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...
AFP | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
Hundreds of members of an anti-Al-Qaeda front in Iraq's central city of Baquba on Friday donned keffiyeh headdresses and took to the streets demanding...
AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Radical elements are now a threat to the survival of Pakistan, prompting Pakistani military leaders to recognize that more aggressive efforts are need...
Washington Post | Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his hea...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 01.29.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support and a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
Sometimes, during a speech, what is left unsaid is more telling than the words uttered. This was certainly true during Monday night's State of the Uni...
NY Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
The top two American intelligence officials traveled secretly to Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to allow the Central In...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In a shift with profound implications, the Bush administration is attempting to re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts in A...
Newsweek | Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau and Mark Hosenball | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
Osama Bin Laden appears to be reasserting his influence among the Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders upon whom he's depending for survival. Since Dec...
LA Times | Tony Perry | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
As he prepares to leave Iraq after a year as the top Marine, Maj. Gen. Walter E. Gaskin is upbeat about the future of Anbar province but candid about ...
AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
CAIRO, Egypt — Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri's "on-line interview" before a recent dea...
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
The insta-polls, which provide viewers with a somewhat skewed but important insight into how each...
You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an...
In Debate II, John McCain twice laid out the criteria for how the American...
We've come to lower our expectations for real debates in the...
They say that Senator McCain's strong suit is the town hall debate. If this was, in fact, Senator McCain's strength, he might...
Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric...
Madonna went on VP candidate "Sarah fucking Paling" at her Madison Square Garden show Monday...
Jim VandeHei and John Harris of The Politico have gone and decreed last night's debate "The worst...
Fresh from the celebration of their 16th wedding anniversary on Friday, the Obamas shared...
The view from a hovering...
NEW YORK — A stock market empowered by an emergency interest rate cut...
The newest issue of Men's Health has what is sure to be an illuminating...
CBS News | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics