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U.N.: Bombed Syrian facility had nuclear reactor features
A Syrian facility that Israel bombed last year had similarities to a nuclear reactor and chemically processed uranium particles were found at the site, but a final determination can't be made until Syria provides "the necessary transparency," a new U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency report out Wednesday says. | 11/19/08 18:38:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
IAEA: Bombed Syrian site had features like a nuclear reactor
The Syrian facility bombed last year by Israel had features similar to a nuclear reactor and chemically processed uranium particles were found at the site, but a full assessment cannot be done until Syria provides "the necessary transparency," a new U.N. International Atomic Agency report said Wednesday. | 11/19/08 00:31:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Did U.S. push detention of American without charges?
The case of Naji Hamdan, coupled with FBI interrogations of an American citizen secretly detained without charges in East Africa, raises the question of whether the Bush administration has asked other nations to hold Americans suspected of terrorism links whom U.S. officials lack the evidence to charge. That allegation is central to a lawsuit to be filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington. | 11/17/08 20:22:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Why hasn't the U.S. gone after Mullah Omar in Pakistan?
For seven years, the Bush administration has pursued al Qaida but done almost nothing to hunt down the Afghan Taliban leadership in its sanctuaries in Pakistan, and that's left Mullah Mohammad Omar and his deputies free to direct an escalating war against the U.S.-backed Afghan government. The administration's decision, U.S. and NATO officials said, has allowed the Taliban to regroup, rearm and recruit. | 11/16/08 06:00:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Obama faces an unsettled world on taking office
In 74 days, President Barack Obama will assume responsibility for guiding the nation out of two wars and through a daunting array of real and potential global crises. He's likely to benefit from initial goodwill across much of the planet, where there's profound relief that the Bush years are ending. Still, he faces what may be the most unsettled global scene since the 1930s and '40s. | 11/05/08 19:26:00 By - Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Another success? Iraqi mayor Bush once hailed flees to U.S.
Two years ago, President Bush hailed Najim al Jabouri as a symbol of success in the battle to curb Iraq's sectarian violence. Today, Jabouri is a symbol of how uncertain that success is. Last month, Jabouri quietly left Tal Afar, the ancient city near Iraq's desert border with Syria where he was the police chief and the mayor, collected his wife and four children and flew to safety in the United States. | 10/30/08 16:55:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
CIA led mystery Syria raid that killed terrorist leader
A CIA-led raid on a compound in eastern Syria killed an al Qaida in Iraq commander who oversaw the smuggling into Iraq of foreign fighters whose attacks claimed thousands of Iraqi and American lives, three U.S. officials said Monday. The body of Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih, an Iraqi national who used the nom de guerre Abu Ghadiya, was flown out of Syria on a U.S. helicopter. | 10/27/08 13:58:01 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef
Terrorism: For Obama and McCain, split begins with Iraq
When it comes to fighting terrorism, John McCain and Barack Obama share some common ground. Both promise to intensify cooperation with other nations, boost U.S. intelligence-gathering and bolster homeland defenses. There also are profound differences in their approaches, however, beginning with Iraq. | 10/22/08 14:43:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
McCain evolved from reluctant warrior to interventionist
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain fixed his sights on Saddam Hussein long before President Bush sent the U.S. military to oust the Iraqi dictator in March 2003. | 10/19/08 06:00:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
New intelligence report says Pakistan is 'on the edge'
A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined with growing economic and political conflicts, is plunging America's key ally in the war on terror deeper into turmoil, says a soon-to-be completed U.S. intelligence assessment. One U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret document said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as "very bad." | 10/14/08 18:28:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott
Did U.S. government snoop on Americans' phone calls?
The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely eavesdropped on the private telephone calls of American military officers, journalists and aid workers. | 10/09/08 16:05:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
New U.S. intelligence report warns 'victory' not certain in Iraq
A nearly completed high-level U.S. intelligence analysis warns that unresolved ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq could unleash a new wave of violence, potentially reversing the major security and political gains achieved over the last year. | 10/07/08 17:15:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. Youssef
McCain misstated some facts in foreign-policy debate
John McCain and Barack Obama clashed repeatedly over foreign policy in their first presidential debate Friday night, crossing swords on Iran and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 09/27/08 00:22:00 By - Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
U.S., Pakistani forces exchange fire along the Afghan border
Pakistani forces Thursday fired at U.S. helicopters and traded shots with U.S. troops and Afghan police on the Afghan-Pakistan border in the latest blow to cooperation between Washington and Islamabad, U.S. officials said. Neither side reported casualties in the incident, which occurred when the helicopters crossed into the Pakistani tribal agency of North Waziristan, the Pakistan army said. | 09/25/08 19:32:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay
Where Obama and McCain stand on key foreign policy issues
Fundamental differences on foreign policy and national security separate John McCain and Barack Obama. Here’s where they stand on four major challenges the next president will face. | 09/25/08 18:10:07 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
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