Top Al-Qaeda leader killed in drone strike: report
AFP - Fri Dec 11, 3:12 am ETA top Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a drone missile strike in northwest Pakistan, NBC News reported late Thursday, citing unnamed US officials.
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A top Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a drone missile strike in northwest Pakistan, NBC News reported late Thursday, citing unnamed US officials.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders on Thursday as U.S. commanders said plans to reduce troop levels sharply by next summer were on track despite delayed elections and a major al Qaeda attack. President Barack Obama has pledged to end combat operations in Iraq by August 31, 2010, before a full pullout by the end of 2011. The U.S. force in Iraq is supposed to be reduced to 50 ...
Long-feared by US intelligence, Muslim radicalization is gaining momentum in the United States, hit by a spate of recent cases featuring youths recruited and trained overseas for jihad, analysts say.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pakistani law enforcement official says five young American Muslims who've been arrested in eastern Pakistan had met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training.
England’s libel laws, which favor complainants, are under attack from publishers, scientists and others.
Tense negotiations to free 57 people held captive by tribal gunmen wanted for murder in the volatile southern Philippines entered their second day Friday, amid signs of a breakthrough.
Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the coordinated Baghdad bombings that killed 127 people and...
Former Blackwater guards said that their involvement in the operations blurred the lines supposedly dividing the C.I.A., the military and the private security company.
Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace."
A humble President Barack Obama joined a list of revered Nobel peace laureates, but in a steely speech he warned he would not hesitate to wage war if it was "morally justified."
Delayed elections in Iraq and a major al Qaeda attack this week will not derail plans to sharply reduce U.S. troop levels by next summer, a top commander said on Thursday as Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders.
Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants,...
Coordinated Bombings Killed 127; Iraqi Security Forces Come Under Scrutiny
WASHINGTON -- The American people got a good glimpse of the chaos in Iran in 1979 when Americans were held hostage for more than a terrible year -- but perhaps you really had to be in the Middle East to see and feel what a profound effect the "Islamic Revolution" had in that era on the entire region.
Sending more troops to support corrupt Karzai government is a mistake
Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al Qaeda-linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement official said Thursday. The men used the social networking site Facebook and the Internet video site YouTube to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan, said S ...
President accepts prize days after announcing plan to deploy 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON - Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they...
5 Men Accused of Traveling to Militant-Plagued Country in Hope of Joining "Jihad" May Be Sent Home
Killing or capturing Osama bin Laden is the key to defeating the Al-Qaeda terror network, the NATO commander in Afghanistan told US legislators in testimony on Capitol Hill.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize by confronting “the hard truth” that armed conflict is sometimes both necessary and just.