The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program has offered a $10 million bounty for Osama Mehmood, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), and a $5 million reward for his deputy, Atif Yahya Ghouri.

FBI Director Kash Patel stated on Tuesday that drug trafficking organizations should be treated like foreign terrorist groups were after the September 11, 2001, attacks, pledging a years-long campaign against them.

A Ugandan military helicopter carrying eight people crashed on Tuesday at Aden Adde International Airport in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to aviation officials.

An al-Qaeda-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for a major attack on the town of Boulikessi in Mali, stating that it has taken control of a military base there.

At least seven people, including security personnel and civilians, were killed and six others injured in a suicide bombing at a cafe in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said, News.Az reports citing foreign media.

Once again, Maia Sandu and her administration find themselves at the center of an international scandal.

More than 70 people are believed to have died in an attack by an al-Qaeda-linked group in Mali’s capital, Bamako, earlier this week, according to diplomatic and security sources.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commemorated the September 11 terror attacks on Wednesday, which claimed around 3,000 lives when al-Qaeda hijackers targeted the US financial and political capitals.