U.S. says expects al Qaeda to "lash out" in Iraq
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The U.S. military expects al Qaeda in Iraq to strike back with "spectacular attacks" after a major offensive in and around Baghdad disrupted the network's activities, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi made an unusually strong warning to Iraq's neighbors to crack down on insurgents infiltrating from their territory, saying Friday that Iraq's patience was wearing thin. Al Qaeda, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for a bold attack on U.S. troops.
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A video shown last week on Al-Jazeera reportedly by Osama bin Laden, has been posted on an Islamic web site. It warned of retaliation by Al-Qaeda, for Iraqis killed during the US-led invasion.
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Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message that focuses on Iraq, a terrorism monitoring group said Thursday.
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Osama bin Laden has directed al-Qaida's fury against Sunni Arab leaders in Iraq working with US forces
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Al Qaeda&#39;s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a videotape broadcast Monday al Qaeda would continue to attack the United States until Washington changed its policies toward the Muslim world.
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Osama bin Laden called for Iraqi insurgents to unite and avoid divisive "extremism," speaking in an audiotape aired Monday and apparently intended to win over Sunnis opposed to al-Qaida's branch in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, June 19 -- U.S. troops backed by helicopters and Bradley Fighting Vehicles launched a major offensive Tuesday to clear the Sunni extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq from its new stronghold in Diyala province north of the capital, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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An audio tape purportedly from al Qaeda  ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Monday urged insurgents in Iraq to  mobilize against U.S.-led forces and target supply lines to  prevent any attacks on other cities after Falluja.
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The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq warned Wednesday that al-Qaeda in Iraq was still capable of staging spectacular attacks despite a 50 percent drop in bombings and other violence in his region
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A purported cease-fire between al-Qaeda and Iraq's leading Sunni insurgent group could be bad news for the U.S.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, delivered a positive but cautious assessment Saturday of progress in Iraq over the previous year,citing the drop-off in violence over the latter half of the year but warning that insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq remains the...
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BAGHDAD -- The number two leader of Al Qaeda called on Muslims in Iraq to unite against their enemies in a lengthy video released yesterday, at a time when rifts have opened between some Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq and the US military has detained individuals it says are senior members of the organization.
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The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq vowed militants would avenge a Sunni woman who said she had been raped by members of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. forces believe the initial combat phase of a major offensive to clear al Qaeda from the Iraqi city of Baquba is nearly complete and any militants left could be confronted in the next 24 hours.
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The White House shot back on   Saturday at Osama bin Laden's warning of retaliation against   Shi'ites in Iraq by condemning the al Qaeda leader as a man of   dark vision who offers only chaos, war and misery.
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The new leader of al Qaeda in Iraq "slit   the throats" of two U.S. soldiers whose bodies were found near   Baghdad, according to a statement posted on the Internet on   Tuesday.