Abu Nidal, once the world's most wanted terrorist, killed himself with a gunshot to the head last week as Iraqi officials waited in his home to take him to court, the head of Iraqi intelligence ...

Abu Nidal, the Palestinian radical whose name was synonymous with terrorism during the 1980s, has been found dead, according to a Palestinian newspaper.

Abu Nidal has been one of the most sought-after men in the world, and one of its most elusive. The State Department once branded him its most-wanted terrorist, and he was at the top of the CIA's ...

Abu Nidal commandos attacked synagogues in Europe, hijacked or bombed international airliners, shot up restaurants and hotels, and assassinated diplomats the world over.

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 made efforts to join forces with an array of dissidents from the PLO that, under Syrian tutelage, were striving to prise the movement from Mr Arafat's grip.

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".

Abu Nidal was based in Libya in the late 1980s when Abu Bakr was one of his closest aides. Abu Bakr told the al-Hayat newspaper that Abu Nidal had violated the hospitality of Libya, ...

One of the world’s most wanted terrorists, the Palestinian guerrilla chief Sabri al-Banna, better known as Abu Nidal, is being held by the Egyptian authorities in Cairo, according to an Arab ...

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 ...