CNN's Barbara Starr reports on an investigation into the U.S. intelligence community.
A man identified as Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, promises his followers victory in Afghanistan and Iraq, vowing that these wars will eventually lead to a battle to liberate Jerusalem, in an audio message posted Monday on jihadist websites.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed in a statement posted online that two of its two most senior leaders have been killed.
The two most senior leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq have been killed in a joint Iraqi-U.S. operation, officials announced Monday.
The White House credits Iraqi security forces with securing Iraq following the deaths of two senior al-Qaeda leaders.
The number of Christian families who have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week has reached 1,350, authorities said Wednesday.
Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant has conveyed leaders' dissatisfaction with al Qaeda's operations in Iraq, according to the U.S. military, which says it has uncovered letters authored by the terror outfit's No. 2 man.
The U.S. government has reduced by millions the reward for the capture or killing al Qaeda in Iraq's leader because he's no longer worth the price tag, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
Who is al-Masri?
updated: Fri May 09 2008 07:58:00
In a 2006 report CNN's Barbara Starr looks at the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. (June 14, 2006)
The U.S. military in Iraq denied widespread reports Friday that trumpeted the capture of a top Iraqi insurgent leader.
CNN's Jaime McIntyre discusses Associated Press reports that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been arrested.
The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling on political parties to unite against armed groups in Iraq, a spokesman said Sunday, warning that "Iraq cannot be the new Somalia."
Britain's Home Office has signed an extradition order that will send accused terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States for prosecution, CNN has confirmed.
A British court ruled Thursday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States, a member of al-Masri's defense team confirmed to CNN, though any final decision on extradition is still several months away.
The U.S. military on Wednesday announced the arrest of a senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, an insurgent who, the military said, is casting himself as a "conduit" between the top leaders of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in Iraq.
A U.S. military commander said Thursday that an al Qaeda in Iraq militant believed to be involved in last year's kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll has been killed.
A U.S. military spokesman Wednesday said the status of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri is unclear following reports that he was killed in fighting on Tuesday.
Reports of fighting between al Qaeda in Iraq and Sunni militants surfaced Tuesday, the latest hints of rising tensions between the two allied groups.
The Anbar Salvation Council claims it killed al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri in fighting Tuesday.
Two insurgents were killed in a firefight Friday with U.S. troops in Baghdad after militants fired on the soldiers from a mosque, the U.S. military said.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq, was arrested Friday in western Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
The U.S. military on Friday cast doubt on a report from the Iraqi government that al Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded in clashes with police.
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded and his top aide killed in a clash with police, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN Thursday.
A purported audio recording by the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq vows to step up the group's fight against the United States, saying, "We haven't had enough of your blood yet."
The U.S. military and the Iraqi government denied on Thursday that al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was recently killed by U.S. forces.
The U.S. military Thursday denied reports that al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been killed by U.S. forces in a raid.
For a second day, gunmen dressed as Iraqi government forces staged a mass kidnapping Monday, raiding several computer stores in central Baghdad and seizing at least 14 people, a Baghdad emergency police official told CNN.
Iraq's national security adviser Sunday issued a warning to the new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, telling Abu Ayyub al-Masri that Iraqi troops are close to getting him "either as a corpse or tied up to face justice soon."
A man identified as the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq said on an audiotape Thursday that more than 4,000 foreign fighters have died battling the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi troops.
An explosion ripped through crowds of shoppers stocking up before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Saturday and killed at least 34 of them, Baghdad police said.
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq urged his followers to kill at least one American in the next two weeks using a sniper rifle, explosive or "whatever the battle may require," according to an audiotape that aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera.
Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday called for an independent Iraqi investigation or at least a joint U.S.-Iraqi probe into the March killings of an Iraqi female and three members of her family as well as her alleged rape.
Iraq unveiled a list of the country's most-wanted fugitives Sunday, including Saddam Hussein's wife and daughter.
Osama bin Laden in a tape posted on the Web encourages Sunnis in Iraq to retaliate against Shiites, deviating from al Qaeda's stand of not promoting sectarian violence.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice authorized up to a $5 million reward Friday for information leading to the capture of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, believed to be the replacement for the late leader of al Qaeda in Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The man who might be the new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. The 20th hijacker. Two men called Mohammad Khan.
The bodies of two U.S. soldiers found in Iraq Monday night were mutilated and booby-trapped, military sources said Tuesday.
The U.S. military on Thursday revealed for the first time a photo of the man said to be the new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
A week after the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. military and intelligence don't have a concrete answer as to who his successor is -- or if he even exists.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has named a successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader killed in a U.S. airstrike last week north of Baghdad, Islamist Web sites said Monday.
British police are facing criticism over the length of time it took them to take action against radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is starting a seven-year prison sentence for inciting the murder of non-believers.
Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri is perhaps the most high-profile radical Islamic figure in Britain.
Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty on 11 terror-related charges, including soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.
Jurors at the trial of radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri have started to consider their verdict on charges of inciting murder of Jews and other non-Muslims and fomenting racial hatred.
Preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri has told jurors in his race hate trial he kept plans of the royal military academy Sandhurst that he admitted would be "very crucial to any terrorist."
The jury in the trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri has heard recorded sermons of the Muslim cleric telling followers to "join the front line" in the fight against infidels and calling for children to be trained for a violent struggle.
The jury trying Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on race hate charges -- including soliciting murder -- has been warned by a judge to ignore what they had read or heard about him in the media.
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has appeared in a British court accused of inciting his followers to kill Jews and other non-Muslims.
A man British investigators have told Pakistani authorities they want to interview as part of the London bombings inquiry was previously implicated in a U.S. investigation, officials familiar with both investigations said.
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been arrested in London on an extradition warrant issued by the U.S. government and is due in court later Thursday to answers charges relating to terrorism.
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, the man arrested Thursday in London, is one of the most controversial Muslim figures in Britain.
Controversial UK-based Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been charged with providing material support to terrorists and aiding a kidnapping in an 11-count U.S. indictment released in New York Thursday.
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