The top U.S. military officer says the missile strike that reportedly killed a key al-Qaida commander in northern Pakistan was a "very important" one in the war on terrorism.

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U.S., British and Afghan officials opened this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday with calls for greater effort to fight global terror and find peace in the Middle East. VOA's Barry Wood reports from Davos.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the United States sees an increasing threat of terrorist attacks coming from Western Europe. Tendai Maphosa has more in this report for VOA from London.

A new voice recording attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has appeared on the internet.

Two inmates have plead guilty to a terror plot that involved planned attacks against “enemies of Islam,” targeting both the US government and supporters of Israel.

A RAND Corporation study issued today gives rail security planners and policymakers a framework to develop cost-effective plans to secure their rail systems from terrorist attacks.

A parcel bomb explosion has killed one person and injured at least five others at law offices in Central Paris.

Slovak police arrest two Hungarians and a Ukrainian as they allegedly tried to sell uranium in powder form, enough to be used in terrorist attacks.

Saudi Arabia announced today that it has arrested 208 people with suspected ties to Al Qaeda over the last several months, with suspects belonging to as many as six different terrorist cells.

At least 13 lawyers were killed and dozens more were injured in near-simultaneous explosions that ripped through courthouse complexes in three north Indian cities.

Al Qaeda militants killed at least eight members of a neighbourhood police patrol in southern Baghdad after taking them by surprise by driving up in a stolen Iraqi army vehicle, police said.