The military campaign in Afghanistan has now led to more British deaths than the war in Iraq. BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt looks at the campaign so far. British forces have been in Afghanistan since 2001, first in alliance with US ...Read More
WASHINGTON – In a series of testy exchanges, Republican senators confronted Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday over his decision to try the Sept. 11 terrorism suspects in civilian court. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, expressed certainty that the suspects would be ...Read More
Attorney General Eric Holder, declaring "I know that we are at war," delivered a point-by-point rebuttal Wednesday to critics who say his decision to send professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators to New York for trial ...Read More
The government's plan to put Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks on trial in Manhattan is a bad idea, Gov. Paterson said today. "This is not a decision that I would have made," Paterson said ...Read More
As of Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, at least 839 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - The alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks will be tried as terrorists and criminals in a federal court in New York, the Obama administration will announce today.
Five men, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, have been held for ...Read More
A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights. In the ruling Thursday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision. It barred Plame from revealing the length ...Read More
One year after hitting bottom in the aftermath of President Obama's election, Republicans have taken their first concrete steps toward recovery. But they remain an embattled and divided force, facing an electorate still skeptical about their capacity to govern and ...Read More
As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 833 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department ...Read More
Some 230 British troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001
Gordon Brown has insisted that the UK "cannot, must not and will not walk away" from its mission in Afghanistan.
He spoke days after five British soldiers were killed in ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- After an emotional debate over how to keep Americans safe, the Senate Thursday narrowly defeated an effort to prevent civilian trials in U.S. courts for the accused planners of the 9/11 attacks. The Senate's 54-45 vote to reject the ...Read More
HARTFORD, Conn.—While Ned Lamont's entry into Connecticut's governor's race has created a stir, some question whether the businessman can generate the same enthusiasm that he did in 2006 when he challenged Sen. Joe Lieberman. Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of ...Read More
-- As of Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at least 833 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The ...Read More
A Canadian engineer cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New York a year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The judges of the 2nd U.S. ...Read More
-- As of Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, at least 831 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The ...Read More
First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, will attend Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday and participate in pregame ceremonies at Yankee Stadium. The First Lady and Dr. Biden will ...Read More
TOLEDO, Ohio—One of three men convicted of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq told a federal judge Tuesday that prosecutors twisted his words and wrongly painted him as a terrorist. Mohammad Amawi said he was ...Read More
-- As of Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, at least 796 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The ...Read More
The Obama administration, which would seem to have its hands full with a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan, opened up a third front last week, this time with Fox News.
Until this point, the conflict had been mostly a one-sided ...Read More
"Frontline" checks in tonight with a gloomy assessment of the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and an equally pessimistic view of whether the U.S. can prod/seduce/jawbone/bribe the Pakistani government into truly confronting Al Qaeda forces in its border region.
In ...Read More
In the puzzling (and for PBS, weirdly coincidental) wake of the American president's Nobel Peace Prize last week, "Frontline" begins its 27th season Tuesday with "Obama's War." It is a frank and even fatalistic primer on the buildup to a ...Read More
