Author’s note: It now looks like the subject of this column, the "top al-Qaeda commander" arrested in Pakistan, is not Adam Gadahn: CBS News is reporting that the original story was "false." Instead, the man arrested has been tentatively identified as Abu Yahya...
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. He has been worrying aloud that Israel will mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran. This is of particular concern because Mullen has had...
Civil liberties advocates and U.S. constitutional law scholars lost no time in condemning proposed legislation introduced in the Senate Thursday that would hand the government the power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without charge and to conduct trials...
SILWAN, East Jerusalem - Outside the Bedouin-style protest tent in the heart of this Palestinian neighborhood, the anger is palpable, but controlled. Muhammad (surname undisclosed) turns to an Israeli TV reporter: "Would you agree to have your neighbor’s house...
Thursday's vote by a Congressional committee condemning the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as "genocide" is almost certain to complicate U.S. ties with Turkey, a long-time strategic ally and increasingly influential player in the...
