Tag: Terrorism

National Security

Obama plans to cut U.S. presence in Afghanistan

Susan Crabtree · May 27, 2014 8:02 pm

Nigeria's chief of defense staff Air Marshal Alex S. Badeh, front, and other army chiefs wait to address the Nigerians Against Terrorism group during a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, May 26, 2014. Scores of protesters chanting "Bring Back Our Girls" marched in the Nigerian capital Monday to protest the abductions of more than 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government's failure to rescue them and the killings of scores of teachers by Islamic extremists in recent years. (AP Photo/Gbenga Olamikan)

Impasse in rescue of Nigerian girls

adamuharuna-umar, michelle-fauladamu · May 27, 2014 6:17 pm

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama welcomes debate on terror war as a means of avoiding it

Gene Healy · May 27, 2014 1:17 pm

Norway: 3 arrested for links to terror group

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 8:08 am

China says 5 terror suspects detained

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 4:24 am

Japan pop group AKB48 cancels events after attack

Mari Yamaguchi · May 27, 2014 3:32 am

Beltway Confidential

Nigerian army says it knows where missing girls are located

Ashe Schow · May 27, 2014 1:10 am

Syrian expatriates chant anti-Assad slogans as they celebrate the Jordanian government's decision to expel the Syrian Ambassador, Bahjat Suleiman, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, May 26, 2014. Jordan has expelled the Syrian ambassador from the country, giving him 24 hours to leave Amman. The state-run Petra news agency said Monday, May 26, 2014 that the government declared Ambassador Bahjat Suleiman persona non-grata on Monday and asked him to leave. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Jordan expels Syrian envoy in diplomatic tussle

Zeina Karam · May 26, 2014 6:43 pm

Afghan National army soldiers arrive to the scene after suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 26, 2014. A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle on Monday killed at least two Afghan defense ministry staffers and wounded at least several others after he rammed a bus carrying soldiers and civilian employees who were returning home from work. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Officials: Kabul bombing kills 2 wounds 9

RAHIM FAIEZAMIR SHAH · May 26, 2014 1:11 pm

FILE - In this May 23, 2014 file photo, paramilitary policemen with shields and batons patrol near the People's Square in Urumqi, China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. So far this month, police in China's restive western region of Xinjiang have broken up 23 terror and religious extremism groups and caught over 200 suspects, state media reported Monday, May 26. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Doubts cast on China’s counter-terrorism abilities

Didi Tang · May 26, 2014 9:54 am

FILE - In this May 23, 2014 file photo, paramilitary policemen with shields and batons patrol near the People's Square in Urumqi, China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. So far this month, police in China's restive western region of Xinjiang have broken up 23 terror and religious extremism groups and caught over 200 suspects, state media reported Monday, May 26. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China: 23 terror, extremist groups busted in May

Louise Watt · May 26, 2014 4:18 am

In this hand out photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. Police stepped up security at Jewish institutions, schools and synagogues after three people were killed and one seriously injured in a spree of gunfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police)

Belgium hunts for suspect in Jewish attack; 3 dead

Raf Casert · May 25, 2014 9:29 pm