MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Sep. 8, 2008 (Reuters) Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed at least six people on Monday in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, witnesses said. ... > full story
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Sep. 5, 2008 (Reuters) At least five people were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, in a stepped up campaign against militants near the Afghan border. ... > full story
WARSAW, Sep. 5, 2008 (Reuters) The Polish prosecutor's office is investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser said on Friday. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Sep. 4, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. commandos attacked an al Qaeda target in Pakistan this week in an operation that could signal more intense American efforts to thwart militant attacks in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Thursday. ... > full story
ORLANDO, Florida, Sep. 4, 2008 (Reuters) Sen. Barack Obama got his first intelligence briefing as the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate this week and spy agencies are ready to do the same for Republican rival Sen. John McCain, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Sep. 3, 2008 (Reuters) A retired professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee was convicted on Wednesday of violating U.S. arms export controls and passing sensitive data to a Chinese national, the U.S. Justice Department said. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Sep. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled top-secret notes on a domestic spying program and on the interrogation of terrorism suspects but will not be prosecuted, a Justice Department report said on Tuesday. ... > full story
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21, 2008 (Reuters) A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to rule on whether lawsuits seeking to target President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping are covered by secrecy laws or can be challenged in court. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2008 (Reuters) A U.S. firm pleaded guilty to illegally providing a Chinese national with data used in developing an unmanned aerial weapons system, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. ... > full story
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Rebuilding the armed forces Sep. 4, 2008 (Florida Today) According to the Congressional Research Service, Congress has approved a total of $859 billion for military operations since the 9/11 terrorist ...
German defense minister blasts anti-war poster Sep. 4, 2008 (International Herald Tribune) Germany's defense minister has condemned as an insult to the country's troops an anti-war poster that calls the death of a soldier in Afghanistan a ...
Russia's top diplomat to have shield talks in Poland Sep. 3, 2008 (Boston Globe) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to Poland next week for talks on a plan, opposed by Moscow, to station parts of the U.S. missile ...
Suspect in bus beheading described as hard working Aug. 4, 2008 (Boston Globe) A man who witnesses said stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized a fellow traveler on a Greyhound bus immigrated to Canada from China four years ago and ...