Kenyan military forces engaged in sporadic gun battles with Islamic extremists holding hostages inside an upscale Nairobi mall, as officials said the death toll from a grenade-and-gunfire siege a day earlier rose to 59, with at least 175 wounded.
In a culture of the oppression and abuse of women, Sushmita Banerjee stood out. An Indian married to an Afghan businessman, Banerjee wrote of the rule of the Taliban and her effort to flee the medieval Islamic rules placed on women.
Although Captagon was banned in most countries in the 1980s, it is a commonly used – and abused – drug in the Middle East. Hezbollah substitutes a cheaper amphetamine instead of Captagon’s normal active ingredient fenethylline in the counterfeit vers
Right about now, the Israel Prisons Service is starting the process of releasing 26 murderers as a gesture to the 'Palestinian Authority' for joining 'peace talks.' Unlike past releases, this time the IPS is doing all they can (which isn't much)
That worldwide terrorism alert? Those sweeping U.S. embassy closures? All because American intelligence intercepted a — get this — "conference call" led by al-Qaida al-Zawahiri that included al-Qaida affiliate leaders around the world.
Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.
The Obama administration will start formal peace talks with the Taliban in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the first direct political contact between them since early last year and the initial step in what the administration hopes will lead to a neg
An Argentine special prosecutor's accusation that Iran has established terrorist networks throughout Latin America has renewed debate over how big a threat that poses to the region and the United States.
Foreign Policy is portraying former Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich as a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that allegations Syria used chemical weapons are part of a manufactured pretext for war.
Osama bin Laden’s name should not be banned from the terrorism trial of an Egyptian Islamic preacher despite claims by defense lawyers that it would be prejudicial toward their client, the government has told a federal judge.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and responding sporadically in writing to questions, authorities said. Investigators are asking about other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources said
My heart goes out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, one of whom was an eight year old little boy named Martin Richard who had so much life in front of him.
The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS.
Turkish police have uncovered and foiled an alleged plot by Al-Qaeda to bomb the US embassy in Ankara, as well as a synagogue and other targets in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Friday.
On what otherwise would have been a relatively peaceful day,
a suicide bomber using a tanker bomb was able to cause a significant amount of casualties at a police base in northern Iraq.
“There was a fair amount of debate because some of the intel guys didn’t want to stop the interrogation,” said a former administration official. “Others were getting antsy because they thought the longer you hold the guy and don’t Mirandize him,
A possible terror strike in the national capital has been averted. Delhi police today detained two suspected terrorists from the Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi.
The U.S. has provided material support to terrorists that call themselves al-Qaeda or otherwise link themselves to this term, whatever organization of umbrella beliefs it stands for. How can the U.S. be at war with al-Qaeda AND be providing
A former spokesman for al-Qaeda and son-in-law of its founder, Osama bin Laden, was captured overseas and secretly brought to New York this month to face a criminal trial for allegedly conspiring to kill Americans, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Former CIA head of the Bin Laden unit Michael Scheuer tells Fox Business' Tom Sullivan the State Department is sticking its nose where it doesn't belong rather than solving current foreign affairs.
A bomb targeting Shiite Muslims in a busy market in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwest killed 79 people including women and children and wounded 180 others, officials said.
The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an Algerian jihadist named Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Who is behind the terrorist group which attacked the BP -Statoil-Sonatrach In Amenas Gas Field Complex located on the Libyan border in South Eastern Algeria?