Pro-Afghan War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaida Ties: Analysis
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...
AP | NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
PARIS — A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of a...
AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
GENEVA — A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the ...
washingtonpost.com | Sudarsan Raghavan | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
The bomb was hidden inside the al-Qaeda assassin's body, and he arrived on his target's personal plane. ...
Robert Scheer | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
It's time to declare victory and begin to get out of Afghanistan rather than descend deeper into an intractable civil war that we neither comprehend nor in the end will care much about.
The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
As of Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at least 791 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasi...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...
The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guant�namo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and ta...
AP | LOLITA BALDOR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a s...
AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has bee...
Global Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
By C.M. Sennott NEW YORK -- The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the ...
AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
CAIRO — Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday seized upon President Barack Obama's failure to bring about a freeze in Israeli settlement constructi...
AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — More than 100 prison officials and guards have been detained after 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execu...
washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung and Pamela Constable | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
A new wave of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan has slowed the arrival of hundreds of U.S. civilian and military officials charged with implementing...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Five al-Qaida-linked prisoners awaiting execution and 11 other inmates broke out of a prison in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, p...
AP/ The Huffington Post | By STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
UPDATE From CNN: FBI agents raid home of man questioned in terror plot: AURORA, Colorado (CNN) -- FBI agents late Saturday arrested Najibullah Zazi, ...
AP | MUNIR AHMAD and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles are believed to have killed an al-Qaida operations chief and a top Uzbek militant in northwest Pakistan, officials sai...
Global Post | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
Tristan McConnell | GlobalPost NAIROBI, Kenya -- A strike by six U.S. helicopter gunships on an Al Qaeda target in Somalia on Monday marks a dramat...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The U.S. helicopters, guns blazing, swooped over a convoy carrying a top al-Qaida fugitive in rural southern Somalia. Elite...
Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World