While 10 operatives were Myanmarese, five were from Bangladesh, the sources said.
The chief of Al Qaeda's global operations, wanted by the United State over a 2009 plot to attack the New York subway system, was killed in a raid in Pakistan's restive tribal region, the country's military said.
In the video titled 'From France to Bangladesh: The Dust Will Never Settle Down', AQIS chief Maulana Asim Umar mentioned Prime Minister Modi in the context of what he claims to be a war against Muslims.
Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, and Misbahuddin Ahmed, who is believed to be born in India, and both from Ottawa, and Khurram Syed Sher of London, were charged on Thursday for an alleged terror plot
Born in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh on October 5, 1951, Mohammed Mazhar, lives at ST 1/A, Block 2, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, and carries three Pakistani passports (KZ 550207, KC550207 and G15429), the Treasury said.
Al Qaeda, which has announced the creation of a separate wing for India, wants to portray Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an enemy of Islam and as such India should take its threat "very seriously", a well-known American counter-terror expert said on Friday even as the United States tried to downplay the terrorist outfit's capabilities.
The 11-page chargesheet, which was filed in a New York federal court, said that five of the accused had received training from Al Qaeda in Waziristan in 2008 and early 2009. US prosecutors have accused Al Qaeda leadership of directing the accused to attack the New York subway system last year.
The Al Qaeda's ability to wage mass-casualty terrorism has been undercut by relentless US attacks on the network's leadership, finances and training camps. But it also warns that despite this weakened state, the group has shifted tactics to focus on small-scale operations that are far harder to detect and disrupt.The deadly November shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and the failed Christmas Day attempt to bomb an airline.
The United States is dealing with the Al Qaeda element on the Pakistan side of the border, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel conceded and acknowledged that its drone programme has been pretty successful.
The Taliban is ready to completely disown the Al Qaeda, and is willing to work with the United States to improve security in Afghanistan, a major report has disclosed.
Defeated by the US-led international forces in Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda leaders have established a safe haven in Pakistan, President Barack Obama has said.
A Pakistani-origin taxi driver, with suspected links to Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami chief Ilyas Kashmiri, has been indicted on charges of "knowingly" attempting to aid the Al Qaeda.
A 32-year-old man from Haryana's Mewat district has been arrested by Delhi Police for suspected links with Al Qaeda.
Predicting the "defeat" of Pakistani military in its fight against the Taliban in North West Frontier Province, a top Al-Qaeda commander on Monday warned that if his group takes over Islamabad's nuclear weapons, it will "use them" against the United States.
The figure, based on testimony by senior US intelligence officials to a joint inquiry by the US Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees, is at least three times higher than previous estimates.
Expressing concern over violence in the Middle East, Musharraf said dangers loomed large in the region that threatened regional and global peace.
In his memoirs, Lord Stevens, former metropolitan police commissioner, said he ordered a secret operation to protect the prime minister and his wife after receiving intelligence about the plot, weeks before the event in June 2002.
A pistol of 9 mm calibre, laptop, mobile phones, USD 2,000, 13,000 in Bangladeshi currency and Indian rupees were recovered from him.
Mohammad Afroze has been found guilty under Sections 120-b (conspiracy) and Section 126 of the Indian Penal Code (committing depredation on territories of power at peace with the Government of India).
'The majority of Indian Muslims abroad -- like their counterparts in India -- have kept a distance from extremist and jihadi activities.'
US President Barack Obama has said Pakistan must co-operate more fully with the United States to go after and wipe out al-Qaeda.
A top Al-Qaeda commander has reportedly been killed in a US drone attack in South Waziristan's Ladha region. Fox News reported that neither Al-Qaeda chief Osama-bin-Laden or Qaeda's second man-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri were among those killed in the attack.
Afroze was arrested on December 3, 2001 on charges of conspiring with terrorist outfit al Qaeda to bomb the House of Commons in UK, Parliament House in India and Radio Towers in Australia.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has all but confirmed the Central Intelligence Agency's assertions that certain elements in Pakistan are working with the Al Qaeda and undermining the United States-led war on terror. "I would say they're not our theoretical ally; they are our ally," she said, but acknowledged, "there are elements in Pakistan that one worries that there are connections to the militants in the region."
In a new audio tape, released on jihadist forums two days after the eight anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Osama advises how the conflict between Al-Qaeda and the US may come to a close.
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American blogger Avijit Roy in Bangladesh.
This is the first explicit claim of responsibility for the blasts, which claimed 56 lives, by the terrorist group headed by Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility for London blasts
The Mumbai terror attack was an audacious attempt by the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Lashkar-e-Taiyba combine to shape policies of the three sovereign nations that include the oldest and the largest democracy," Dutt said. But Dutt's remark, which was aired on television, is reported to have not gone down well with the Union Home Ministry officials as it could be seen as sensationalising the attack by bringing in Al Qaeda's name.
An Indian national has been arrested in Spain for alleged links with the al-Qaida and India has sought consular access to him, Indian government said here on Wednesday. The name of the arrested Indian has been given as Jangeet Singh, sources said citing information received from the Indian embassy in Spain.
India-born American citizen Ahmed Kauser Mohammed has been sentenced to 15 years in jail by a United States court for providing thousands of dollars in material support to the Al Qaeda and other terrorist organisations.
United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday said the principal goal of his administration is to root out Al Qaeda and other extremist organisations, but refused to give any preview of his policy on Afghanistan which he is expected to unveil soon.
President Barack Obama warned the Al-Qaeda and its leaders that the US would target them not only in their bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan but also in any part of the world where they take roots.
Al Qaeda's leadership has a habit of appointing men affiliated to Kashmiri militant groups in positions of leadership, says Amir Mir
Al Qaeda is battered, and is on the brink of breakdown. At least that is what a new book published by the most dreaded terrorist outfit says. The book, says a report on Fox News, throws light into the fact that the outfit is under intense pressure from the United States' counter-terror operations in Pakistan.
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