Tag: Terrorism

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 20, 2014 8:55 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Naming the Islamist militants in the news: ISIS or ISIL?

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2014 7:51 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. In the strongest sign yet of U.S. doubts about Iraq's stability, the Obama administration is weighing whether to press the Shiite prime minister in Baghdad to step down in a last-ditch effort to prevent disgruntled Sunnis from igniting a full-scale civil war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

5 facts about the new U.S. mission in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 20, 2014 12:55 pm

Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., said recent developments in Iraq and Syria -- where radical Islamists have gained ground -- are cause for some concern. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Rep. Robert Pittenger works to reassure America’s allies post-Edward Snowden

Spencer Brown · June 19, 2014 10:01 pm

Afghanistan's presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, center, waits for journalists before a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Afghanistan's political crisis is showing no signs of easing as presidential candidate Abdullah said the electoral commission has ignored his demands and he will not resume cooperation with them. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Taliban strike NATO trucks in east Afghanistan

RAHIM FAIEZAMIR SHAH · June 19, 2014 8:13 pm

14 dead in bombing of WCup view site in Nigeria

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 4:01 pm

Hayes Podcast: Benghazi Capture Good, But Unlikely to Yield Answers

TWS Podcast · June 18, 2014 1:10 pm

National Security

VIDEO — House lawmakers: What’s next after Bowe Bergdahl swap?

Ed Sykes · June 18, 2014 12:40 pm

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising from a Syrian government forces airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. A car bomb exploded in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq on Tuesday, killing many people, including a local rebel commander, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Activists: Syrian strikes target refugees, kill 7

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 9:14 am

This Image made from video posted by Iraqi0Revolution, a group supporting the al Qaeda breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows a militant standing in front of a burning Iraqi Army Humvee in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo/Iraqi0Revolution via AP video, File)

Beltway Confidential

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee arrested in Spain for recruiting ISIS fighters

Blake Seitz · June 17, 2014 9:27 pm

Kerry: Terrorists in Syria, Iraq ‘Thinking About How They Can Hurt People… in the United States’

Jeryl Bier · June 17, 2014 6:18 pm

Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The Pentagon says a Libyan militant accused in a deadly attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is in U.S. custody. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)

National Security

U.S. captures Benghazi terror suspect

Brian Hughes · June 17, 2014 5:41 pm