Al Qaeda's American spokesman, Adam Gadahn, called for more attacks on the US and praised the murder of 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009.
The Pakistani military said the Taliban have been cleared from the Damadola region in Bajaur, a stronghold of Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed. The Frontier Corps said the operation was successful due to the help of local tribal militias.
Below is the interview with Abu Dujanah al Khurasani, a longtime internet jihadi who was recruited by Jordanian intelligence to provide targeting information for the US' covert air campaign against al Qaeda's leaders and operations in Pakistan's tribal areas. Khurasani (who is also known as Humam Khalil Muhammed Abu Mulal al Balawi) turned on his handlers and carried out the suicide attack against the CIA at Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost province. Seven CIA agents and a Jordanian intelligence official were killed in the attack, which took place on Dec. 30, 2009. The interview is in four parts due to YouTube restrictions on length. The transcript is available here, and a report on the interview is available here.
An Afghan reporter embeds with a Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) group operating in the northern province of Baghlan. Foreign fighters routinely operate with the HIG unit. The group conducts attacks against NATO convoys traveling from Tajikistan to Kabul. The reporter goes on a poorly planned ambush with the HIG fighters. Video from PBS Frontline.
Hamid Gul, the former Pakistani Army general who led the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989 and helped found the Taliban in Afghanistan, talks to Al Jazeera about US efforts in Afghanistan. Gul is a known supporter of al Qaeda and the Taliban. You can read the interview here.
US Soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, Bravo Company, First Platoon, conduct a disruption patrol and take contact from enemy insurgents in support of Operation Moshtarak, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Video by Tech Sergeant Rodolfo Castro.
A Taliban suicide assault team launched an attack on government buildings and a UN office in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand, Afghanistan. Afghan troops backed by Coalition forces repelled the attack and killed the suicide assault team.
Local tribal militias, called arbaki, have been raised in Kunduz province as Afghan and German security forces have failed to fill the security vacuum. Some locals complain the arbaki have committed crimes, including a rape, and are not accountable to the law.
It's a controversial idea that some say is the only way to bring peace to Afghanistan ... How to convince members of the Taliban to put down their guns, and bring them into the political fold.
Al Jazeera has learned that secret talks were held last week on the islands of the Maldives between a government official, Afghan MPs and an armed opposition group fighting alongside the Taliban.
An ambitious plan is underway to get fighters lay down their arms in return for money and jobs.
Afghan intelligence detained a Haqqani Network facilitator who aided in the Jan. 18 suicide assault in Kabul. The Haqqani facilitator said the plot was hatched in Pakistan.
The United Kingdom is closely monitoring the University College London's Islamic Society after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Eve bomber, served as president of the Muslim group. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims Abdulmutallab was radicalized while in London but the Islamic Society denied this.
Al Jazaeera looks at the aftermath of recent airstrikes in Yemen against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the problems with the Yemeni government.
The Jordanian government is stung by the news that a second citizen was killed along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Mansur al Shami, a Jordanian al Qaeda leader, was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan. His family celebrated his death.
Community police are raised in the formerly Taliban-controlled district of Swat in Pakistan. Security remains tight in Mingora, the main town, as the Army waits for the new police force to be mobilized.
Abdulmajid al Zindani, a radical Islamist cleric with close ties to both al Qaeda and the Yemeni government, claimed the US is going to occupy Yemen and confiscate its oil. Zindani has been designated a terrorist financier by the UN's 1267 Committee and labeled a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury for serving as a spiritual adviser to bin Laden and as an al Qaeda financier and recruiter.
Bill Roggio joined Inside Story host Sohail Rahman, al Qaeda expert Michael Griffin, and Hakim al Masmari, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the English-language Yemen Post, to discuss the al Qaeda threat in Yemen.
The Afghan parliament rejected 17 of President Hamid Karzai's 21 cabinet appointments. The most prominent cabinet member to be rejected was Ismail Khan, the warlord and former governor of Herat.
The attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas day has called into question the US plan to close Guantanamo Bay, and has created questions about airline security.