As the World Trade Center and Pentagon were ablaze on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Secret Service's presidential protective detail was informed that a "Korean airliner has been hijacked" en route to San Francisco, prompting already-skittish agents to worry about another wave of terrorist attacks.

A scion of a powerful political family detained for allegedly masterminding a gruesome massacre of 57 civilians in the southern Philippines Friday blamed Muslim separatist rebels for the carnage.

A man walks with the national flag in front of the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the sites of last year's militant attacks, in Mumbai November 26.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has paid out the equivalent of nearly $120,000 over the arrest of a lieutenant of the country's Taliban warlord ahead of a major Muslim festival, the military said yesterday.

Islamabad: The bizarre episode last year when the Pakistani government alleged that Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee had called up their president Asif Ali Zardari and abused him, has now found resolution with the revelation by Pakistani news paper Dawn that the whole episode was a hoax pulled by none other than Daniel Pearl killer, and LeT ...

The unnamed official said King Abdullah had expressly ordered armed forces only to expel the rebels from Saudi territory and not to cross the border, SPA said.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to troops during a visit to Afghanistan in February 2008.

Wed Nov 25, 11:27 am ET WASHINGTON is issuing a stern warning to Pakistan on the eve of the first anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attacks .

A grand jury in Philadelphia indicted four men Tuesday in connection with a plot to support the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah through illegal schemes, including buying the group more than a thousand machine guns.

David S. Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice, and U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy, together with Janice K. Fedarcyk, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , John P. Kelleghan, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement , Don Fort, Special Agent in Charge of the ...

A Pakistani court indicted seven Pakistani suspects on terror charges on Wednesday in connection with last year's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, a defense lawyer said.

Pakistani officials have arrested a retired Pakistani army major for his suspected role in an alleged plot that was hatched in the U.S. to assassinate the creator of controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the Pakistani army said Tuesday.

Iraq was not the biggest worry for British officials trying to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction two years before it was invaded, the inquiry into the conflict has heard.

The FBI has dismantled an alleged Hezbollah cell accused of arms dealing, depositing counterfeit money in a Canadian bank and selling a Canadian passport to support the Lebanese terrorist group.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.

President Barack Obama showered praise on India and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an elaborate welcoming ceremony Tuesday, declaring it was only fitting the Indian leader should be the first state visitor of his administration.

The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaida in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American officials say.

The U.S. federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence.

The remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war while working for the United Nations, have been positively identified, the U.N. announced Monday.