Al-Qaida or its affiliates are active in these countries. The central terrorist organization al-Qaida is in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But its affiliates of all sorts -- from loosely ...

Al-Qaida has been subtly testing a new strategy. In the past couple of years, the group's affiliates have been trying their hand at governing — actually taking over territory and then trying to win ...

Another al-Qaida leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, was killed in Pakistan's tribal area by a U.S. drone strike in August. The hunt for top-level al-Qaida members continues in the wake of Osama bin Laden's ...

The death of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. airstrike is likely to test the terror group’s resolve and coherence – and possibly strain long-crafted ...

The good news is that nearly seven years after Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida appears to be battered. The bad news is that like a prize fighter, it is bloodied, but not bowed -- leaving it still capable of ...