CIA chief makes unannounced Israel visit
An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel. The official says CIA chief John ...

Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoena
Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he ...

Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news ...

As US drone strikes rise in Yemen, so does anger
The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their ...
Website offline where stolen credit reports posted
The website where hackers had published what it said were credit reports for Michelle Obama, the attorney general, CIA director, FBI director and ...
Appeals court reverses CIA drone secrecy ruling
A federal appeals court Friday reversed a lower court ruling that allowed the CIA to refuse to confirm whether it had information on the use of ...

UN says US drones violate Pakistan's sovereignty
The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the ...

Erratic North Korea poses serious threat
An erratic North Korea, with its nuclear weapons and increasingly belligerent tone, poses a serious threat to the United States and East Asia nations, ...

Brennan's CIA bid chance to strike back at critics
A Senate hearing on John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA could lay bare some parts of the secret war against al-Qaida: lethal drone strikes from ...

Congress considers putting limits on drone strikes
Uncomfortable with the Obama administration's use of deadly drones, a growing number in Congress is looking to limit America's authority to kill ...

Bulgaria links Hezbollah to attack on Israelis
Hezbollah was behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated ...
US urges Europe to take action against Hezbollah
The Obama administration called Tuesday for Europe to take "proactive action" to disrupt the Hezbollah organization following an investigation that ...

Kerry tackles questions on Iran, Syria, Hagel
President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state discussed Iran, Syria and other issues Thursday, while testifying at his confirmation hearing ...

THE RESET: John Kerry breezes through Hill hearing
The Senate confirmation process is a minefield for many presidential nominees. But Sen. John Kerry seemed to navigate those waters safely at his ...

THE RESET: Foreign policy moves into spotlight
Re-elected American presidents often reset their focus to foreign policy when dealings at home with Congress become too contentious. President Barack ...

US sees Iran behind hostage photos of ex-FBI agent
Two years after a hostage video and photographs of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson raised the possibility that the missing American was being held ...

Obama digs in for a fight on Hagel, Brennan picks
President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead ...

Rallies across Yemen support military shake-up
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis rallied across the country Friday to support a military shake-up this week that limited the powers held by loyalists ...