Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri has mocked U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.

Pakistan has rejected U.S. accusations that it harbors Al-Qaeda leaders, saying that the United States has not given Pakistan any such information.

The Pentagon today confirmed that U.S. forces conducted an air strike against a suspected Al-Qaeda cell in Somalia on January 7.

Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar says he has not seen fellow fugitive Osama bin Laden since U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban regime from Afghanistan in late 2001.

new report released on December 18 by the U.S. Department of Defense painted a bleak picture of the security situation in Iraq, saying that attacks on U.S. and Iraqi targets have surged since August, and that Shi'ite militants are now the most significant threat in Baghdad and responsible for more civilian deaths and injuries than terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda..