Senior U.S. official confirms new addition to growing list of more than 100 released Guantanamo Bay detainees who have returned to terrorism. After being fitted with a prosthetic leg (at a cost to American taxpayers between $50,000 and $75,000) ... (Continue reading)
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden threatened in a new audio recording released Thursday to kill any captured Americans if the U.S. executes the accused mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks or any other Al Qaeda suspects. In a brief 74-second... (Continue reading)
Headley pleaded not guilty in January to 12 counts, including six that charge a conspiracy to murder and maim people in India and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The most serious charges, conspiracy to bomb public places... (Continue reading)
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was captured by Pakistani authorities in a raid, has become "a vital asset in gathering information on the Taliban and other extremist groups operating in the region," states an unnamed Pakistani. The former operations chief... (Continue reading)
Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, was dressed in white robes and wearing a white turban as he called for attacks on what he described as "high-value targets." Gadahn said fighters should target mass transportation systems in the West and... (Continue reading)
"September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."... (Continue reading)
Al Qaeda's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening to further destabilize the continent's already vulnerable Sahara region, according to U.S. defense and counterterrorism officials.... (Continue reading)
The program was widely praised by American and foreign counterterrorism officials until 11 of its graduates, nearly half of them former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, showed up in Yemen, the latest battleground in the militant Islamists' holy war against regional... (Continue reading)
Intelligence ties between London and Washington have been jeopardized by a British court's disclosure that a terrorism suspect was beaten and shackled in U.S. custody, diplomats and security officials said Wednesday.... (Continue reading)
Al-Awlaki said he supported the Christmas attack, but it would have been better if the target was a U.S. military target or plane. "I support what Umar Farouk did after seeing my brothers in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan being killed," he... (Continue reading)