KARACHI, Pakistan — Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran. H...
Posted 12.11.2009 | World
***UPDATE 12.11 4:30 PM ET*** ABC News is reporting, citing a senior U.S. official, that the senior al-Qaida figure reportedly killed in a drone atta...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people an...
AP | Posted 12.06.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject vi...
GlobalPost | Solana Pyne | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
RABAT, Morocco -- They called it a "solidarity caravan" -- a group of Spanish volunteers delivering truckloads of donated computers, wheelchairs and o...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the United States' predicament in Afghanistan, it's that the presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al Qaeda.
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR and LEE KEATH | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate ...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...
Conn Hallinan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
McChrystal argues that the current situation is "critical," and that an escalation "will be decisive." But as former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst A.J. Rossmiller says, the war is a stalemate.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
Posted 11.09.2009 | World
ABC News is reporting that U.S. agencies were aware months ago that Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sought to contact people associa...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, ...
Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Robert Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
news.aol.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture leaders of the a...
TIME | Andrew Lee Butters Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
For Omar Bin Laden, the fourth eldest of Osama bin Laden's 20 known children, the awful realization that his own father was a terrorist mastermind plo...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
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AP | BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
LAHORE, Pakistan -- "AP"; Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore...
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT and ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 12.14.2009 | World