The Daily Beast reported the tip that led to closing U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa came from an Al Qaeda conference call.

After a terrorist group claims responsibility for a bloody hostage crisis in Algeria, a look at how terrorism and civil unrest in North Africa impact's the U.S.'s energy supply.

There is a fast-moving hostage crisis this morning at a natural gas complex in Algeria. The complex is run by BP and Statoil. Islamist militants attacked the facility apparently in protest of France's intervention in Mali.

Despite official denials, France is accused of being too ready to pay ransoms for hostages — and so encouraging kidnappers to abduct its citizens.

U.S.-born, Anwar al-Awlaki, al-Qaida's "YouTube preacher", is being reported as killed this morning. Awlaki has been reported dead in the past,…

The al-Shamukh site has been around for a while now as a sort of message board forum for members of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. It…