WASHINGTON, Lucile Malandain- Two weeks before the date set for Guantanamo's closure, the notorious prison for "war on terror" detainees remains open, and a pause in returning inmates to Yemen will...
WASHINGTON- The head of national intelligence on Friday named a former CIA director to lead a probe into US intelligence failures exposed by an Al-Qaeda attack on an airliner and a shooting rampage...
KABUL, Lynne O'Donnell - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, whose fragile government is propped up by more than 100,000 foreign troops, said Friday he does not need "the favour" of the...
WASHINGTON - Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Friday openly acknowledged that Jordan had a counter-terrorism role in Afghanistan and planned to enhance operations there.
Jordan's...
WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson - US President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" over huge intelligence flaws exposed by an Al-Qaeda attack on a US jet and vowed sweeping and...
LONDON, Michael Thurston - Embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismissed as a "storm in a teacup" Thursday a new plot questioning his leadership, a few months before a general election....
WASHINGTON, Christophe Schmidt- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an impassioned appeal Wednesday for greater US international development aid, saying it was vital to US and global security...
LONDON - Southern Sudan could descend into a new war unless the world community takes action to salvage the peace accord that ended one of Africa's longest conflicts five years ago, aid agencies...
WASHINGTON - Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Jawdeh will meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here Friday, the Jordanian embassy said Wednesday, amid reports that a Jordanian was behind a...
WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson - An angry President Barack Obama warned Tuesday he would not tolerate failures by US spy agencies to connect the dots on intelligence that could have uncovered the...