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Coalition forces can attain "success" in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials should wait until December 2010 before they can measure the progress of the troop surge, a top U.S. commander told a Senate committee Wednesday.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is slamming the Obama administration for planning to hold the trials of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other accused terrorists in federal court in New York City, saying they will give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Grocer, activist labeled as 'terrorist group leader' in movie 'Bruno' files lawsuit for more than $110 milllion
Washington - A Kuwaiti national detained at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba was transferred Wednesday back to his homeland, where he will be under the control of the Kuwaiti government, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. Fouad Mahmoud al-Rabiah, 50, wa...
The U.S. government released from Guantanamo Wednesday a Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom a judge freed from eight years detention because American interrogators had wrung a false confession out of him years ago.
A Kuwaiti royal jet evacuated from Guantánamo Wednesday a Kuwaiti Airways engineer who was freed from eight years detention because a U.S. judge ruled interrogators wrung a false confession out of him at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Palestinian grocer says Sacha Baron Cohen falsely depicted him as a terrorist in film, is suing raft of US entertainment companies for damages
SAN ANGELO, Texas —There are tantalizing hints that after eight years of groping in the dark the U.S. government is beginning to close in on Osama bin Laden ’s whereabouts.On Sunday, White House National Security Adviser James Jones said his best estimate was that the world’s most wanted terrorist “is somewhere in North Waziristan , sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the ...
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The rise of China is the top news story of the decade, a study performed by a U.S. language analysis group indicated.
Some retirees kill time between Canasta games by moping around the house feeling sorry for themselves, but not former Vice President Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney. He swung by the Fox News clubhouse yesterday with some words of wisdom for our current President, calling his decision to let alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed go on trial in New York a "huge mistake." Obama should take his ...
Al Qaeda-linked militants in the Philippines have beheaded one of three Filipino factory workers they seized in the troubled south of the country last month, an official said Wednesday.
Sen. John Kerry declared Pakistan America's "core" challenge despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- As the United States braces for a major escalation in the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is launching a new drive to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, declaring that he's the key to defeating al-Qaida.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday toured the nerve centre of NATO command in Afghanistan, telling officers an imminent troop surge would turn around the eight-year war against the Taliban.
By HARLAN ULLMAN UPI Outside View Commentator WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Sixty-eight years and two days ago, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor awakened what Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto called a "sleeping giant." Nearly 60 years later, the attacks that turned civilian airliners into weapons made Sept. 11, 2001, a second day of infamy. Americans were shocked and outraged.
By United Press International WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The capture or death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is important in the fight against the militant organization, a U.S. military commander said.
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