Air Force has ramped up training of drone operators - even as the nation increasingly debates their use and U.S. forces prepare to leave Afghanistan.