By Scott Shane The New York Times

By the time Mahmoud Jibril cleared customs at Le Bourget airport and sped into Paris, the U.S. secretary of state had been waiting for hours. But this was not a meeting Hillary Clinton could cancel. Their encounter could decide whether America was again going to war.

The onslaught of recruitment propaganda has multiplied the number of online enthusiasts for the Islamic State in the United States.

The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.

A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week -- assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of economic retaliation -- suggest that Iranian leaders are responding frantically, and with increasing unpredictability, to the tightening of sanctions by...

A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialised, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or atta...

On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis travelled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not levelled with the American public.

To a colourful group of Americans - the Washington terrorism expert, the veteran C.I.A. officer, the Republican operative, the Kansas City lawyer - the Libyan gambit last March looked like a rare business opportunity.

CIA interrogators questioned three wives of Osama bin Laden for the first time on Thursday, 10 days after they were taken by Pakistani security forces from the compound where the Al Qaeda leader was killed, an American official confirmed on Friday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to give any details about the duration of ...

By the time Mahmoud Jibril cleared customs at Le Bourget airport and sped into Paris, the U.S. secretary of state had been waiting for hours. But this was not a meeting Hillary Clinton could cancel. Their encounter could decide whether America was again going to war.

The onslaught of recruitment propaganda has multiplied the number of online enthusiasts for the Islamic State in the United States.

The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.

A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week -- assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of economic retaliation -- suggest that Iranian leaders are responding frantically, and with increasing unpredictability, to the tightening of sanctions by...

A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialised, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or atta...

On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis travelled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not levelled with the American public.

To a colourful group of Americans - the Washington terrorism expert, the veteran C.I.A. officer, the Republican operative, the Kansas City lawyer - the Libyan gambit last March looked like a rare business opportunity.

CIA interrogators questioned three wives of Osama bin Laden for the first time on Thursday, 10 days after they were taken by Pakistani security forces from the compound where the Al Qaeda leader was killed, an American official confirmed on Friday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to give any details about the duration of ...