Al-Qaida Arm In Yemen Flexes Its Muscles In Nigeria
An unusual terrorism case started in Nigeria late last week. Prosecutors in the capital city of Abuja accused two local men of being members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. They were...
View ArticleAl-Qaida: Now Vying For Hearts, Minds And Land
Al-Qaida has been subtly testing a new strategy. In the past couple of years, the group's affiliates have been trying their hand at governing — actually taking over territory and then trying to win...
View ArticleSikh Temple Shooter Died Of Self-Inflicted Wound
The FBI has revealed some new details in the case of the man who opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Wade Michael Page killed six people and wounded three others. Page died at the scene from a...
View ArticleTaliban Showing New Willingness On Prisoner Swap
There are new glimmers of hope for the only known U.S. prisoner of war held captive in Afghanistan — 26-year-old Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban more than three years ago....
View ArticlePercent Of Detainees Who Return To Terrorism After Release Edges Up
Almost 28 percent of the detainees transferred out of the U.S.-run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have either returned to terrorism or are suspected of having done so, the Director of...
View ArticleOfficial Versions Diverge Over U.S. Consulate Attack
The attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya last week has led to dueling versions of what unfolded that night in Benghazi.To hear the Obama administration tell it, the attack that killed Ambassador J....
View ArticleBenghazi Attack Raises New Questions About Al-Qaida
For the past decade, al-Qaida has been a top-down organization.Letters seized at Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan showed that he was a hands-on manager, approving everything from operations to...
View ArticleU.S. Drones Navigate Murky Legal Path In Pakistan
The U.S. has been carrying out drone strikes in Pakistan for some eight years, but it's done so under a policy that has emerged piecemeal over that time."It started in 2004, when drones were really an...
View ArticlePredicting The Future: Fantasy Or A Good Algorithm?
After failing to predict the Arab Spring, intelligence officials are now exploring whether Big Data, the combing of billions of pieces of disparate electronic information, can help them identify hot...
View ArticleCourt Overturns Conviction Of Bin Laden Driver
A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. If the name sounds familiar, it should.
View ArticleMan Arrested In Plot To Blow Up NY Federal Reserve
A man has been arrested in an alleged terror plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City. Federal authorities and the New York Police Department collaborated to foil the plot...
View ArticleMinnesota Case Re-Opens Wounds Among Somalis
For nearly three weeks, the benches at the back of a federal courtroom in Minneapolis were filled with local Somalis.
View ArticleAs Jihadists Spread, Connecting The Dots Proves Hard
More than a year after popular protests rocked the Arab world, U.S. intelligence officials are struggling to understand the myriad of Islamist groups that have filled the vacuum.Those groups run the...
View ArticleRecovery To Take 'Quite A Long Time' In Storm-Ravaged Breezy Point
Anyone who traveled to Breezy Point, Queens, in New York City in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, even as recently as a few of days ago, would have needed an SUV — its main thoroughfare was under 3...
View ArticleGunmen In Pakistan Target Polio Vaccinators
Gunmen shot dead five Pakistani women and one man working on a U.N.-backed polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan. The attacks happened in two different cities. Taliban leaders have previously said the...
View ArticleIn Pakistan, Tax Evaders Are Everywhere — Government Included
Tax evasion is a chronic problem in Pakistan — only about 2 percent of the population is registered in the tax system, and the government collects just 9 percent of the country's wealth in taxes, one...
View ArticleMultiple Feuds Bring A Record Year Of Violence To Karachi
The sad truth about Karachi in 2012 was that whatever your religion, business affiliation, or political party, someone was willing to kill you for it.The murder rate in Pakistan's largest city and...
View ArticlePakistan's 'Patriot Act' Could Target Politicians
Earlier this month, Pakistan's powerful Lower House of Parliament passed what analysts have dubbed Pakistan's Patriot Act. Its name here is "Investigation for Fair Trial Bill."It has been presented to...
View ArticleThe Tony Soprano of Karachi: Gangster Or Politician?
Gangsters have been part of life in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, for decades. And nowhere is their rule more notorious than in the slums of Lyari, a dusty warren of low-slung tenement houses in...
View ArticlePakistani Military Hopes Rehab Will Lead Men To Paralympics
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Over the past decade, more than 3,000 Pakistani soldiers have...
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