WASHINGTON — In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intended to use...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof. Othe...
Radio Free Europe | Ron Synovitz | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
Advisers to U.S. President Barack Obama's administration say their worst security nightmare is the possibility that Pakistan -- a nuclear-armed count...
Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab world. It faces corruption, malnutrition and water shortages. Its population of 23 million owns over 23 million firearms. It's a witch's brew of potential disaster.
Foreign Affairs | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
George W. Bush led the United States into war in Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein might give his country's nonexistent weapons of mass destruct...
Wired | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
Al Qaeda really, really, really doesn't want the U.S. and Iran to get friendly. In a video posted today on militant websites, the terror group's deput...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
A US troop raid on a suspected al-Queda link in Afghanistan went tragically awry Wednesday, resulting in the death of five civilians, including a seve...
AFP | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
A propaganda video by Islamic extremists in Somalia features appeals to foreign recruits from an "American" fighter along with English rapping and son...
Time | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
Sheikh Hamid al-Hayess is not optimistic. A burly man with a thick black moustache and closely knitted brows, he is one of the founding members of the...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
President Obama's plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan has so far been widely well received. According to a Reuters round-up: spokesmen from Afghanistan...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Widening war in "the most dangerous place in the world," President Barack Obama launched a fresh effort Friday to defeat al-Qaida t...
AP | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia says a senior al-Qaida leader has returned to the country voluntarily and turned himself in. The Interior M...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago
PEORIA, Ill. — A man locked up for seven years after being accused of plotting terrorist attacks in the U.S. as an al-Qaida sleeper agent pleade...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 04.21.2009 | Chicago
PEORIA, Ill. — Ali al-Marri followed his older brother to central Illinois in the mid-1980s to pursue a business education unavailable in his na...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Osama bin Laden urged Somalis on Thursday to overthrow their new president, issuing a statement that clearly outlines al-Qaida'...
Reuters | David Morgan | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
How long might it really take to find al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden? U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggests the FBI's 17-year hunt for convict...
Al Jazeera | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
At least 12 people in Pakistan, including suspected al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in a missile attack thought to have been carried out by an unm...
Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.
Norman Solomon | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
Those who are fond of talking and writing about Obama's admirable progressive values will, sooner or later, need to come to terms with the particulars of his actual policies.
The Telegraph | David Blair | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 199...
New York Times | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Visiting the Central Intelligence Agency to swear in Leon E. Panetta as the agency's 19th director, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the Bush a...
AP | VANESSA GERA and RYAN LUCAS | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — Poland promised Monday to issue international arrest warrants for Taliban militants after the apparent beheading of a Polish en...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
You'd think that the at-long-last-former Vice President of the US might take his eight years of power and his 13 points of public approval and slink off to one of those undisclosed locations he liked so much.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.01.2009 | World