Terrorism News

Current and former top Central Intelligence Agency officers have appeared before a federal grand jury in Virginia as part of an 18-month investigation into the agency's destruction of 92 videotapes depicting the brutal interrogations of two Qaeda detainees.

U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.

McDonalds 'target' of Athens bomb Members of the Greek anti-terrorist team inspect the area outside a cordoned-off McDonald's fast food in Athens early Friday, July 3, 2009.

A Government decision to "exile" a terrorism suspect from London on the basis of secret evidence must be revoked, the High Court has ruled.

In this Tuesday, June 9, 2009 file photo, a supporter of main challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, standing next to a poster of him, whistles as she films the event with her mobile phone, amidst a festive atmosphere at an election rally at the Heidarnia stadium in Tehran, Iran.

The Obama administration on Thursday authorized the seizure of assets belonging to an extremist organization in Iraq and an Iranian backer of insurgents, saying both are responsible for deadly attacks in Iraq.

U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.

NBC News has scheduled its controversial to-catch-a-terrorist investigative program, in which an elite team hunts war criminals.

After his capture, Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, the hostile neighbor he considered a bigger threat than the U.S. Saddam also dismissed Osama bin Laden as a "zealot," said he had never personally met the al-Qaida leader ...

LAWYERS for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the US government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to 'physical and psychological ill-treatment' at secret CIA prisons known as 'black sites' until they can inspect them.

Britain unveiled a new medal Wednesday that will be offered to families of about 8,000 military personnel killed on active duty or in terrorist attacks since World War II.

The Treasury Department on Wednesday took action against four Pakistani men suspected of providing support to terror groups in the country.

The United Nations formally began a six-month investigation Wednesday into the slaying of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a process that the government hopes will lead to her killers being brought to justice.

The blockade of Gaza is causing severe humanitarian hardship and the situation is getting worse every day, the head of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Wednesday.

Pakistani militants in a northwestern region have scrapped a peace deal with the government and vowed to launch attacks, threatening to open a new front against the army already fighting in two areas.

Managers and developers of high-profile skyscrapers and other buildings in the city need to take more steps to guard against terrorist attacks, according to a new report by the New York Police Department."The same qualities that make the city's buildings recognized icons of design, culture and commerce also make them continuous targets of ...

The text of the US travel warning follows: The Department of State warns American citizens traveling to or living in Sri Lanka about the potential for continued instability, including possible terrorist attacks.

The Sri Lanka government says it needs new recruits to administer the 16,000sq km liberated from LTTE control Sri Lanka plans to add at least 50,000 people to its security forces to help control territory won back from Tamil Tiger separatists in the 25-year war that ended in May, the government said yesterday.

Piotr Stanczak did not exhibit the slightest hint of hesitation when the Pakistani Taliban asked him to choose between execution and conversion to Islam.

A panel of 18 judges at the National Court decided by a wide majority to support prosecutors who opposed the probe on the ground that Israel already was investigating the attack, the court said in a statement.