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  • Obama Says Congress’s Benghazi Probe Is Political Circus

    Updated 1 hour, 49 minutes ago

    President Barack Obama said his administration made no attempt to cover up the involvement of terrorists in last year’s deadly attack on a U.S. outpost in Libya, dismissing a congressional inquiry as a “political circus.”

  • Secret U.S. Trawl of AP Calls Decried by Press Groups

    Media groups and government watchdogs said the U.S. Justice Department interfered with press freedom when it secretly collected telephone records from Associated Press reporters and editors over a two-month period last year.

  • Obama's War of Secrets Targets the AP

    I'm as skeptical as anyone over the press's tendency to reflexively invoke its First Amendment rights, especially when national security secrets are at stake. But it's hard to argue with AP.

  • Leaving Afghanistan Is a $7 Billion Moving Task for U.S.

    Updated 2 hours, 39 minutes ago

    The U.S. invaded Afghanistan more than 12 years ago with a contingent of special forces and Central Intelligence Agency officers, some of them on horseback, armed with laser pointers to direct air strikes against al-Qaeda and its Taliban hosts.

  • Turkey Arrests Nine in Deadly Bombings Blamed on Syria

    Turkish police arrested nine suspects in connection with an attack that killed 46 people in a town near the Syrian border, as the government blamed the twin car bombings on Turks with ties to Syrian intelligence.

  • Turkey Arrests Nine in Deadly Bombings Blamed on Syria

    Turkish police arrested nine suspects in connection with an attack that killed 46 people in a town near the Syrian border, which the government blamed on Turks with ties to Syrian intelligence.

  • Obama Administration Defends Changing Benghazi Account

    Obama administration officials insisted that the White House and State Department had a minor role in altering an erroneous account of a deadly attack on a U.S. compound in Libya last year, after internal e-mails surfaced indicating it was shaped by political concerns.

  • Cleric Qatada Will Go to Jordan If U.K. Adopts Trial Treaty

    Abu Qatada, the Islamic cleric the U.K. is trying to deport to Jordan on terror charges, will voluntarily return to his home country if the two governments adopt a treaty that guarantees him a fair trial.

  • Tunisian Tied to Accused Canada Rail Plotter Charged

    A Tunisian linked to the man accused of an al-Qaeda-supported plot to derail a Canadian passenger train was charged by the U.S. with visa fraud to facilitate an act of international terrorism.

  • Distress Call From Besieged Envoy Recounted to Congress

    The No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya was watching television at home in Tripoli the night of Sept. 11 when he missed a call from his boss, Ambassador Chris Stevens.

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