A 22-year-old U.S. Marine Corps reservist with a suspicious backpack prompted authorities to temporarily close major roads around the Pentagon on Friday, but bomb experts determined it did not contain explosives.
The FBI said Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virginia, was taken into custody for...
Al Qaeda's long-serving number two, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken over the leadership after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group said on Islamist websites on Thursday.
Bin Laden's lieutenant and the brains behind much of al Qaeda's strategy, Zawahri vowed this month to press ahead...
CAIRO – Osama bin Laden's longtime deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, a fiery ideologue who is known for his deep hatred of the West and helped plan the 9/11 attacks, has taken control of al-Qaida after the death last month of the terror network's founder in a U.S. raid.
Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian-born...
emen's Gulf neighbors pledged on Tuesday to renew efforts to avert civil war on their doorstep over the fate of wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is clinging to power after months of protests against his rule.
Gulf states have tried repeatedly and in vain to broker an exit for Saleh...
(CNN) -- The United States and Yemen are taking on Islamic militants on the land and from the air amid fears that al Qaeda is exploiting the political chaos and leadership vacuum engulfing the unstable and impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
Yemeni government forces are trying to wrest the...
Washington (CNN) -- The United States cannot confirm that al Qaeda operational commander Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, Defense Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday, contradicting Pakistan's prime minister.
"There's no confirmation," Toner told reporters at the Defense Department's daily...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE WALTON, Afghanistan – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed his concern about pulling troops out of Afghanistan too soon as he embarked Sunday on two days of farewell visits to remote U.S. bases in this war-weary country.
He began by flying to a base near Kandahar...
(CNN) -- Effective Saturday night, Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi took over Ali Abdullah Saleh's responsibilities as president, Yemeni government spokesman Abdu Ganadi told CNN.
The power transfer comes as a source close to the Saudi government said that the long-time Yemeni...
(CNN) -- The man described by counterterrorism officials as al Qaeda's "military brain," Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a drone strike Friday night in Pakistan, a spokesman for his group, the jihadist Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami, said.
Pakistani and U.S. officials, however, said they have not...
ISLAMABAD Senior al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.
The death of the Pakistani militant...
(CNN) -- Hours after surviving the shelling of a mosque at his presidential palace that killed a Muslim preacher and several guards, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday insisted he is in good health and blamed "gangsters" for the attack.
The president sustained a slight injury to the...
(CNN) -- A former associate of Osama bin Laden, described by authorities as a "Pakistan-based attack planner," has been arrested in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the NATO-led coalition said Thursday.
The International Security Assistance Force declined to identify the man, saying it was not...
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been swept up in protests against longtime rulers since the January revolt that ousted Tunisian strongman Zine El Abedine Ben Ali. In many cases, these demonstrations and movements have been met with brute force and escalated into seemingly...
nf-sd-transponders-310511
transponder file for the nFusion Nova, nFusion Solaris and nFusion Phoenix
up to date on all Dish Network satellites as of May 31 2011
61.5, 82, 91, 110, 118, 119, 129
notes:
all transponders on all the above listed satellites fixed.
all...
(CNN) -- Bahrain on Tuesday warned against anti-government activity one day ahead of its plans to lift emergency laws that had allowed for a crackdown on opposition leaders, journalists and other activists.
The country's Ministry of Justice warned against "any type of activities that could...
(CNN) -- Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don't accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country's supply.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on "CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS," the grandson of the founding king of...
(CNN) -- FIFA's ethics committee Sunday suspended two men, one of whom had been the sole challenger to the association's president until earlier in the day.
The committee cleared FIFA President Sepp Blatter who, like the other two, had been called into question at Sunday's ethics hearing, which...
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