United States President Barack Obama has said that the entire Al Qaeda leadership has been decimated and it would be "very difficult" for the group to stage a spectacular terror attack on the scale of the 9/11 strikes in near future.
An accountant in New York, who had dual United States and Australian citizenship, has pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Al Qeada.
Al Qeada-backed Chechen separatists may have been behind the Moscow suicide blasts. Security expert B Raman examines the surge in terror in Central Asia.
Against the backdrop of the killing of Al Qeada leader Osama bin Laden and the situation in Pakistan, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Monday took stock of the country's overall security scenario with the military top brass.
Asserting that Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami operational chief and Al Qeada commander Ilyas Kashmiri cannot dictate India, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said India is not deterred by his threats.
The early morning strike, part of a continued offensive by the army to flush out terrorists from the tribal region, triggered a fierce gun battle.
The officer claimed 88 Kashmiri youths joined militancy in 2016.
The number of terrorists killed in the past seven months this year is the highest in the same period over the past seven years.
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