The terror trial of radical British preacher Abu Hamza will start March 31 next year, the US judge presiding over his case since he was extradited last year said Thursday.

An alleged Al-Qaeda spokesman and son-in-law of Osama bin Laden has been detained and is to appear in court in New York on Friday on terror charges, the US Department of Justice said.

Indonesian police arrested five policemen on Thursday over the alleged torture of militants after a video posted on YouTube showed a suspect being shot and others abused.

The United States and China began naval drills in the Arabian Sea with Pakistan and other countries on Thursday, the Pakistani navy said, in a show of strength against terrorism and piracy.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was seized by CIA agents and taken to the United States after Turkey deported him to Jordan this month, a Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday.

A Republican senator seeking to block President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA over concerns about drone strikes on US soil completed a nearly 13-hour speaking filibuster early Thursday.

A Republican senator seeking to block President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA over concerns about drone strikes on US soil completed a nearly 13-hour speaking filibuster early Thursday.

A Republican senator seeking to block President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the CIA is vowing to speak as long as it takes to do so, citing concern about drone strikes on US soil.

A Republican senator sought to block President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the CIA, saying he would speak as long as it took to do so, citing concern about drone strikes on US soil.

Republican Rand Paul stiff-armed President Barack Obama's CIA nomination Wednesday, drawing support from fellow senators concerned about the administration's refusal to rule out drone strikes on US soil.

Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can't confirm the extent of the surveillance.

Nigerian troops have recovered a cache of arms and explosives in a house near a military base in the restive northern city of Kaduna and arrested nine people, an army commander said Wednesday.

Clashes between French troops and Islamist fighters in Mali killed a French soldier and around 10 rebels, defence officials said Wednesday, as President Francois Hollande claimed the operation had wiped out "terrorist kingpins".

A Republican irate over the Obama administration's refusal to rule out drone strikes on US soil took to the Senate floor Wednesday in a classic filibuster to block the president's CIA nominee.

A court in Bahrain on Wednesday condemned a protester accused of involvement in a bomb attack on police in a Shiite village to 15 years in prison, the official BNA news agency reported.

Burundian journalist Hassan Ruvakuki, who had been sentenced to life in jail on terrorism charges, was freed on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

Karachi went on an indefinite strike Wednesday, with businesses, shops, schools and transporters ordered to shut down until police arrest those responsible for the city's worst bomb attack in years.

Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has sided with the rebel Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group which Washington lists as a "terrorist organisation', in the Syrian conflict.

Pakistan axed the chief of police in southern Sindh province on Wednesday over a bomb attack that killed 50 people in a Shiite Muslim area of Karachi, following stinging criticism by the country's top judge.

A Pakistani-born US citizen in Portland, Oregon was charged Tuesday with helping one of three suicide bombers in a 2009 attack in Pakistan that killed 30 people and injured 300 more, the Justice Department said.