With his hands raised, Waziri pleaded, “Please don’t shoot.” Seconds later, gunfire took his life. The shooter later called ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the man believed to be the head of Hamas’ armed wing, Mohammed Sinwar, has ...

Pakistan decided to launch aerial attacks on several Indian air bases. The plan was ambitious but various difficulties limited the number of available aircraft. Sarghoda airbase was able to launch ...

The leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group has been extradited to the United States on charges that he instructed an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy ...

In 2006, a U.S. air strike killed Zarqawi in a safe house in an Iraqi palm-tree forest, in what President George W. Bush called “a severe blow to Al Qaeda.” He went on, “It’s a victory in ...

US troops using 155mm howitzers pounded a number of pre-planned targets in Falluja on Saturday. Along with air strikes - one of the heaviest in recent days - this is all part of what appears to be a ...

The leader of the Islamic State group, killed in a U.S. raid overnight in ... run by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Following al-Zarqawi’s death in a U.S. strike in 2006, al-Qurayshi ...

"I stood over his body right after we killed him." McChrystal expressed no admiration for al-Zarqawi's methods — "in many ways, he was a psychopath," he said — but he acknowledged al-Zarqawi's ...

and finish” top-tier targets inside al Qaeda — such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born terrorist who led Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) until he was killed in a 2006 U.S. air strike.

Zarqawi led a ruthless three-year campaign of coordinated attacks against Iraqi and U.S. targets. He called his group Al Qaeda in Iraq. A targeted U.S. airstrike killed Zarqawi in 2006.

Less than two months later, Zarqawi was dead, killed in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad — what was left of his tattoos would be among the distinguishing marks U.S. forces would initially use ...

His decapitated body was later found near a highway in Baghdad. Al-Zarqawi’s methods were so extreme and he killed so many people under his radical brand of Islam that even al-Qaeda bosses ...