Osama bin Laden will release a new video in advance of Sept. 11 anniversary. The White House said Thursday that any new video from bin Laden would serve to highlight threats the West faces.

The Bank of England has issued this news release in respect of the financial measures taken against Al-Qaida and the Taliban.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told more than 600 Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders they must cooperate against Taleban and al Qaida fighters.

U.S. President George Bush says he is confident that Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf has both the desire and the ability to hunt down al-Qaida terrorists along the border with Afghanistan.

U.S. President George W. Bush today reiterated his view that Iraq is central to the U.S.-led war on terror. Speaking to an audience of U.S. servicemen, Bush said "there will be a big defeat in Iraq and it will be the defeat of Al-Qaida."

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the al-Qaida terrorist network is expanding in North Africa, through a loose network of groups that share its ideology.

An Iraqi delegation headed to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to hold negotiations over fighting the al-Qaida terror network, a senior Iraqi official said.

The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq warned Iran to stop supporting Shiites in Iraq, giving leaders in the neighboring country two months to severe ties or they would face a "severe war."

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the alliance must do everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties in Afghanistan. But he warned that NATO opponents in Afghanistan cannot be put on the same moral ground as alliance forces.

The deputy leader of al-Qaida has called on all Muslims to support the Islamic militant group Hamas with money and weapons.

The U.S. military in Iraq says troops killed seven terrorists and detained another 10 suspects during operations Saturday and Friday targeting leaders and fighters of the group al-Qaida in Iraq.

A Pakistani official has told a visiting U.S. diplomat that al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and Taleban leader Mullah Omar are not hiding in southwestern Pakistan. Jam Mohammed Yousaf, the top elected official in southwestern Baluchistan province, also told Richard Boucher that Pakistan is doing all it can to secure the border with Afghanistan.