A settlement in a landmark lawsuit against two psychologists who helped design the CIA's harsh interrogation methods used in the war on terror marked the first time the agency or its private contractors have been held accountable for the program, legal experts said Thursday. The ...
The FBI has released photographs showing the devastation that faced first responders after al-Qaida crashed a passenger jet into the building on Sept. 11, 2001. Twenty-seven pictures from that day depict the crushed walls, blazing fires and eviscerated interiors of the seat of the U.S. ...
Hundreds of relatives of individuals killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have sued Saudi Arabia in U.S. court, seeking to take advantage of a law passed by Congress last year that allows victims of such attacks on U.S. soil to sue state sponsors. The ...
Thousands of mourners gathered in a small Egyptian town on Wednesday for the funeral of the Muslim cleric known as "the blind sheikh" who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York. Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was also convicted of ...
Seedlings from the only tree to survive the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, will be given to two U.S. communities and France, each the target of recent attacks. San Bernardino, the California city where a couple gunned down 14 people last December ...
President Barack Obama would veto a bill passed by both houses of Congress that would allow survivors and families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for damages, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday. "It's not ...
Former CIA Director James Woolsey, a vocal advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq who promoted allegations that Saddam Hussein harbored illegal weapons, will serve as a senior national security adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the campaign announced on Monday. Woolsey's hiring ...
The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Sunday, with victims' relatives reading their names and reflecting on a loss that still felt as immediate to them as it was indelible for the nation. This year's anniversary comes with the United States locked ...
An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several hours later, her campaign revealed she had been diagnosed ...
While 9/11 failed to bring America to its knees as al-Qaida hoped, it ushered in an era of instability, especially in the Middle East, that Islamic extremists have skilfully exploited, analysts say. By reacting with a doctrine of "Shock and Awe" and invading Iraq in ...
America commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Sunday with emotional services of remembrance in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania to honor those who perished in the world's deadliest terror strikes. On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaida operatives crashed four passenger jets, two into ...
The U.S. military has closed a maximum-security detention center at Guantanamo Bay, an official said Thursday, as the controversial prison's population continues to dwindle. Guantanamo's Camp 5 lockup, built in 2004 at a cost of $17 million, closed Aug. 19 and will be converted into ...
