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Airline passengers across India went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that al-Qaida-linked militants planned to hijack a plane.

The suicide attacker killed eight people at a CIA compound in Afghanistan last week. He had been recruited to help U.S. spy agencies penetrate Al Qaeda, a former U.S. intelligence official says.

The president says an affiliate of the group trained and equipped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He promises to hold U.S. security officials accountable for breakdowns in terrorism screening.

Yemeni security forces stormed an al-Qaida hide-out Wednesday in a principle militant stronghold in the country's west, setting off clashes, officials said, as a security chief vowed to fight the group's powerful local branch until it was eliminated.

An attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. passenger jet has put a spotlight on what American spy agencies see as an emerging battlefield in Yemen against a rapidly growing hub for al Qaeda.

There is no initial evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet was involved in a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

Federal prosecutors unsealed narcotics and terrorism charges Friday against three West Africans identified as associates of Al Qaeda and a related group.

An al-Qaeda sleeper agent is jailed in the US for conspiring to provide material support for terrorism.

France arrests a researcher at Europe's top particle physics lab who is suspected of links to al-Qaeda, officials say.

An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a senior Al Qaeda operative, intelligence officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.