Al-Qaeda

Dozens killed in wave of bombings in Iraq

2013-05-20 04:53:00

A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said The attacks, some of which hit market places...

Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere

2013-05-16 18:17:00

WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...

McManus: The second-term scandal plague

2013-05-18 06:52:00

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...

Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say

2013-05-16 16:46:00

WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....

Cause for hope -- and fear -- in Pakistan

2013-05-19 00:00:00

There is reason for hope in Nawaz Sharif's victory in the recent Pakistani elections. Sharif, who has twice served as Pakistan's prime minister, has said he wants to build a more robust democracy, revive the country's shattered economy and end the...

The Benghazi talking points

2013-05-16 00:00:00

The furor over the Benghazi talking points continues. Republicans still see them as the main event in a campaign to embarrass President Obama. The president, for his part, calls them a "sideshow." Finally, on Wednesday, the White House released more...

Holder defends subpoena of journalists' phone records

2013-05-14 21:03:00

WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday strongly defended the criminal investigation into the leak of classified details about a successful U.S. undercover operation, calling it "within the top two or three most serious leaks" of...

Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists

2013-05-13 21:33:00

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...

Turkey bombings prompt outcry over support for Syria rebels

2013-05-13 17:06:00

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Deadly weekend car bombings in a southern Turkish city have galvanized domestic opposition to the government's steadfast support for Syrian rebels amid fears that Turkey is being dragged into the bloody conflict across its border....

Sword of division is poised over Iraq

2013-05-10 16:46:00

BAGHDAD — Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's political leaders are openly debating the prospect of two dangerous paths for their country: de facto division or civil war. Perhaps both. Tension between the Shiite...

Bringing drones out of the shadows

2013-05-13 00:00:00

The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...

Mistaken Benghazi claim came from CIA, emails show

2013-05-15 19:09:00

WASHINGTON — Career CIA officers were responsible for administration claims that the armed attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead last fall grew out of a protest of an anti-Islamic video, an incorrect assertion that became a...

Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two suspects accused of plotting with al-Qaida in Iran to derail a train in Canada, arrives at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto, on Tuesday.

2013-04-23 00:00:00

An 18-year-old Aurora man with ties to a foiled attempt last year to bomb a downtown Chicago bar was arrested as he was about to travel to the Middle East to join the al-Qaida terrorist network, federal officials said.

2013-04-20 00:00:00

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al-Qaida official due in court

2013-03-08 06:29:00