The U.S. missile strike that killed a top al-Qaida commander slightly more than a mile from a Pakistani military base shows how entrenched Islamic militants are in the lawless tribal regions, where extremists have launched increasingly bold attacks. ...more

February 2, 2008

Intelligence agents Sunday were sifting through evidence collected during a weekend crackdown on a group of suspected Islamic militants who the police say were plotting an attack on Barcelona. ...more

January 21, 2008

Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is suffering the violent blowback of that policy, two former senior intelligence officials and other officials close to the agency say. ...more

January 15, 2008

After 29 consecutive years of an epic event that saw drivers enduring extreme heat and cold crossing the Sahara Desert, organizers canceled the world's biggest off-road race Friday after an al-Qaida-linked group threatened the 5,760-mile Dakar Rally. ...more

January 5, 2008

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Saturday that violent attacks in the country had fallen by 60 percent since June, but cautioned that security gains are "tenuous" and "fragile," requiring political and economic progress to cement them. ...more

December 30, 2007

If Abu Zubaydah, a senior operative of al-Qaida, died in American hands, CIA officers pursuing the terrorist group knew that much of the world would think they had killed him. ...more

December 30, 2007

For Benazir Bhutto, the decision to return to Pakistan was sealed during a telephone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just a week before Bhutto flew home in October. The call culminated more than a year of secret diplomacy - and came only when it became clear that the heir to Pakistan's most powerful political dynasty was the only one who could bail out Washington's key ally in the battle against terrorism. ...more

December 28, 2007

Even before the official search got under way in Pakistan, U.S. intelligence agencies on Thursday were drawing up their own list of possible suspects in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a list that included al-Qaida as well as elements of Pakistan's own intelligence service. ...more

December 28, 2007

A resurgent al-Qaida terrorist network has shifted the focus of its attacks to Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday. ...more

December 22, 2007

Al-Qaida captive Abu Zubaydah, whose interrogation videotapes were destroyed by the CIA, remains the subject of a dispute between FBI and CIA officials over his significance as a terrorism suspect and whether his most important revelations came from traditional interrogations or from torture. ...more

December 20, 2007