AL-ZARQARI IS KILLED IN IRAQ
Iraq's most-wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqari was killed in a safehouse by 500-pound bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes on June 7, 2006, it was announced on June 8, 2006. Al-Zarqari is shown in a U.S. Defense Department image after his death. (UPI Photo/Defense Department)
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A Washington legal organization says it wants to break through the "blind deference" of the federal courts to the executive branch when it comes to withholding classified material, and has embarked on what may be a quixotic attempt to gain access to photographs showing the death and burial of Osama bin Laden.
Supporters of Syrian rebels said 185 people were killed across the civil war-torn country Sunday, including 13 members of one family.
A top Somali militant wanted in the United States was killed amid clashes between members the terror group al-Shabaab, a spokesman for the group said.
The shadowy leader of al-Qaida in Iraq is the first commander of the organization's branches to openly defy the top jihadist leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who ordered him to stop claiming control of al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate, the al-Nusra Front.
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Hezbollah has taken heavy losses while backing regime forces in Syria, heightening concerns the Shiite movement's heading for a showdown with Sunni jihadists.
A series of bombings in Mogadishu shows that the al-Shabaab movement, allied to al-Qaida, remains a lethal force despite the loss of key strongholds.
Two months after French forces intervened in Mali, al-Qaida and its allies are under heavy pressure in the northern mountains.
Jihadists are becoming increasingly active in Jordan, already gripped by political crisis that could threaten the Hashemite throne.
Eleven Jordanians were held in an alleged al-Qaida-linked plot to attack civilian and government targets in Amman, including the U.S. Embassy, officials said.
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