Ayman Al-Zawahiri

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The US National Security Agency’s eavesdropping mission includes radio broadcasting, both from various organisations and individuals, the Internet, telephone calls, and other intercepted forms of communication. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Beware world! Big Brother is listening and watching…

The US and some other countries have an array of space satellites orbiting at preselected trajectories to watch over their areas of interest

09 Aug 2022 12:08 AM

K.C. Singh | After Zawahiri: Be alert for Afghan churn, J&K fallout

US President Joe Biden proclaimed, like his predecessors did after killing high-value militants, that 'now justice has been delivered'

05 Aug 2022 12:25 AM

Al-Qaeda chief Zawahiri killed in US drone strike in Kabul

The 71-year-old Egyptian surgeon, on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, had a USD 25 million bounty on his head

03 Aug 2022 6:56 AM

Pervez Musharraf can be heard saying, "Kashmiris who came to Pakistan received a hero reception here. We used to train them and support them.' (Photo: File)

Pervez Musharraf says ‘Osama bin Laden was Pakistan's hero'; see video

During the interview, Gen (retd) Musharraf also said that terrorist like Osama bin Laden and Jalaluddin Haqqani were 'Pakistani heroes' .

14 Nov 2019 12:22 PM

And before he became Asim Umar, he was Sana-ul-Haq, a peasant’s son from Uttar Pradesh, who disappeared from his home in 1995 to begin his new life in Pakistan. (Photo: ANI)

South Asia Qaeda chief and India-born terrorist killed on joint US-Afghan raids

Before he became one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists, Umar was the author of several best-selling jihadist fantasies.

11 Oct 2019 2:56 PM

Umar, who was in early 40s, was designated as a "global terrorist" by the US which placed the AQIS on the list of "foreign terrorist organisation" in 2016. (Photo: ANI)

Al-Qaeda's South Asia chief killed in Afghanistan: report

Asim Umar, who led the AQIS from its formation in 2014, was killed during a joint US-Afghan raid on a Taliban compound.

09 Oct 2019 12:52 PM

Our security forces are well equipped and capable of maintaining our territorial integrity & sovereignty. (Photo: ANI)

'No need to take them seriously': MEA on Al-Qaeda chief's threat to India

'We listen to these kinds of threats on a daily basis,' MEA's Raveesh Kumar said.

11 Jul 2019 4:50 PM

Thomas Joscelyn, in his article for the journal, wrote that Al Qaeda has been grooming an upstart group to wage jihad against the Indian forces in Kashmir. (Photo: AP)

Al-Qaeda chief threatens India over Kashmir, says Pak Army can't be trusted

Zawahiri also told his terrorists not to target 'mosques, markets, and gathering places of Muslims' in Kashmir during his message.

10 Jul 2019 12:59 PM

In a five-minute video entitled 'Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims,' the Egyptian doctor who took charge of the global terror group after its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 referred to the Palestinian Authority as the 'sellers of Palestine' while urging followers to take up arms. (Photo: AFP)

Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri calls for jihad on eve of US embassy move to Jerusalem

Top US officials have meanwhile insisted they could still push forward the troubled peace process despite outrage across the Arab world.

14 May 2018 2:24 PM

Riedel told the weekly that Karachi would be a "very hard" place for the US to conduct the kind of commando raid that got bin Laden on May 2, 2011. (Photo: AFP)

Pak's ISI sheltering bin Laden's mentor Zawahiri, son in Karachi: report

This is for the first time in several years a news report has surfaced about the hiding location of the al-Qaeda chief.

22 Apr 2017 4:52 PM

Jihadist bosses in war of words over future caliphate

The 65-year-old Zawahiri complained that Al-Baghdadi had alleged that Al-Qaeda opposed sectarian attacks on Shias

07 Jan 2017 6:24 AM

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