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AL QAIDA

Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 12, 2014
In Fallujah, al-Qaida fails to learn from its past
The details were barely reported at the time by the world's media: the killing on Dec. 21 in the west of Iraq's Sunni-dominated Anbar province of 24 Iraqi Army personnel, including the commander of the 7th Division.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 12, 2014
'Architect of 9/11' exchanges letters with pen pal
Details from an extraordinary exchange of letters between a care worker from Nottingham, in England's East Midlands, and the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks were revealed Saturday, offering an unprecedented insight into the mind of one the world's most notorious Islamic militants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 18, 2013
U.S. considers military trial for Russian detainee
The Obama administration is actively considering the use of a military commission in the United States to try a Russian who was captured fighting with the Taliban several years ago and has been held by the U.S. military at a detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, former and current...
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 17, 2013
In Syria, jihadists train 'children of al-Qaida'
At first glance, the training camp appears no different from the many others shown in propaganda videos posted by al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria. Hooded recruits in camouflage shoot at targets or march in formation under the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 29, 2013
Karzai says U.S. drone strike killed 2-year-old
Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the United States of launching a drone strike that killed a 2-year-old child Thursday and vowed to not sign a long-term security agreement if similar attacks continue.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 20, 2013
Deadly blasts in Lebanon linked to Syrian war, sectarian divisions
The debris-strewn, bloodstained street outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut lay as mute testimony of another dark day in Lebanon on Tuesday, when nearly two dozen people were killed in a double suicide bombing, the latest in a string of sectarian attacks to blight the country.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 17, 2013
Turkey confronts policy missteps over Syria
A group affiliated with al-Qaida controls the road leading south into Syria from the key Kilis border crossing on the front line of the debacle that Turkey's Syria policy has become.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2013
Assad loyalists gaining ground in civil war
Forces loyal to the Syrian government are taking advantage of deepening rifts among Syria's feuding rebels to advance into rebel-held territory in the northern part of the country, overturning some long-held assumptions about the war.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2013
Unsung heroes emerge in stories of Kenyan mall attack
A little after half-past midday on a sunny Saturday a disturbing call came through to Mark and John at the Nairobi offices of the oil company for which they work.
WORLD
Nov 2, 2013
Man claims he told U.S. of bin Laden home in '03
AP — A U.S. businessman says he told federal investigators the location of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan years before the al-Qaida leader's assassination and is seeking a $25 million reward.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 2, 2013
Obama meets Iraq's al-Maliki, remains mum on arms sales
President Barack Obama assured visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday that the United States wants to be a strong partner in bringing about a stable and inclusive Iraq amid a rapid spike in sectarian violence that threatens security across the country.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 28, 2013
Al-Qaida affiliate shakes Iraq with surge of violence
Nearly two years after the U.S. troop withdrawal, Iraq is in the midst of a deepening security crisis as an al-Qaida affiliate wages a relentless campaign of attacks, sending the death toll soaring to its highest level since 2008.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 19, 2013
Guantanamo's fate tied to Afghan exit
The approaching end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan could help President Barack Obama move toward what he has said he wanted to do since his first day in office: close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Oct 15, 2013
Pitched battle of perception surrounds Guantanamo prison
Weeds now grow where nearly two dozen kneeling and blindfolded men in orange jumpsuits were photographed as guards in fatigues looked on.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2013
U.S. 'forcibly' took custody of militant leader, Afghans say
The United States recently seized a senior Pakistani Taliban commander in eastern Afghanistan, snatching him from the custody of Afghan intelligence operatives who had spent months trying to recruit him as an interlocutor for peace talks, Afghan government officials charged Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2013
Nairobi shows jihadist terror still poses a threat
We cannot defend every shopping mall in the world against terrorist attack. We are just going to have to live with the threat, and for some considerable time to come.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 24, 2013
Al-Shabab nimbler under new leader
The attack that killed 69 people in a Kenyan shopping mall over the weekend was the first regional operation undertaken by the new leadership of Somalia's al-Shabab militants following a bloody power struggle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 24, 2013
Americans, Briton 'among Nairobi mall attackers'
Kenya's foreign minister says 'two or three Americans' and 'one Brit' were among the al-Qaida-linked militants who took part in the deadly terrorist attack on an upscale Nairobi shopping mall.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 4, 2013
Al-Qaida hopes to sabotage, destroy drones
Cells of engineers are working to exploit vulnerabilities of the weapons system, so far but they have not succeeded, a classified report finds.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 28, 2013
Strike on Syria could draw U.S. into protracted conflict
An imminent U.S. strike on Syrian government targets in response to the alleged gassing of civilians last week has the potential to draw the United States into the country's civil war, former U.S. officials say.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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