U.S. needs to keep counterterror forces in Afghanistan, analysts say
The United States is negotiating its withdrawal from Afghanistan with the Taliban but after 18 years, several thousand U.S. personnel could remain to prevent the Islamic State group and al-Qaida from using the country as a base for staging global attacks. The negotiations aim to ...
The Taliban must ensure that Afghanistan does not become a sanctuary for extremists before the United States withdraws troops, the top U.S. general said Wednesday. "I'm not using the 'withdrawal' word right now," Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters ...
Osama bin Laden's son, Hamza, chosen heir to the leadership of al-Qaida, has been killed, U.S. media reported Wednesday citing American officials. NBC News said three U.S. officials had confirmed they had information of Hamza bin Laden's death, but gave no details of the place ...
Funeral scheduled for NYPD detective who fought for 9/11 fund
A funeral will be held Wednesday for a former New York City police detective who was a leader in the fight for the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Detective Luis Alvarez appeared with former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart last month to plead with Congress ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar says death threats increase, urges Trump not to encourage them
Rep. Ilhan Omar says she's faced increased death threats since President Donald Trump spread around a video that purports to show her being dismissive of the 2001 terrorist attacks. "This is endangering lives," she said, accusing Trump of fomenting right-wing extremism. "It has to ...
Shortly after 9/11, CIA considered potential truth serum Versed for terror suspects
Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks. After months of research, the agency decided that a drug called Versed, a sedative often prescribed to ...
U.S. 'war on terror' has killed 500,000 people, study estimates
About half a million people have died violently in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan due to the U.S. "war on terror" that was launched following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, according to a study released Thursday. The report, by Brown University's Watson Institute for International ...
9/11 survivor finds strength in helping 3/11 victims in Japan
An American survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York who reached out to the Tohoku region following the triple disaster in 2011 has for years fostered a unique bond with its people, finding the connection mutually beneficial in coping with ...
New York scientists use newly developed DNA tools to put names to unidentified 9/11 victims
New DNA analysis techniques are helping identify more victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, scientists in the office of New York City's chief medical examiner said Thursday. Although the death toll after two hijacked airliners crashed into the ...
Ex-Texas 911 operator jailed for hanging up on thousands of emergency calls
A former emergency operator in Texas was convicted of hanging up on thousands of 911 calls and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of probation, prosecutors said. Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty in Houston on Wednesday of systematically hanging up ...
9/11 victims' kin sue Saudi Arabia in Manhattan court over attacks
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 ...
Al-Qaida ranks join thousands in Egypt to mourn 'blind sheikh' convicted in deadly 1993 WTC blast
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 ...
