Nov 17th, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama has promised to turn America's attention from the war in Iraq to what he calls the real war on terror: the fight against al-Qaida in Afghanistan. But the new administration may find its options are limited.
Nov 14th, 2008 · Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA has updated its official assessment of the al-Qaida terrorist network. Agency director Michael Hayden says al-Qaida remains the most present danger to the U.S. Hayden spoke Thursday in the midst of the presidential transition, the first during wartime in 40 years.
Nov 13th, 2008 · Nearly a thousand Saudi men are set to stand trial on charges of belonging to al-Qaida. The men are accused of involvement in a string of terrorist attacks in the kingdom earlier this decade.
Oct 19th, 2008 · Indonesia has gotten bad press for bombings by al-Qaida-linked militants and attacks on Christian churches. But the country is more tolerant than these acts suggest, and that tolerance seems to be growing. One sign: A preacher who waited 16 years has finally opened a Christian megachurch in Jakarta.
Oct 9th, 2008 · A draft report from U.S. intelligence agencies says Afghanistan faces a "downward spiral" as Taliban fighters threaten stability in the region. They're conducting more sophisticated attacks, increasingly encroaching on government and working more closely with al-Qaida, it says.
Sep 27th, 2008 · Al-Qaida increasingly has resorted to using women as suicide bombers in Iraq. So the country's police force hopes to combat that threat by recruiting its first female members.
Sep 26th, 2008 · The attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen earlier this month killed 17, including one American. The bombing by al-Qaida in Yemen marks a resurgence of militant violence in the nation, which has complex ties to Islamist militancy.
Sep 21st, 2008 · A huge truck bomb destroyed the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, killing more than 50 people in a terrorist attack that has shaken the country's new administration. Among the dead are at least one American, a German and the Czech ambassador to Pakistan, reports NPR's Phillip Reeves, who says investigators suspect al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban in the blast.