Why the USS Cole's Commander Pushed to Keep His Crew Together After Deadly Bombing Seventeen crew members were killed and dozens more hurt in the late-morning blast after explosives ripped a 40-by-40-foot...
Armed Group Linked to al-Qaida Sets Fuel Trucks Ablaze as It Blockades Imports to Mali A West African armed group affiliated to al-Qaida set fire to fuel tankers in Mali over the weekend, videos showed, as the...
Islamic State and al-Qaida Threat Is Intense in Africa, with Growing Risks in Syria, UN Experts Say The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are...
Yemen's Al-Qaida Branch Leader Threatens Trump, Musk and Others The leader of al-Qaida's Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the...
The Real Military History Behind the New Iraq War Film 'Warfare' The film, based on director and retired Special Warfare Operator First Class Ray Mendoza's real-world experience in the Iraq...
The Only Al-Qaida Operative to Infiltrate the Army's Special Forces One might think that betraying both the world's most notorious terrorism group and the West's most well-funded intelligence...
'Race Against Terror': CNN's Jake Tapper Details the Extraordinary Investigation into an Al-Qaida Fighter's Murder of US Troops in Combat The case was essentially a murder investigation. The suspect was in custody, and he'd even admitted to the killings; all...
Netflix's Newest 'American Manhunt' Chronicles the Search to Bring Osama bin Laden to Justice On May 2, 2011, teams of U.S. Navy SEALs landed in and around a compound in Abbottabad, deep inside Pakistan. Their mission...
The Best Iraq War Movies, Ranked Looking back at almost 20 years of Iraq War movies, the first thought that comes to mind is that Iraq War movies aren't...
The Pentagon Chief Loses Bid to Reject 9/11 Plea Deals A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to throw out the plea deals reached for...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...