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Insight: Local wars blur al Qaeda’s threat to West

YoopyaJul 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Osama bin Laden would not have approved. Spinoff groups from al Qaeda have become increasingly engrossed in insurgencies in Africa and the Middle

Mexico recounts votes from over half of polling booths

YoopyaJul 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Mexico’s election officials on Wednesday recounted votes from more than half the polling booths in Sunday’s presidential and congressional elections, responding to claims

Syria pummels rebels as battered city collects bodies

YoopyaJul 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Syrian artillery pounded a northwestern town on Wednesday and areas near the ghost city of Douma, where residents recovered mutilated corpses after a

Special Report: In Africa, a militant group’s growing appeal

YoopyaJul 5, 20120

(Reuters) – When Abdullahi slipped across the Kenya-Somali border to join the fighters of Islamist militant group al Shabaab in 2009, the livestock herder from

Yemen air strikes kill four al Qaeda suspects: witnesses

YoopyaJul 5, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – At least four suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in two air strikes, thought to have been carried out by U.S. drones on

Zimbabwe bid to take over schools illegal: minister

YoopyaJul 4, 20120

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s bid to force private schools to come under majority black control under a much contested empowerment law is illegal, the country’s

Factbox-Ansar Dine – black flag over northern Mali

YoopyaJul 4, 20120

Fighters from Ansar Dine, an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in northern Mali, have destroyed historic Sufi shrines in the ancient desert city of Timbuktu, triggering

Timbuktu tomb destroyers pulverise the history of Islam in Africa

YoopyaJul 4, 20120

(Reuters) – The al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who have used pick-axes, shovels and hammers to shatter earthen tombs and shrines of local saints in Mali’s

Elections to mark new start for Libya economy

YoopyaJul 4, 20120

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian TRIPOLI (Reuters) – For Tripoli businessman Salem Mohammed, Libya’s first elections in a generation on Saturday will pave the way for what

Car bomb in Iraq market kills three, wounds many

YoopyaJul 4, 20120

(Reuters) – A car bomb killed at least three people and wounded many others in a busy morning market in the mainly Shi’ite Muslim Iraqi