US spy agencies face a difficult task in tracking Takfiri extremists in Syria, as Washington lacks a robust network of informants and faces threats to its drone fleet, experts and former officials say.
A US F-15C fighter jet has crashed in a Virginia forest and it was unclear if the pilot ejected before the plane went down, officials say.
The United States is sharing intelligence data on ISIL radicals with Damascus through Iraqi and Russian channels, as Washington goes on with sending reconnaissance flights over Syria.
Having long cynically armed the Takfiri militants against the Syrian government, with a lot of those arms going to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), US authorities have changed their allies of convenience, reports say.
With the alleged brutal murder of American journalist James Wright Foley, a wave of anger and aggression across Western audiences has been generated. Upon that wave rides two objectives.
The United States may send another 300 troops to Iraq to provide additional security at American diplomatic installations, a senior US official says.
The FBI has told the parents of kidnapped US journalist James Foley that it believes video footage of his execution released by the so-called Islamic State militants is genuine, news gatherer GlobalPost says.
Usually August is back-to-school month, when kids pick up their shiny new books and head to class. But this time it looks a bit more like back-to-war. The war profiteers will be hatching new schemes to cash in on misery and you and I will be picking up the tab.
Satellites run by Google and other private companies may soon have the ability to capture images of a person’s face and other sensitive information if federal restrictions continue to loosen from lobbying.
The claim that 40,000 Yazidis have been trapped in Iraq’s Mount Sinjar is the pretext for US military intervention in Iraq, as set out by US President Barack Obama.
Thousands of people around the world have staged rallies to condemn Israeli military strikes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza enclave.
An internal US intelligence memo has warned against the release of a Senate report on CIA’s torture tactics in the interrogation of suspected terrorist from Muslim nations, insisting that the move could further inflame anti-American feelings in the Mideast and lead to potentially violent street protests and threats to US embassies and personnel.
Declassified documents from the 1970s suggest intelligence officials in the United States believe Israelis stole nuclear bomb-grade uranium enough for making several bombs as big as the one that US dropped in Japan.
Three in four Americans think history will judge the US wars on Iraq and Afghanistan as failures, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll which also shows that nearly the same percentage think it was right to pull US troops out of the two nations.
US President Barack Obama has made a rare acknowledgment about the official use of the so-called 'enhanced interrogation tactics' or torture by American authorities in the wake of the suspicious September 11, 2001 terrorist incidents near Washington and New York.
Israel is engaged in a systematic, cold blooded genocide against the people of Gaza, at the expense of US tax payers, says a political analyst who has visited Gaza twice as a member of a fact-finding mission.
Since 2001, the US has undertaken regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya; all 3 countries are now in chaos and extremists are more in control than ever.
The leaders of the United States, Germany, France, Britain and Italy agreed Monday on the need to impose new sanctions on Russia, the French presidency said.
The UN Security Council has called for "an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire" in the Israeli war on Gaza at an emergency meeting in New York.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed a draft Gaza ceasefire plan that calls for the opening of Gaza-Israel border crossings and ensuring "the economic livelihood" of Palestinians in the Strip, Israeli media outlets report.