Obama balances threats against Americans' rights
Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, ...
Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror ...
Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to ...
Obama: Congress briefed on every drone strike
President Barack Obama says his administration informs Congress about every drone strike America orders. In a national security speech Thursday, Obama ...
Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen ...
Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how ...
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 ...
Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether ...
UK terror plot leader jailed for minimum 18 years
The ringleader of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to detonate knapsack bombs in England was sentenced Friday to at least 18 years in jail. Judge Richard ...
4 UK men jailed for toy-car terror plot
The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives. But investigators said Thursday Britain's domestic ...
Is it 'terrorism'? Anatomy of a very murky word
The word is almost a cold comfort in post-9/11 America — a way to describe the inconceivable, to somehow explain the twisted urge to commit mass ...
Senate panel votes to approve Obama's CIA nominee
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to approve President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA after winning a behind-the-scenes battle with ...
Yemeni al-Qaida posts new issue of online magazine
Yemen's al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula — considered to be the terror network's most dangerous branch — is urging for holy war in a new edition of ...
Intel committee to vote next week on CIA nominee
The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote early next week on John Brennan's nomination to be director of the CIA, the panel's leaders ...
3 British men convicted in terrorist bomb plot
They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck. On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ...
Al-Qaida tipsheet on avoiding drones found in Mali
One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their carpets out in the sand.
Correction: Brennan-CIA story
In a story Feb. 13 about CIA nominee John Brennan, based on information provided by the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Associated Press reported ...
Gates backs lawmakers' oversight of drone program
Robert Gates, a former defense secretary and spymaster, is backing lawmakers' proposal to form a special court to review President Barack Obama's ...
Lawmakers urge oversight of drone program
President Barack Obama's use of unmanned drones to kill Americans who are suspected of being al-Qaida allies deserves closer inspection, lawmakers ...
Lawmakers consider regulating drone strikes
CIA Director-designate John Brennan's vigorous defense of drone strikes to kill terror suspects — even American citizens — overseas is causing key ...
Brennan defends drone strikes, even on Americans
CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones Thursday under close questioning at a protest-disrupted ...
Lawmakers to get classified drone info
President Barack Obama has directed the Justice Department to give Congress' intelligence committees access to classified legal advice providing the ...
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