Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was arrested in Cairo on Wednesday. But which Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was it? The al-Qaeda apostate or the militant leader behind the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings?
The Obama administration will not swerve from plans to move into an advisory role in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday, despite the killing of U.S. advisers over the weekend that underscored the risks foreign soldiers will face as they rush to train Afghan forces.
WikiLeaks has published over five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis and intelligence firm, Stratfor.
Defeating polio in India was no easy endeavor; a uniquely high level of cooperation between India's government and the UN World Health Organization was the key to success.
At least nine people are dead after a car bomb was detonated at a NATO airbase in Jalalabad, according to Afghan police. The Taliban has claimed the suicide attack was revenge for the recent burning of several copies of the Koran by U.S. soldiers, which have incited virulent protests beginning Feb. 22 across Afghanistan.
Nine people were killed in the suicide attack at the Jalalabad airport, which doubles as a coalition military base; a Taliban official said the act was revenge for U.S. troops burning Korans last week.
A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people in an attack on a military airport in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan on Monday in the latest act of violence and protests since copies of the Quran were burned at a NATO base last week. While there was no official indication Monday's bombing was linked to the protests and riots, the Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack as revenge for the Quran-burning.
A suicide car bombing killed at least six people early Monday at Jalalabad airport in Afghanistan.
Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, underscoring the depth of anti-Western fury over the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base.
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would begin publishing more than 5 million e-mails Monday from a U.S.-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers.
Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, as anti-Western fury deepened over the burning of the Koran at a NATO base.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum doesn't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, he said Sunday, two days ahead of the Michigan and Arizona primaries.
The U.S. government is eyeing Israel, Canada and the United Arab Emirates as possible initial foreign buyers of the V-22 Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft built by Boeing Co and Bell Helicopter, a top U.S. Marine Corps official told Reuters.
Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, as fury deepened over the burning of the Koran at a NATO base. The Afghan Interior Ministry identified one of its employees as a suspect in the fatal shooting of two U.S. officers in its headquarters a day earlier.
Afghan authorities said on Sunday they believe one of the country's police intelligence officers may have been involved in the shooting deaths of two U.S. officers inside the nation's interior ministry a day earlier, prompting NATO to recall all its staff from ministries.
Two American officers were shot dead at close range in Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a U.S. official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base.
The victims were both American, but their identities have not been revealed yet.
Two Americans who were shot dead Saturday inside the Interior Ministry in Afghanistan's capital Kabul are believed to be a colonel and a major in the U.S. military, according to Afghan security sources.
The Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks, in what was called the largest document leak in United States history, declined to enter a plea at this start of his court-martial on Thursday.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lambasted President Barack Obama for apologizing about the alleged burning of Korans and other sacred texts at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
Afghan protests over the burning of Qurans on a U.S. military base left 12 dead, making Friday the bloodiest day of demonstrations so far. Around 4000 protestors marched on the governor of Khost's compound, while in Nangarhar province thousands more chanted Death to America.
TORONTO, Feb. 23 -- Muslim countries are overthrowing fundamentalist rulers and the United States could have a Mormon presidential candidate as religion keeps a firm, inevitable foot in politics.
