A suicide bomber infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight Americans in what is thought to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war and one of the deadliest in the agency's history, U.S. officials said. ...more

December 31, 2009

A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaida operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan. ...more

December 11, 2009

The White House pushed forward Thursday with a review to determine whether U.S. intelligence agencies adequately shared information about Maj. Nidal Hasan, and military prosecutors charged the Army psychiatrist with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. ...more

November 13, 2009

Government sources say Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program eight years ago that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June. ...more

July 11, 2009

12,000 Number of U.S. soldiers to withdraw from Iraq by September 12 Number of combat brigades to be left in Iraq after the troops leave in September ...more

March 9, 2009

A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say. ...more

February 27, 2009

In one of the first acts of his presidency, Barack Obama fulfilled a campaign promise and reversed the most disputed counterterrorism policies of the Bush administration. He signed executive orders closing the Guantanamo detention camp within a year, ending the CIA's secret prisons and requiring interrogators to use only methods prescribed in the Army Field Manual. ...more

February 13, 2009

By the time Mohamed Abdi Ibrahim decided to leave Somalia, life in the southern city of Kismaayo had become, as he put it with consummate understatement, "complicated." ...more

December 29, 2008

A cross-border raid by U.S. special forces killed the al-Qaida-linked head of a Syrian network that smuggled fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq, an American counterterrorism official said Monday. ...more

October 28, 2008

A sophisticated bombing plot carried out against the U.S. Embassy in Yemen brings increased urgency to fears that Muslim extremists are gathering strength in that nation and could make it a headquarters for terrorism. ...more

September 18, 2008