Abu Nidal has been on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations for more than twenty years but is largely considered to be inactive, according to the 2008 State Department Country Reports on Terrorism.

Abu Nidal was no stranger to Iraq. He had operated from Baghdad, Damascus and the Libyan capital of Tripoli when the regimes wanted to use him as a "gun for hire". It was Iraq which paid him to ...

A videotape exists of Nidal Hasan being forcibly shaved, authorities say. U.S. Major Nidal Hasan, left, at the San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas on April 9, 2010. Hasan, right, is ...

Nidal Hasan was one of 308 people whose names appear on a list of "participants" in a series of public roundtable meetings organized by the "Presidential Transition Task Force," a project of the ...

Abu Nidal, whose name was synonymous with international terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, was reported yesterday to have died in his Baghdad apartment from multiple gunshot wounds, although the ...

BAGHDAD — Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal ended his life with a gunshot wound when security agents went to his apartment to arrest him, Iraq’s intelligence chief said Wednesday. Tahir Jalil ...

Following the positive decision on his asylum application, Nidal’s psychological state improved, and he now looks ahead with optimism. He and his family are now recognized refugees who can make plans ...

In an interview, Atef Abu Bakr says Abu Nidal told a meeting of his Fatah-Revolutionary Council that he had organised the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. He told London-based ...