U.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbor a visible American military presence. That balancing act has become an administration trademark, funneling millions of dollars in aid and low-profile... 

By BARBARA SURK BAGHDAD (AP) – Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded... 

HAWIJA, Iraq — Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents. While the Obama administration has dramatically reduced the number of troops and rebranded... 

By Fred Branfman “[General McChrystal says that] for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” – “The Runaway General,” Rolling Stone, 6/22/10 The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that that mass U.S. assassination on a scale unequaled in world history lies at the... 

By Greg Miller and Joshua Partlow The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai’s administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and former U.S. officials. The... 

This document is ridiculous. The CIA created al-Qaeda (1, 2, 3). Now, WikiLeaks reveals an allegedly leaked SECRET CIA document that perpetuates the boneheaded, mainstream al-Qaeda legend. The cave people are recruiting home grown American terrorists, don’tchaknow… Does CIA’s “Red Cell” know about OPERATION CYCLONE?... 

By Daniel Tencer Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday defended his decision to ban private security contractors from operating in public in Afghanistan, saying many of the organizations tasked with providing security are engaging in terrorist activities, working with “Mafia-like” organizations and “looting... 

(AP) Military supervisors must have access to soldiers’ personnel records and be aware of signs of potential workplace violence, the Defense Department said Friday in its final report on the Fort Hood shootings. The report addresses some government failures and other problems uncovered in the Pentagon investigation launched... 

By Mike Lillis More than half the country thinks history will judge the Iraq War to have been a mistake, according to the results of a survey released Friday. Fifty-three percent of respondents said the conflict will be deemed either a “total failure” or “mostly a failure” — roughly the same as the... 

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US troops will still be in combat and taking on Islamist militants in Iraq even as the American military moves to an “advise and assist” role with a smaller force, officials said Thursday. The withdrawal of the last US combat brigade on Thursday was hailed as a symbolic moment for the controversial... 

LOS ANGELES — American Civil Liberties Union lawyers filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the FBI, CIA and other federal intelligence agencies, accusing them of detaining and torturing an American citizen later convicted on terrorism charges in the United Arab Emirates. The lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Southern California seeks... 

The CIA possesses two videotapes of a Sept. 11 terror suspect being interrogated. That’s significant because dozens of tapes — including those showing waterboarding — were destroyed. These new videos apparently do not show anything that might be considered torture. Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press tells... 

By MARK THIESSEN (AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A rural Alaska couple accused of domestic terrorism compiled a hit list of 20 targets, including members of the military and media, and had moved to the operational phase of their plan, according to documents filed in federal court Monday. Paul and Nadia Rockwood of King Salmon have... 

By Maidhc Ó Cathail Who’s keeping the terror myth alive? So, if bin Laden is as dead as Elvis, who’s been faking all those scary threats in his name? Credit image: Sabbah Report In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated “evildoer”... 

Aaron Glantz Tucked into this massive Army report on suicide is an interesting fact: Since 2004, the number of soldiers going AWOL, deserting, and “missing movement” — that is failing to deploy when they’re supposed to — has gone up a shocking 234 percent. The Army includes this fact on page 92... 

(Reuters) – Total foreign military deaths in Afghanistan have passed 2,000 since the war began in late 2001, unofficial tallies showed on Sunday, in the approach to U.S. and Afghan elections and a U.S. strategy review. The U.S. military accounted for more than 60 percent of the deaths but the total still lags the list... 

At the height of the Iraq war, the Army routinely dismissed hundreds of soldiers for having a personality disorder when they were more likely suffering from the traumatic stresses of war, discharge data suggests. Under pressure from Congress and the public, the Army later acknowledged the problem and drastically cut the number... 

General David Petraeus said Sunday Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is “far buried” in the remote mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan but capturing the “iconic figure” remains a key task. “I don’t think anyone knows where Osama bin Laden is,” the head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan... 

Martin Chulov in Baghdad Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group by paying them more than the monthly salary they currently receive from the government, two key US-backed militia leaders have told the Guardian. They said al-Qaida leaders were... 

The Department of Homeland Security warned Metro about an unconfimed threat to the D.C. Metro system on Sunday. NBC4 obtained an internal memo from Homeland Security about the concern. Someone traveled to Turkey last July to obtain a U.S. visa to come to the States to blow up an unspecified Metro station, the memo said. “The...