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In his policy speech on Thursday, the president said the United States will focus more on smaller terror networks and homegrown extremists.

When U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on Thursday to clarify his administration's counterterrorism policies, especially his guidelines for initiating drone strikes against terrorists, he received widespread media coverage that helped to take attention away from the Benghazi, IRS, and AP scandals surrounding his administration, according to ... (more)

In the Pakistani press, the takeaway from the speech was the Obama administration's position on drone strikes, which have targeted militants in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Video: President Obama's speech on counterterrorism Thursday touched on drones, renewed efforts to close Guantanamo Bay, and was interrupted by a loud heckler.

In this May 13, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

President Obama instructed Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday to review Justice Department guidelines for leak investigations, meet with media organizations and report back to him by mid-July. Obama addressed the uproar over his administration's numerous leak investigations, saying he is "troubled" that the inquiries might "chill" ... (more)

President Obama outlined his vision for a revised American counterterrorism policy during Thursday's speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., renewing his call to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and announcing new guidelines to govern the use of targeted drone strikes on foreign soil.

While speaking at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, D.C., on Thursday, President Obama rejected the idea of a "global war on terror " and called for the transfer of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to the United States, the Weekly Standard reported.

Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror, explaining, "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue, but this war, like all wars, must end - that's what history advises; that's what our democracy demands." Flanked by several GOP ... (more)

In this July 16, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time... The judge in the Jodi Arias murder trial declared a mistrial in the penalty phase Thursday after the jury reported for a second time that it ... (more)

Lifting the ban is a step toward Obama's goal of closing the Navy-run prison in Cuba since nearly 100 of the 166 terrorist suspects held there are from Yemen and have had nowhere to go even if they had been cleared for transfer.

Guantanamo Bay's detention facility opened in 2002 with 700 detainees. More than a decade later, 166 remain and more than half are in political limbo, waiting for the Obama administration and Congress to decide whether to close the prison.

An American flag flying over Camp VI, where detainees are housed at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.

This week, four House Armed Services Subcommittees begin their markups of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.

Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just Thursday, in a speech reframing US anti-terror policy that will shape his presidential legacy.

President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday, a White House official said.

The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy.

Barack Obama will speak at the National Defense University tomorrow, where's he's expected to address his counterterrorism policies, including targeted killings, the war on Al-Qaeda, and closing Guantanamo Bay.

The Pentagon is requesting more than $450 from lawmakers for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay camp.