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A Michigan man and his two sons were seriously injured by a car bomb late Tuesday, but all three are expected to survive. Police are investigating whether the attack was random or targeted at one of the victims.

Sahin indicated that “it is highly likely the explosion was a terrorist attack.”

A federal appeals court said on Monday that the 17-year prison sentence imposed on Jose Padilla, a US citizen also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, who was convicted of aiding terrorists in 2007, was too lenient.

A low-intensity blast at a hospital in the tourist city of Agra injured at least three people on Saturday, a local police official said.

Major sports events like the Olympics and soccer World Cup should retain tight security to counter terrorist threats, but policing should be less visible and more flexible, a top international security expert said on Friday.

The police on Tuesday killed one of the most wanted top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Abdullah Ooni at an encounter at Batpora in Sopore (Kashmir).

New al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri voiced support in an Internet video for popular revolts shaking the Middle East, saying Arabs no longer feared the United States 10 years after the country was targeted by the militant network.

Terming the dialogue initiated by the British government with Colonel Gaddafi in 2003 as right decision, the former MI5 chief Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller today acknowledged that though it was difficult, but the decision to engage in dialogue with Gaddafi in 2003 was right.

With the nation reaching the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack, the United States has moved to a heightened state of alert: government officials have been trying to strike a balance between recommending caution and stirring up unnecessary fear.

As bagpipes played Sunday morning in New York and names were being read of those who perished in the deadly 9/11 attacks which occurred exactly one decade ago today, America was reminded from a deadly truck bombing outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan that the nation remains at war.

A large Taliban truck bomb detonated outside an American military based in Afghanistan has left at least two Afghan civilians dead and leaving as many as 77 NATO personnel injured, officials said Sunday. The injured NATO troops were mostly Americans, a U.S. defense official said of the bombing, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility. NATO's International Security Assistance Force has also confirmed the attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide bomber.

Americans on Sunday remembered the horror of September 11, 2001, and the nearly 3,000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks as authorities worked to ensure the emotional 10th anniversary was peaceful.

Despite a credible but unconfirmed terror threat against New York City and Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama will not change his plans to travel to ground zero for the 10th anniversary of the Sept . 11 terrorist attacks.

Evidence found in Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan indicated that he wanted to attack the United States on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised, security has been ramped up following the reveal of credible intelligence that al-Qaida militants in Pakistan may be pursuing a plot to carry out car or truck bombings in Washington and New York City to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 stunned the United States and the world, and pushed both in to a new era: The day remains the most important international event since the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

President Barack Obama on Thursday directed U.S. intelligence officials to take all precautions after receiving credible intelligence that al-Qaida militants in Pakistan may be pursuing a plot to carry out car or truck bombings in Washington, D.C., and New York City to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Vice President Joe Biden said Friday the first active plot timed to coincide with the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of al-Qaida's deadly attack is a real threat.

Amid a credible terrorist attack threat against New York and Washington around the upcoming 10th anniversary of al-Qaida's deadly attack on the U.S., New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg rode the subway Friday morning in the effort to assure the city's 8.8 million residents that preparations are in place.

The United States has killed the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. But in engaging in two costly wars, did the U.S. do much of what bin Laden wanted the U.S. to do?

“Repeated terror attacks on innocent civilians are clearly an indication of poor security arrangements on the part of the government.