Tag: Terrorism

Customs and Border Patrol officials aren't sure whether or why staff at various U.S. ports decline to examine maritime cargo shipments that have been deemed "high-risk" for smuggling weapons or drugs into the country because the agency doesn't keep reliable data on the process.Â (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Border patrol doesn’t screen all high-risk shipments

Sarah Bedford · January 29, 2015 1:58 pm

Dem Congresswoman Mocks Kerry’s Terrorism Speech

John McCormack · January 28, 2015 8:12 pm

WH Won’t Call Taliban a ‘Terrorist Group’

WH Won’t Call Taliban a ‘Terrorist Group’

Daniel Halper · January 28, 2015 7:59 pm

US Africa Command Commander Gen. David Rodriguez speaks during a news briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, on the Defense Department's response to Ebola. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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U.S. Africa Command: ‘We can’t see’ enough to monitor violent extremist groups

Tara Copp · January 28, 2015 12:41 am

In this image made from video posted by a Libyan blogger, the Cortinthia Hotel is seen under attack in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gunmen stormed the luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, killing several foreigners and guards, officials said. The attack, which included a car bombing, struck the hotel, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea. The blogger, @AliTweel, captured the moments shortly after the blast, when flames rose up from outside the hotel, appearing to be from the aftermath of the car bomb. (AP Photo/ @AliTweel via AP video)

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U.S. citizen killed in terrorist attack in Libya

Tara Copp · January 27, 2015 10:50 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with a U.S. magazine, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Assad has dismissed negotiations with "puppets" in an interview with a U.S. magazine ahead of talks set to begin in Moscow. (AP Photo)

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Assertive Assad bedevils U.S. efforts in Syria

Charles Hoskinson · January 27, 2015 10:00 am

Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. A team of Justice Department evaluators has given mostly high ratings to the management style of Loretta Lynch, the nominee for attorney general. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Civil rights group launches pro-Lynch lobbying blitz

Susan Crabtree · January 26, 2015 7:26 pm

The emails suggested the Pentagon had military forces ready to deploy to Benghazi the night of the attack.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

State Department told embassies Benghazi attack wasn’t terrorism

Ethan Barton · January 26, 2015 7:14 pm

VIDEO: State Dept. says counterterrorism efforts will continue in Yemen

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VIDEO: State Dept. says counterterrorism efforts will continue in Yemen

Steve Doty · January 26, 2015 7:08 pm

An area controlled by the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria. Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, marking a major loss for extremists whose hopes for easy victory dissolved into a bloody, costly siege that seems close to ending in defeat. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin)

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Kurds claim control of disputed Syrian town of Kobani

Charles Hoskinson · January 26, 2015 4:49 pm

Houthi Shiite fighters wearing an army uniform ride on a pickup truck as they patrol a street during a demonstration to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Obama ‘not surprised’ at Yemen collapse

Sarah Bedford · January 25, 2015 7:44 pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media after he signed a book of condolence for the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Obama offers condolences to Japan after Islamic State execution

Sarah Bedford · January 25, 2015 5:44 pm