Tag: Terrorism

Get ready for denials if terror strikes from across the border

Get ready for denials if terror strikes from across the border

Walter Williams · August 11, 2014 2:50 pm

Al-Qaida militants kill 15 Yemeni soldiers

Al-Qaida militants kill 15 Yemeni soldiers

Ahmed AlHaj · August 8, 2014 10:03 pm

Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby confirmed the news on Twitter Friday, saying artillery was used to protect U.S. personnel near the city of Erbil. (Screenshot)

VIDEO: U.S. launches first airstrike in Iraq

Ed Sykes · August 8, 2014 4:41 pm

President Obama pauses while speaking about H.R. 3230, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, Thursday at Fort Belvoir, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama authorizes limited airstrikes in Iraq: ‘We cannot turn a blind eye’

Susan Crabtree · August 8, 2014 3:47 am

Displaced Iraqi Christians settle at St. Joseph Church in Irbil, northern Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Late Wednesday, militants overran a cluster of predominantly Christian villages alongside the country's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, sending tens of thousands of civilians and Kurdish fighters fleeing from the area, several priests in northern Iraq said Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

U.S. military air-drops relief supplies in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · August 8, 2014 3:39 am

Kids Featured in Hamas Rally Amid Ceasefire

Michael Warren · August 7, 2014 6:11 pm

Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods

Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods

SAMEER N. YACOUBSINAN SALAHEDDIN · August 6, 2014 7:26 pm

Why the Pentagon is keeping a close watch on the U.S.-Africa summit

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Why the Pentagon is keeping a close watch on the U.S.-Africa summit

Susan Crabtree · August 6, 2014 1:40 pm

Afghan soldier kills US general, wounds about 15

Afghan soldier kills US general, wounds about 15

faiezlolita-baldor, robert-burnsrahim · August 6, 2014 12:23 am

This undated handout photo provided by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) shows the a box a redacted files with names of suspected terrorists. Decades ago, names of suspected terrorists were kept in a rolodex and in notebooks, according to redacted government photographs. The Associated Press has learned that a U.S. government database of known or suspected terrorists doubled in size in recent years. The National Counterterrorism Center says there were 1.1 million people in the database at the end of 2013. Of those, 25,000 are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. There were about 550,000 people in the database in March 2010. The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, called "TIDE," is a huge, classified database of people who are known to be terrorists, are suspected of having ties to terrorism, or in some cases related to or are associates of known or suspected terrorists. It feeds to smaller lists that restrict peoples' abilities to travel on commercial airlines to or within the U.S. (AP Photo/NCTC)

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US terrorism database doubles in recent years

Eileen Sullivan · August 5, 2014 9:40 pm

Lebanese army soldiers flash victory signs while in an armored personnel carrier as reinforcements arrive to the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese army agrees to 24-hour truce in town

Bassem Mroue · August 5, 2014 5:19 pm

In this photo provided by Nick Arnold, a military fighter jet is seen near a passenger jet as it comes in to land at Manchester airport, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after Qatar Airways Flight 23 landed with a military fighter escort at Britain's Manchester Airport. (AP Photo/Nick Arnold)

UK: Man arrested on suspicion of bomb hoax

Danica Kirka · August 5, 2014 3:59 pm