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October 16, 2018

US general warns of complacency in fight against extremists

As the U.S. and other countries shift their focus to growing security threats from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, the ...

October 16, 2018

Macron seeks new start in French govt reshuffle in TV speech

President Emmanuel Macron made a rare televised address Tuesday to reassure the French public that all was under control ...

October 16, 2018

US targets network backing Iran's use of child soldiers

The Treasury Department on Tuesday targeted a network of banks and businesses that provides financial support to a ...

October 16, 2018

Militants seize 14 Iranian security forces near Pakistan

Militants in Iran abducted 14 members of a border security force near the Pakistan border on Tuesday in the latest blow to ...

October 15, 2018

Germany deports convicted 9/11 accomplice home to Morocco

A Moroccan man convicted of helping Mohamed Atta and the other Hamburg-based Sept. 11 suicide pilots as they plotted attacks ...

Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Jessie Liu

October 15, 2018

Sessions: MS-13 gang, drug cartels among top threats to US

Attorney General Jeff Sessions created a new task force aimed at zeroing in on the three of the world's most notorious drug ...

October 14, 2018

Somalia marks 1 year since devastating Mogadishu bombing

Somalia on Sunday marked the first anniversary of one of the world's deadliest attacks since 9/11, a truck bombing in the ...

October 13, 2018

At least 16 dead in pair of bombings in Somalia's Baidoa

A suicide bomber detonated in a restaurant in the Somali town of Baidoa and another blast struck a hotel nearby, leaving at ...

October 13, 2018

UN report: Banned Somali charcoal exports pass through Iran

Banned charcoal exports from Somalia are thriving, generating millions of dollars a year for al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab ...

October 13, 2018

The Latest: Trump welcomes freed pastor to Oval Office

The Latest on Andrew Brunson, the American pastor freed after nearly two years of detention in Turkey (all times local): 2:55 ...

October 12, 2018

Court says trial in USS Cole attack can resume at Guantamamo

An appeals court has rejected arguments that led to an indefinite stay of proceedings at the Guantanamo Bay naval base ...

October 11, 2018

Q&A: Greengrass on confronting the alt-right in '22 July'

With handheld cameras in tow, Paul Greengrass has headed straight into real-life horrors to make visceral, immersive fiction ...

October 10, 2018

EU crime fighting unit teams up with counterterror forces

The European Union's police agency signed a cooperation agreement Wednesday with a European network of special counterterror ...

October 09, 2018

Official: Suicide bomber kills candidate in upcoming polls

A suicide bomber on Tuesday struck the home of a candidate in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections later this month, killing ...

October 09, 2018

Jeff Sessions joins European talks on terrorism, migration

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has joined European security chiefs holding talks in France on fighting terrorism and ...

October 09, 2018

Limo company operator has history as FBI informant

The owner of a limousine company in the crash that killed 20 people was someone already familiar to law enforcement, but not ...

October 08, 2018

US urges UN court to toss out Iranian case on frozen assets

The U.S. on Monday urged the United Nations' highest court to toss out a case filed by Iran that seeks to recover around $2 ...

October 07, 2018

Palestinian kills 2 Israelis in West Bank industrial zone

A Palestinian attacker on Sunday opened fire inside a West Bank industrial zone where Israelis and Palestinians work ...

October 05, 2018

White House outlines counterterrorism strategy, slams Iran

President Donald Trump's national security adviser on Thursday unveiled the administration's long-awaited counterterrorism ...