Osama

On the night of January 16, 12-year-old Osama from Palestine couldn't sleep. Early the next day he would travel from Athens to Belgium to meet his big brother. He was excited to see him again after four years, but also nervous - about the trip, the new beginning there and of course the war back in his homeland.

President Joe Biden said on July 8 the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan will end on Aug. 31, delivering an impassioned argument for exiting the nearly 20-year war without sacrificing more American lives even as he bluntly acknowledged there will be no "mission accomplished" moment to celebrate.

A year after they were rescued by aid workers off Greece's Aegean islands as they fled war in Syria, Saddam, Yusef, Osama and Idris found themselves in a reverse situation: Helping Greeks who suffered losses in last month's deadly wildfires in Attica's Mati and Kineta get back on their feet.

Kosovo and Metohija are an important place on the map of the international Islamist extremism. The southern Serbian province is seen as a recruiting ground for terrorists.

In recently declassified letters, a son of Osama bin Laden vowed to follow the "path of jihad" and avenge his father's death at the hands of the US military.

Air strikes have killed several Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front members including its spokesman and regime forces have retaken a strategic town from the Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) group in the latest setbacks for jihadists in Syria.
 

Air strikes have killed several Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front members including its spokesman and regime forces have retaken a strategic town from the Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) group in the latest setbacks for jihadists in Syria.
 

The nature of terrorist attacks changed when al-Qaeda used civilian planes with passengers on board as weapons to attack civilian targets in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. 9/11 marked the beginning of global guerilla warfare.

The nature of terrorist attacks changed when al-Qaeda used civilian planes with passengers on board as weapons to attack civilian targets in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. 9/11 marked the beginning of global guerilla warfare.

Hungarian authorities were locked in a stand-off with migrants who left Budapest?s main train station on foot for Austria, while the U.K. said it would take thousands more Syrian refugees as the crisis gripping Europe mounted.