Mark Mazzetti Nyt News Service

The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Security Council, appears to have been on the payroll for many years, acco...

A Yemeni man implicated in the September 11 attacks was secretly detained in Morocco after Central Intelligence Agency operatives took him there in 2002, officials said on Tuesday.While the man, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, was detained in a prison near Rabat, Moroccan officials videotaped several of his interrogation sessions and gave the recordings to the...

The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Pet...

Dennis C. Blair, whose often tumultuous tenure as director of national intelligence was marked by frequent clashes with White House officials and other spy chiefs in America's still fractured intelligence apparatus, announced on Thursday that he was resigning. His exit after little more than a year comes as the White House is facing thorny dec...

Faisal Shahzad, was inspired by the violent rhetoric of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric whose militant online lectures have been a catalyst for several recent attacks and plots.

Federal agents and police detectives have arrested a Connecticut man, Faisal Shahzad, in connection with Saturday's failed Times Square car bombing, two people briefed on the investigation said.

Defense Secretary Robert M Gates has opened an inquiry into whether a top Defense Department official violated Pentagon rules by setting up a network of private contractors to gather intelligence in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

America's top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al-Qaida and its affiliates would attempt a large-scale attack on US soil within the next six months.

The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Security Council, appears to have been on the payroll for many years, acco...

A Yemeni man implicated in the September 11 attacks was secretly detained in Morocco after Central Intelligence Agency operatives took him there in 2002, officials said on Tuesday.While the man, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, was detained in a prison near Rabat, Moroccan officials videotaped several of his interrogation sessions and gave the recordings to the...

The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Pet...

Dennis C. Blair, whose often tumultuous tenure as director of national intelligence was marked by frequent clashes with White House officials and other spy chiefs in America's still fractured intelligence apparatus, announced on Thursday that he was resigning. His exit after little more than a year comes as the White House is facing thorny dec...

Faisal Shahzad, was inspired by the violent rhetoric of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric whose militant online lectures have been a catalyst for several recent attacks and plots.

Federal agents and police detectives have arrested a Connecticut man, Faisal Shahzad, in connection with Saturday's failed Times Square car bombing, two people briefed on the investigation said.

Defense Secretary Robert M Gates has opened an inquiry into whether a top Defense Department official violated Pentagon rules by setting up a network of private contractors to gather intelligence in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

America's top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al-Qaida and its affiliates would attempt a large-scale attack on US soil within the next six months.