President-elect Barack Obama will learn the full “burdens of office” tomorrow when he receives his first top secret briefing from the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell.
McConnell will be accompanied by the CIA’s top intelligence …

The Black Hawk strike conveyed U.S. troops over the border from Iraq into Syria where they killed terrorist Abu Ghadiya. He was identified by the Treasury Department as “a high value al-Qaida commander in charge …

Update: Asylum was refused.
A son of Osama bin Laden who grabbed headlines by marrying a British woman last year has flown to Spain and requested asylum, the Spanish government said Tuesday.

In this file photo, Omar …

Saudi Arabia foiled a terror attack against the United States five years ago, a Saudi official said Sunday.
The official said the 2003 plot, which was first reported Sunday in Al-Watan newspaper, was one of 160 …

Khalid Habib, the al Qaeda figure believed to be organizing a new terror attack against the United States is dead.
The official says the U.S. now has evidence that Khalid Habib was killed in an unmanned …

DEVELOPING: U.S. military helicopters attacked an area along Syria’s border with Iraq Sunday, causing casualties, Syrian state TV and witnesses said. Syria said on Sunday unidentified helicopters attacked a Syrian border point with Iraq, causing …

Al Qaeda has shown no signs it plans to attack the United States during the presidential election, but the government must keep guard during the 2-1/2-month transition to a new president, Homeland Security Secretary Michael …

An Al-Qaeda linked website suggested in a message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a John McCain presidency.
The message, posted yesterday on the …

Americans are not the only ones caught up in this year’s presidential election. The nature of the race, having an African American and a woman on the major parties’ tickets, alongside two wars and an …

A missile attack from a U.S. drone aircraft is believed to have killed Khalid Habib, an Egyptian who is described by the CIA as the No. 4 in the Al-Qaida hierarchy, according to a former …