US JUDGE REJECTS SAUDI BID TO DROP 9/11 LAWSUITS

The act, which was passed by Congress in 2016, allows charges against Saudi Arabia to go ahead after they were previously rejected in court... READ MORE›

TRUMP'S MILITARY PARADE COULD COST TAXPAYERS UP TO $30 MILLION

President Trump's dream of a massive, Bastille Day-style military parade could cost taxpayers up to 30 million, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday... READ MORE›

NAVY SEAL WHO SAYS HE KILLED BIN LADEN CALLS TRUMPS PARADE THIRD WORLD BULL

Retired Navy Seal who says he killed Bin Laden calls Trump's military parade 'third world bulls '... READ MORE›

SEAL TEAM 6 MEMBER INVOLVED IN BIN LADEN'S DEATH CALLS TRUMP MILITARY PARADE 'THIRD WORLD BULLSHIT'

U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron watch the Bastille Day military parade in Paris, France, July 14, 2017... READ MORE›

NAVY SEAL WHO KILLED BIN LADEN SLAMS TRUMP'S MILITARY PARADE

"A military parade is third world bulls-t," Robert O'Neill wrote Thursday on Twitter... READ MORE›

ALLEGED BIN LADEN CRONY CHARGED WITH CONSPIRING TO KILL AMERICANS

Ganczarski gave technical support to al Qaeda by providing them with hardware such as computers and radios, according to prosecutors... READ MORE›

AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL IN AFGHANISTAN

The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... READ MORE›

CIA CASH ENDED UP IN COFFERS OF AL QAEDA

The letters about the 2010 ransom were included in correspondence between Bin Laden and Mr... READ MORE›

A senior Taliban commander in the Pakistani city of Quetta said that 12 years of incarceration had also caused some psychological problems for Noori and Fazl... READ MORE›

POSSIBLE U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL; AT LEAST 9 DEAD

Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›

BOTCHED SEAL MISSION PLANNED UNDER OBAMA, BUT LEFT TO TRUMP

About 30 people, including 10 women and children, also were killed, according to media reports... READ MORE›

AFGHAN ISIS BRANCH MAKES INROADS IN BATTLE AGAINST TALIBAN

He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›

AFGHAN CRISIS GROWS AS PUSH TO RETAKE KUNDUZ FALTERS

Officials and local elders in Kunduz said they had yet to see all but a few of the promised government reinforcements... READ MORE›

DRAMATIC TALIBAN HOSTAGE RESCUE EARNS NAVY SEAL THE MEDAL OF HONOR

Edward Carl Byers Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Otsego High School in the small town of Tontogany, Ohio, in 1997... READ MORE›

CIA DOCUMENTS OFFER INSIGHT INTO OSAMA BIN LADEN'S MIND

Bin Laden suggested that al-Qaeda could speed things up Yemen by assassinating the Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who later was deposed... READ MORE›

HOW TERRORISM IN THE WEST COMPARES TO TERRORISM EVERYWHERE ELSE

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing at least 130 people in a string of terrorist attacks Friday in Paris... READ MORE›

DOZENS OF STUDENTS KILLED IN PAKISTANI TALIBAN ATTACK ON PESHAWAR SCHOOL

Pakistani soldiers transport rescued school children from the site of an attack by Taliban... READ MORE›

19 KILLED AFTER AFGHAN HOSPITAL HIT IN SUSPECTED U.S. AIRSTRIKE

The Doctors Without Borders hospital is the only such facility in northeastern Afghanistan, providing free care to all based on medical needs... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL ATTACK LIVE: TALIBAN KILL AT LEAST 84 CHILDREN IN 'HORRIFYING' MASSACRE

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in revenge for an anti-terrorist military offensive... READ MORE›

US GENERAL SAYS AFGHANS REQUESTED STRIKE

There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... READ MORE›

AFGHAN MILITIAS INSPIRE FEAR IN VILLAGES

In Ghazni Province, the drive to create anti-Taliban militias gained momentum after a series of anti-Taliban uprisings in 2012 emerged in areas once considered lost... READ MORE›

TAKING HOLD IN KUNDUZ AFGHANISTAN NEW TALIBAN ECHOED THE OLD

Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... READ MORE›

AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES STRUGGLE JUST TO MAINTAIN STALEMATE

But by one important measure, Lieutenant Javed and the other soldiers in the district are succeeding The Taliban flag does not yet fly over Musa Qala... READ MORE›

PAKISTAN SCHOOL ATTACK 132 TALIBAN HOSTAGES FEARED DEAD

26 Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban, has condemned the atrocious and cowardly attack on a school in Pakistan... READ MORE›

BY EVENING, A HOSPITAL. BY MORNING, A WAR ZONE.

Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... READ MORE›

TALIBAN PRESENT GENTLER FACE BUT WIELD IRON FIST IN AFGHAN DISTRICT

But in most ways, the social restrictions that made the Taliban international pariahs during their reign have been resurrected in full in Baghran... READ MORE›

PUNISHING 16 PENTAGON SAYS MISTAKES LED TO HOSPITAL ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN

His statement directly contradicted the claim by many senior Afghan officials that the hospital was being used by Taliban fighters and was therefore a legitimate target... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: IN TURF WAR WITH AFGHAN TALIBAN, ISLAMIC STATE LOYALISTS GAIN GROUND

IS supporters have proved ruthless, reportedly beheading several Taliban commanders, and IS' success in taking over swathes of Iraq and Syria underlines the risks to Afghanistan... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN VIOLENCE: DEADLY SUICIDE BOMB HITS KABUL

At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say... READ MORE›

A YOUNG MAN IS SKINNED ALIVE. A SIGN OF NEW TALIBAN BRUTALITY?

They note that violence in Afghanistan escalated last summer after it was announced that the Taliban's other former leader, Mohammad Omar, had died two years earlier... READ MORE›

CIA RELEASES BIN LADEN DIARY AND VIDEOS

Bin Laden's computer was taken during the 2011 US raid in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in which he died... READ MORE›

UK BOMB PLOT SUSPECT ABID NASEER FOUND GUILTY

Abid Naseer, 28, was found guilty by a New York jury of providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiracy to use a destructive device... READ MORE›

AFGHAN TALIBAN KILL DOZENS AT KANDAHAR AIRPORT

Dozens of people have been killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified civilian and military airfield in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar... READ MORE›

ROB O'NEILL: US NAVY SEAL WHO SHOT OSAMA BIN LADEN REVEALED

The identity of a US Navy Seal who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 has been revealed as Rob ONeill... READ MORE›

ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS

Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›

US SOLDIERS 'TOLD TO IGNORE AFGHAN SOLDIERS WHO SEXUALLY ABUSE BOYS'

US soldiers say they're ordered to ignore Afghan soldiers who sexually abuse young boys... READ MORE›