General Petraeus: Al Qaida May Be Shifting Focus Back To Afghanistan From Iraq
BAGHDAD — After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casua...
BAGHDAD — After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casua...
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Afghanistan has been drawing a fresh influx of jihadi fighters from Turkey, Central Asia, Chechnya and the Middle East, one...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — Israeli investigators have arrested six men suspected of trying to set up an al-Qaida-linked terror network, including one who wante...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN and PETER JAMES SPIELMANN | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — Pakistan's top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his na...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Hamza bin Laden, Osama's 16-year-old son, has posted a violent, terror poem on an extremist website to mark the anniversary of the July 7 London bombi...
Reuters | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Al Qaeda's growing north Africa network plans to attack U.S. interests seeking control of the region's energy riches, its Algerian-based leader said i...
Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Early this year, a religious radical calling himself Abu Hamza had a question for the deputy leader of al-Qaeda regarding the Egyptian secret police. ...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER and BETH FOUHY | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a shar...
ABC News | REHAB EL-BURI | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
Reiterating the message in Osama bin Laden's last address, al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman Zawahri released an audio message Wednesday, calling for t...
KansasCity.com | Lauren Frayer | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include - or at least acknowledge - women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad on Monday, killing six people and wounding dozens weeks after ...
CBS News | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
The new faces of terror are militants inside an emerging al Qaeda cell, which U.S. officials warn presents a clear and growing threat to America. Bas...
Huffington Post via CBS News | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Al Qaida is training children as young as 12 years old to be the next generation of militants. While these training camps for young militants have be...
AP | OMAR SINAN | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden released a new message on Sunday accusing Arab leaders of sacrificing the Palestinians and calling on Muslim mili...
Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in t...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S. military as the top al-Qaida commander in Somalia, kill...
AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden's chief deputy in an audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of trying to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida terror netwo...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by t...
Max Bergmann | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
This GAO report, released today, may be the most damning condemnation of the Bush administration's counter-terrorism efforts.
Associated Press | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Terrorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country's Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in ...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Leave it to conservative FOX News' Washington, D.C. managing editor Britt Hume to raise the specter of John McCain's age as an issue in the 2008 elect...
Robert Scheer | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Once again there was our president, presiding over disasters in part of his making and on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect with existing reality.
Washington Post | Cameron W. Barr and Michael D. Shear | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
*** UPDATES BELOW *** Sen. John McCain is taking this week to travel the Middle East (as well as stop of in London for a fundraiser). Today in Jorda...
Think Progress | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Before the Iraq war began, Dick Cheney was among the most prominent messengers of the false claim that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda...
AP | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 42, Iraqi official...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
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AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics