Zawahiri

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Saturday said there was no evidence or information on death or wounding of al-Qaida's No.2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The evidence is not available on the al-Qaida leader's death or injury in a suspected US strike, Dawn News TV channel quoted the spokesman, Athar Abbas, as saying. A US media report claimed that al-Zawahiri had been critically injured, and might be possibly dead, in a suspected US missile strike in northwestern Pakistan on Monday.

CAIRO, Qahirah: Egyptian authorities have arrested Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahiri , for supporting ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, a security source told AFP on Saturday. The brother was arrested in his home district of Giza, adjacent to the capital, the source said.

NEW YORK: Al Qaida's No. 2 commander appeared on Wednesday in a new video on a website used by Islamist militant groups, urging unity in jehad and calling for the overthrow of "corrupt" Muslim governments in the region. Zawahiri said in the message that the defeat of the West is imminent, and that "the enemy" is trying to forestall the inevitable. "The good omens of the new dawn of victory have begun to loom on the horizon, with Allah's permission and will," he said.

DUBAI: Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was betrayed by his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri who led US forces to his hideout as the two were involved in an intense power struggle, a Saudi newspaper has reported. The two top al-Qaida men had differences and the courier who led US forces to bin Laden was working and had more loyalties for Zawahiri, al Watan newspaper reported quoting Arab sources. "The Egyptian faction of al-Qaida led by Zawahiri was de facto running the...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia arrested two suspected members of al-Qaida who may have been plotting against Western embassies in the Middle East, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. The two men, a Yemeni and a Chadian national, had contacts with the Yemeni branch of the terror network, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), state news agency SPA quoted ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki as saying. The Chadian suspect had been expelled from Saudi Arabia but returned with a...

WASHINGTON/LONDON: The United States on Tuesday ordered Americans to leave Yemen "immediately" amid a worldwide alert linked to electronic intercepts from al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The alert, in which the State Department said it had ordered all non-essential staff out of Yemen, came hours after a drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants there and two days after the closure of some two dozen embassies in the Middle East and Africa. Britain also...

LONDON: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri had appeared on Facebook, but the social networking site later removed those pages. Less than a fortnight after Osama bin Laden came on Facebook, The Sun revealed that al-Zawahiri, who has a 16.5 million-pound price on his head, also appeared on the site. Facebook said: "These pages have been removed. " Two more pages linked to the Taliban were also removed. Zawahiri's...

ISLAMABAD: A religious school destroyed in an army air raid in Bajaur tribal agency was frequented by Al Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri who used it to train suicide bombers, Pakistani officials have said. The facility, known as Maulvi Liaquat's madrassa, was used for imparting training to new recruits with second and third-tier leadership of Al Qaida, by al-Zawahiri and his associates Abu Obaida al-Misri and Abu Farrah Libbi, top security officials told a briefing...

DUBAI: Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri slammed Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf as an enemy of Islam, in a first audio message in English posted online on Saturday. In the message, excerpts of which were aired by Pakistan's ARY One television last week, Zawahiri also dismissed the Pakistani army as a "band of mercenaries" controlled by the US administration. "Pervez (Musharraf) has proven himself to be one of the biggest enemies of Islam, if the...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan military asked the US to share "actionable intelligence" about terrorist leaders believed to be hiding in the country's tribal belt, including al-Qaida's new emir Ayman al-Zawahiri , so that it could conduct targeted operations against them. "We expect the US intelligence establishment to share available information and actionable intelligence regarding al-Zawahiri and other high value targets with us, enabling the Pakistan Army...

WASHINGTON: Nine years after their mysterious disappearance following the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US still believes the two top al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are hiding in northwestern Pakistan. According to the latest report on al-Qaida and its expanding network by a powerful Congressional committee, the two leaders are in hiding in tribal areas on the Pakistan- Afghan border. The Senate Committee's...

The brother of the head of al-Qaida is reported to have been captured by regime forces in Syria. Mohamed al-Zawahiri is said to have been seized in Deraa in the south-west where he was meeting opposition activists. Rebel fighters insisted Mohamed al-Zawahiri was engaged on a humanitarian mission and had not been involved in violent acts. They also claimed that he had, in fact, proposed a local truce to enable aid to get through. However the Syrian regime is likely to try to capitalize on...

CAIRO: The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Ayman al-Zawahri praised as "honest and zealous" demonstrators who breached the American embassy in Cairo and attackers who stormed the US "mission" in Benghazi in violence linked to the film. The US ambassador and three others died in the September 11 attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city. The film...

LONDON: Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye after an accident during his youth and was a one-time member of the Muslim Brotherhood, his successor has claimed in a new video tribute to the terror mastermind. Ayman al-Zawahiri , made the claim in an hour-long video titled 'Days With The Imam'. It was an account of the life of bin Laden, who was killed in a US navy SEAL raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last year. Zawahiri revealed "for those who do...

KOLKATA: Ayman al Zawahiri , the al-Qaida chief, is in Pakistan, said Hillary Clinton , US secretary of state. Talking to a cross-section of young people in the La Martiniere Girls' School in Kolkata as part of a TV interview, Hillary on Monday said, "There are several significant leaders still on the run. Zawahiri is somewhere, we believe, in Pakistan. " "We want to disable al-Qaida and we have made a lot of progress in doing that ... We are all...

WASHINGTON: Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has asked Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military by staging uprisings on the 'Arab Spring' pattern and labelled the nation's army as "slaves of America" . Believed to be in deep hiding, Zawahiri surfaced for the first time in months to post a 10 minute video uploaded on jihadist forums, saying the Pakistan army was in "partnership with America" in a war against Islam....

LONDON: Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye after an accident during his youth and was a one-time member of the Muslim Brotherhood, his successor has claimed in a new video tribute to the terror mastermind. Ayman al-Zawahiri , made the claim in an hour-long video titled 'Days With The Imam'. It was an account of the life of bin Laden, who was killed in a US navy SEAL raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, last year. Zawahiri revealed "for those who do not...

ISLAMABAD: Al-Qaida emir Ayman al-Zawahiri has claimed that his terror group is holding a 70-year-old American aid expert abducted from Lahore and made a slew of demands for his release, including an end to US air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a video message, al-Zawahiri said Warren Weinstein, who was abducted by armed men in Lahore nearly four months ago, would be freed if America stops air strikes on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia ...

Eager to become the leader of al-Qaida , the then number two Aymen Zawahiri set up Osama bin Laden by repeatedly sending a human courier to his hiding place in Abbottabad who had been interrogated by the CIA, a new book by a former Seal Chuck Pfarrer has said. "Despite knowing that this operative was blown, Zawahiri used Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti to make repeated trips to Bin Laden's compound," says the book 'Seal Target Geronimo' written by a former SEAL, Chuck Pfarrer, and published on Tuesday.