Tag: Al Qaeda

Senators Debate Mattis and Tillerson over Authorizing Military Force

Jenna Lifhits · October 31, 2017 11:48 am

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis testified during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Monday, during which he discussed the aging authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF, passed after the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Jim Mattis: If Trump wanted, he could send US combat troops after Boko Haram

Travis J. Tritten · October 30, 2017 11:24 pm

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, to brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed-doors regarding the administration's perspective on the authorizations for the use of military force. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jim Mattis and Rex Tillerson will testify as Senate war authorization debate heats up

Travis J. Tritten · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

Nathan Michael Smith, a former Army intelligence analyst, filed a suit last year claiming President Obama was illegally fighting Islamic State terrorists without congressional authorization. His case is being heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review

Steven Nelson · October 27, 2017 8:34 pm

They should have taken the time to know. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

US senators have no excuse for their Niger ignorance

Tom Rogan · October 23, 2017 6:14 pm

Members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) celebrate at stadium that was the site of Islamic State fighters' last stand in the city of Raqqa, Syria, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Syrian Kurdish-led forces backed by the U.S. declare victory in the devastated northern city of Raqqa days after it cleared it from members of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Asmaa Waguih)

Destruction of the Islamic State is not yet mission accomplished

Washington Examiner · October 22, 2017 4:01 am

Pompeo: Al-Qaeda-Iran Connection an ‘Open Secret’

Jenna Lifhits · October 19, 2017 6:35 pm

Somalis gather and search for survivors by destroyed buildings at the scene of a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

National Security

Death toll from blast in Somalia’s capital rises to 189

Associated Press · October 15, 2017 12:27 pm

A Guantanamo Bay detainee has been sentenced to 13 years in confinement. Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi is a Saudi Arabian citizen and according to a Department of Defense memorandum, was a mid-to-high-level al Qaeda operative. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

National Security

Guantanamo detainee sentenced to 13 years in confinement for terrorism charges

Diana Stancy Correll · October 14, 2017 3:40 am

They are ultimate warrior diplomats. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Beltway Confidential

How, in Niger and beyond, the Green Berets serve US security

Tom Rogan · October 5, 2017 7:36 pm

Las Vegas police gather following a deadly shooter at a music festival in Las Vegas. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the mass shooting and said the shooter converted to Islam several months ago. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

ISIS claims responsibility for Las Vegas shooting, calls gunman one of its ‘soldiers’

Melissa Quinn · October 2, 2017 2:23 pm

This image taken from video released by Qatar's Al-Jazeera television broadcast on Oct. 5, 2001, is said to show Osama bin Laden and his then top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian doctor turned terrorist, who has been driven underground by a relentless U.S. campaign to capture or kill him. He's believed to be hiding out in Pakistan, and has been largely sidelined as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has eclipsed al Qaeda as the preeminent terrorist threat to West. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Al-Jazeera via APTN)

Could Osama bin Laden’s favorite child take over the family business?

Jamie McIntyre · October 2, 2017 4:01 am