A blonde American who dubbed herself "JihadJane" pleaded not guilty Thursday to recruiting Islamist militants in the latest home-grown terrorism case. Pennsylvania resident Colleen LaRose, 46, smiled and appeared relaxed as she denied charges of conspiracy to support terrorists, recruiting militants, and agreeing to murder a Swedish cartoonist who had offended some Muslims. The federal court judge in Philadelphia ordered ...

A meeting of "Friends of Yemen," a forum of aid donors to the poorest country in the Arabian peninsula, is to meet in Abu Dhabi on March 29-30, the Emirati state news agency WAM said on Thursday. It said a senior Emirati foreign ministry official, Khaled Ghanem al-Ghaith, discussed the preparations for the meeting with a diplomat from the US ...

The face of terrorism is changing in the United States as the country comes to terms with the rising threat of "homegrown" terrorists who look and sound nothing like Hollywood typecasts. A tall, fair-skinned American named David Coleman Headley is set to plead guilty in a Chicago court Thursday to using his Western appearance as a cover while scoping out ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen will free northern Shi'ite rebel prisoners within days under a truce to end a war that drew in Saudi Arabia last year, an official said on Thursday, while clashes with armed separatists erupted in the south. Separately, a U.S.-born radical preacher, believed to be in hiding in southern Yemen where he has been targeted ...