Topic: Ansar al Islam

A hit list, published by an Islamist sect in Bangladesh, promises to kill writers and bloggers around the world who are critical of Islam.

Iraqi security forces seized an alleged terrorist leader and other members of a group responsible for jihadist recruitment, U.S. military officials said.

Iraqi security forces under U.S. supervision captured several insurgent members of Sunni terrorist group Ansar al-Islam operating in the northern city of Mosul.

Iraqi forces detained several militants affiliated with the Ansar al-Sunna militant organization in Kirkuk amid raids on a telecommunications facility.

The former head of Ansar al Islam allegedly made threats against Norway days after a court upheld a state expulsion order saying he was a security threat.

An Iraqi Kurd living in Germany in a landmark trial was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for being a member of a terrorist organization.

German prosecutors have charged three Iraqis with plotting to kill Iraq's former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi last December.

Iraqi officials want Mullah Krekar, currently in Norway, to be extradited for alleged crimes committed in Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.

A radical Islamic group whose former leader is a refugee in Norway killed 49 people in a prison massacre in 2003, according to a Norwegian immigration official.

Three Iraqis were arrested in Germany on suspicion of funding Ansar al-Islam in Iraq, which the United States says is an al-Qaida-linked group.