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  washington A senior defence official has told a congressional hearing on drone strikes carried out by US military that the war on terror is one without end or boundary. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Assistant Defence Secretary Michael Sheehan said theUSmilitary operations against al-Qaeda and associated forces “is going to...

    ISLAMABAD   US Ambassador Richard Olson on Friday met JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and congratulated him as his party has won seats in national and provincial assemblies. The ambassador underscored theUScommitment to a strong bilateral relationship withPakistanbased on respect and mutual interest, according to statement issued by Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F)....

Authorities in Idaho said they have arrested a man from Uzbekistan who was planning to building a bomb. Fazliddin Kurbanov is accused of conspiring with a terrorist organization in his home country and helping to build a weapon of mass destruction.

La justicia necesitó más de dos décadas para tumbar la protección del dictador y conseguir que pagara por sus crímenes y cumpliera condena

Obama rules out unilateral action in Syria as Russia ships advanced missiles to Assad Top news: U.S. President Barack Obama again ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria at a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday. "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. And I don't think anybody in...

Glamour, Geträller, schillernde Fassaden: Vor einem Jahr blickte die Weltöffentlichkeit auf den ESC im autoritär regierten Aserbaidschan. Doch kaum war der Medientross abgezogen, kehrte Stille ein. Was hat sich geändert? Oppositionelle, Künstler und Blogger äußern sich zur Situation im Land.

Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Liyaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital, was today granted bail by a special NIA court.    

Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Liyaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital, was today granted bail by a special NIA court.    

Livni examines "more serious steps" on 'price tag' attacks.

What do you do when monsters rise from the sea? You marry man and machine and unleash the robots, of course! The official main trailer for Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro's...

A Pentagon official urged Congress not to modify the statute providing the legal basis for battling the perpetrators of 9/11 because, he said, the war against Al Qaeda was likely to continue for “at least 10 to 20 years.”    

Obama shifts Benghazi blame to Congress, refers to the terror attack as an 'incident,' and won't say if anyone - other than himself - in the White House knew the IRS was targeting conservative groups

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes....

Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus strongly objected to the Obama administrations version of events during the terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya newly released emails show.

Der 19-jährige Terrorverdächtige Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (kl. Bild), hat womöglich kurz vor seiner Verhaftung in einem "Bekennerschreiben" die Verantwortung für den Doppelanschlag auf den Bostoner Marathon übernommen. Wie der US-Sender "CBS News" am Donnerstag berichtete, fanden Ermittler eine Notiz in jenem Motorboot, in welchem sich der jüngere der beiden Terror-Brüder...

India's second largest software services firm Infosys has said that terror attacks like the ones in Mumbai and the US as well as hostilities with Pakistan can affect the firm's business.    

Der NSU-Ausschuss musste zwar viele Fragen offenlassen. Doch bewiesen haben die Abgeordneten eine parteiübergreifende Einigkeit im Kampf gegen rechten Terror. Von M. Lau

Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus strongly objected to the Obama administrations version of events during the terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya newly released emails show.

Congress should not grant the president the power to go after any group he deems a terrorist organization.    

State Dept. officials repeatedly objected to references to Islamic extremist groups, prior security warnings in Libya in the Obama administration's initial internal storyline on the Benghazi terror attack, according to dozens of emails and notes released by the White House late Wednesday. READ: Obama Administration's Internal Benghazi EmailsVIDEO:...

  James S. Brady Press Briefing Room     1:26 P.M. EDT     MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  I want to thank you for being here today.     I’ve often been asked and seen some comments about what it’s like to be up here, having been over there on the firing line, if you will.  And I can remember sitting in the chair that...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:09 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you for being here.  I appreciate your attendance.  And I have no announcements to make at the top, so I'll go straight to the Associated Press. Q    Thanks, Jay.  For fear of stating the obvious, the White House right now is confronting a confluence of issues...

In what seems like a move to cater to sectional sentiments, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday said the Centre will ask states to set up fast-track courts to take up cases of Muslim youth who are in jail on terror charges.    

Rivals MS13 and Barrio 18, with up to 60,000 members, have agreed to keep the peace as part of a church-brokered dealFor more than a decade the San José del Pino neighbourhood in Santa Tecla was off limits to police. It was considered the headquarters for the criminal enterprises of one of El Salvador's ruthless street gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13. Drugs and weapons...

The Islamabad high court had recently directed that Musharraf should be booked under the anti-terror law for detaining dozens of judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.    

The Islamabad high court had recently directed that Musharraf should be booked under the anti-terror law for detaining dozens of judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.    

Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall argues that the Ben Rhodes email published by CNN on Tuesday changes the nature of ABC News's exclusive report about revisions to the Benghazi talking points. Karl was using summaries of the emails -- a fact he did not fully and clearly disclose. The summary he relied upon suggested Obama's top aide had wanted to address State...

Eric Holder says he's recused himself from the AP investigation (POLITICO || Reid J. Epstein and Josh Gerstein) Fact-checking Obama's claim that he called the Benghazi attack an act of terror (Washington Post || Glenn Kessler) CNN and ABC differ on revisions to the Benghazi talking points (POLITICO || Dylan Byers) It's only Tuesday, but the president is already having...

CNN's Jake Tapper has obtained an email sent by top Obama aide Ben Rhodes, which, Tapper reports, "differs from how sources were inaccurately quoted and paraphrased" in last week's ABC News exclusive about revisions to the CIA's Benghazi talking points. The upshot here is that while ABC reporter Jon Karl's account of the email suggests Rhodes had voiced concern over the...

Come for Tom Hanks + Zooey Deschanel, stay for Mike Tyson + Michelle Obama, then run in terror from Sarah Palin + Honey Boo. The animated GIF has reached its apogee in Hybrid Celebrities, a collection of nightmarish video faceswaps at the distinctly NSFW DailyPicDump.com. [Thanks, Papa Fapa!]    

Eric Holder says story related to subpoena of phone records was 'very, very serious' while Obama faces scrutiny on press rightsThe US attorney general, Eric Holder, has defended the Obama administration's controversial seizure of phone records from the Associated Press, saying that a story run by the news organisation had posed a major security threat to the American public.Holder,...

‘We had to run away from Syria because of the bombs and now the war is following us’    

Erschütternde Zahlen in Sachen Menschenhandel, Hackerattacken in Serie, Bombenterror - der Zeitpunkt für den fünftägigen US-Trip der österreichischen Polizeispitze, angeführt von Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner, könnte passender nicht sein. Ziel der Tour: eine intensivere Zusammenarbeit mit der UNO, dem FBI und der CIA.

The Department of Justice secretly seized two months' worth of phone records of Associated Press journalists after the newswire broke news of a foiled terror plot in Yemen, the AP reported Monday.

The US government secretly obtained Associated Press reporters' phone records as it apparently hunted for the source of a leaked story about a foiled al-Qaeda terror plot.    

Picass0 writes with distressing news from the AP wire, about the AP: "The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news." They obtained call records from a number...

In einem empörten Brief hat sich der Chef der weltgrößten Nachrichtenagentur beim US-Justizministerium beschwert. Dieses soll heimlich Telefonate abgehört haben, um an Terror-Recherchen zu kommen.

Erschütternde Zahlen in Sachen Menschenhandel, Hackerattacken in Serie, Bombenterror - der Zeitpunkt für den fünftägigen US-Trip der rotweißroten Polizeispitze, angeführt von Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner, könnte passender nicht sein. Ziel der Tour: eine intensivere Zusammenarbeit mit der UNO, dem FBI, der CIA und dem amerikanischen Inlandsgeheimdienst.

Justice Department obtains two months of records in what AP's top executive calls 'massive and unprecedented intrusion'The US Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather...

Federal authorities prosecuting two brothers on allegations they plotted to blow up a high-profile target in New York City are refusing to divulge whether they cracked the case by employing a style of warrantless electronic eavesdropping first introduced by President George W. Bush in the wake of 9/11.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi and how President Barack Obama's administration responded to the unfolding events. "I do think we're going to see more whistle blowers. I certainly know my committee...

The next prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has promised to stand together with the West in taking on the forces of terrorism, hours after voting finished in the country’s historic general election. During a close-fought campaign Nawaz Sharif had promised to end drone strikes and review the country’s relationship with America. As he publicly claimed victory in the...

Armeechef Musharraf putschte ihn 1999 aus dem Amt, nun könnte Nawaz Sharif zum dritten Mal Premierminister in Pakistan werden. Überschattet wurden die Wahlen von Taliban-Terror, der mindestens 29 Todesopfer forderte.

COLOMBO : - Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from jail without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a tough anti-terrorism law, his lawyer said Saturday. Azath Sally, 49, the former deputy mayor of Colombo, was arrested on Sunday and detained in police custody in what the minority Muslim community described as the latest attack on...

Europeans expected to permit Shi’ite Lebanese group’s political arm to operate as legal organization, while proscribing Hezbollah’s military wing as a terror entity, sources tell 'The Jerusalem Post.'

Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt created a compelling series of images titled Car Crash Studies depicting mangled, smashed up vehicles that have been involved in severe and potentially deadly wrecks.

Do your genes, rather than upbringing, determine whether you will become a criminal? Adrian Raine believed so – and breaking that taboo put him on collision course with the world of scienceIn 1987, Adrian Raine, who describes himself as a neurocriminologist, moved from Britain to the US. His emigration was prompted by two things. The first was a sense of banging his...

House Speaker John Boehner faces growing pressure to create a special or select committee to investigate the Benghazi terror attacks, as the House resolution to form one now has at least 139 co-sponsors.White House Scrambles to Contain Benghazi-gate FalloutVIDEO: How the Media Covered the Benghazi Hearing VIDEO: Who Gave Stand Down Order? Egypt...

Millions of Pakistani voters defied terrorists as they turned out at polling stations Saturday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder says those who argue that civilian courts are incapable of handling terrorism cases "are simply wrong."...

Many of the 10,000 or so bird species on the planet are pretty, melodic or tasty. But birds are much more than that. Over the centuries, humankind has come up with some distinctive and surprising ways to take advantage of the unique abilities of our feathered friends. At various points in the history of civilizations, birds have served as hunters, guides and messengers....

Großer Andrang bei der Parlamentswahl in Pakistan: Selbst Bombenanschläge und Taliban-Terror konnten die Menschen nicht davon abhalten, ihre Stimmen abzugeben. Die Abstimmung musste sogar verlängert werden, es wird mit einer Rekordbeteiligung gerechnet.

Behind the scenes, the IDF’s electronic warfare capabilities have become a key to battlefield victory, not only against rival militaries, but increasingly against terror organizations, such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

Heute wird in Pakistan ein neues Parlament gewählt. Beobachter rechnen mit deutlichen Zugewinnen für radikal-islamische Kräfte – was weitreichende Konsequenzen für den Anti-Terror-Kampf der USA hätte.

Americans deserve to hear the dirty secrets of the CIA’s war on terror. We’ll all be better off with the truth.

Knapp zwölf Jahre nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 hat das neue World Trade Center seine endgültige Bauhöhe erreicht. Für viele New Yorker ist das 541 Meter hohe Gebäude ein Symbol für den Neuanfang - und ein Zeichen gegen den Terror.

Es waren die Anschläge vom 11. September, mit denen Pakistan im Blickfeld einer breiten westlichen Öffentlichkeit auftauchte. Vor dem Beginn des Krieges gegen den Terror war es für die allermeisten M...

Despite the White House's denials, new email evidence suggests that the administration's State Department had a direct hand in obscuring the cause of a terror attack on the U.S. consulate and the deaths of four Americans.

The plane slowed dramatically during a flight from Aberdeen to the Shetland Isles yesterday, after a faulty cargo door opened mid-flight.

Für New York ist es ein symbolischer, feierlicher Moment: In Süd-Manhattan ist die mehr als hundert Meter lange Spitze auf dem neuen World Trade Center montiert worden. Wo der Terror des 11. September 2011 eine gewaltige Lücke in die Skyline riss, steht nun wieder das höchste Gebäude der Stadt.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails....

Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said he recommended to President Benigno Aquino that he withdraw its peacekeeping forces from the Golan Heights after four soldiers were abducted Tuesday. The Syrian rebel Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade said it is holding the soldiers "for their own safety" and has posted two videos of the men to show that they have not...

Bomben auf Wahlbüros, verletzte und entführte Politiker: Pakistan steht vor dem Machtwechsel, doch der Wahlkampf verlief nicht überall friedlich. Der Wahlkampf in Bildern

A court in Barabanki has turned down request of the SP government in UP to withdraw terror cases against an accused alleged to be HuJI operative.

Pakistan goes to the polls on Saturday after an unsettling run-up that saw a series of terror attacks, including former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son being abducted.

Ali Haider, 27, was kidnapped on Thursday while campaigning for the May 11 polls in his hometown of Multan, often considered a stronghold of the Gilani family.    

Announcement by Islamist cleric's lawyers is breakthrough for home secretary in battle to deport himThe radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada will voluntarily go back to Jordan if and when its parliament ratifies a new deportation treaty with Britain, his lawyers have said.The disclosure is a major breakthrough for the home secretary, Theresa May, in her battle to deport...

Many moderates are concerned that Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi is allowed to run for office despite allegations of terror offencesThrowing money around in mosques is not usually the done thing at Friday prayers, Islam's weekly holy day.But when Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi exhorts the 1,500 followers that cram into the mosque that towers over the back alleys of Jhang city to put...