FBI announces charges against al-Shabaab recruiters

The FBI and Justice Department announced charges Monday against eight people, the latest effort by the U.S. government to dismantle a terror recruitment ring that has sent dozens of Somali American youths to join an extremist Islamic insurgency in Somalia, officials said.

Appointments

Rep. Reyes not under investigation, House panel says

The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has said it is not investigating Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was the subject of a complaint last year involving contact between his office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Arrests in Chicago drive home global nature of terrorism threat

CHICAGO -- David C. Headley, a peripatetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill two Danish journalists, was not always David C. Headley.

In Fort Hood aftermath, Pentagon opens two reviews

The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of service members who pose a threat to their fellow troops.

Holder answers to 9/11 relatives about trying terrorism suspects in U.S.

After enduring four hours of hostile questions in a crowded Capitol Hill hearing room about his decision to send the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes to Manhattan for trial, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. submitted himself to one more round of interrogation Wednesday.

Pakistani nuclear scientist said to affirm Post article's accuracy

A leading Pakistani newspaper said Wednesday that the former director of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear program had affirmed a recent account in The Washington Post of the country's nuclear dealings with China, saying the account was accurately based on a letter that Abdul Qadeer Khan said he sent to his wife.

Hasan's ties to radical imam raise questions of ‘self-radicalization'

Three weeks before Maj. Nidal M. Hasan purchased the semiautomatic pistol allegedly used in the Fort Hood attack, a radical Yemeni American cleric whom he frequently e-mailed gave a broad religious blessing to Muslims who attack "government armies in the Muslim world."

Obama pushes China on currency, human rights

BEIJING -- Describing ties with China as "never more important to our collective future," President Obama on Tuesday mixed praise for Chinese economic triumphs with gentle prodding on its currency, human rights and Tibet.

U.N. seeks assurances that Iran has no other hidden nuclear sites

U.N. nuclear experts who last month were granted a first look at Iran's newly disclosed uranium processing site have acknowledged in a confidential report that the visit raised questions about whether other secret installations exist in the country.

Fine Print: Settling a CIA-DNI turf war

For those of you who believe the only thing the CIA leadership has to do is provide all-source intelligence analyses to President Obama and his top policymakers, think again. Besides two wars raging and the U.S. clandestine and covert operations abroad, the agency must carry out operations on the bureaucratic and legal fronts at home.

French and Afghan troops move to begin supply road in hostile area

TAGAB VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN -- Hundreds of French and Afghan troops on Sunday pushed into a hostile valley in eastern Afghanistan where militants launch quick attacks and then disappear into hillside villages. The mission: Secure the area for a planned bypass road around the Afghan capital to move supplies from neighboring Pakistan.