British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that Baghdad government had played the lead role in Mr Moore’s release and that Britain made no “substantive concessions to the kidnappers.
A soldier died in an explosion today while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A senior official at a Dubai university says the man suspected of trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas studied there through the middle of this year but is no longer a student.
WASHINGTON – A 23-year-old Nigerian man was charged in a federal criminal complaint today with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Christmas Day, and with placing a destructive device on the aircraft.
The Metropolitan Police are carrying out searches in the UK after a suspected al Qaeda operative allegedly attempted to blow up a US passenger jet.
A senior U.S. counterterror official says a passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in Detroit was planning to blow up the plane but the explosive device failed.
The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and a Muslim preacher linked by US intelligence to deaths at a US army base are believed to have died in a Yemen air strike, a security official said today.
PAKTIA, Dec. 21 – Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate carried out martyrdom operation led by Qari Ma’zullah ,resident of Logaar along with Qari Hamzah ,resident of Logar and Siddiqullah, Noorullah, and Qari Abdul Hanaan,residents of Khost out in the province’s Gardiz twon on Monday .
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Two British soldiers working for the NATO-led force and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province on Tuesday, an Afghan military official said.
The four Afghan men detained in Poole under terror laws have been released without charge.
