NYU library acquires the papers of Philip Agee, renegade spy

The private papers of Philip Agee, the disaffected CIA operative whose unauthorized publication of agency secrets 35 years ago was arguably more damaging than anything WikiLeaks has produced, have been obtained by New York University, which plans to make them public next spring.

U.S. operations in Kandahar push out Taliban

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - With 2,000-pound bombs, 12,000 troops, and one illiterate but charismatic Afghan border police commander, the American military has forced insurgents to retreat from key parts of this strategically vital region, according to U.S. and Afghan commanders.

Federal contractors must navigate workplace mediation without roadmap

As the U.S. government's use of contract workers rises, agencies ranging from the Defense Department to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy are finding they have to deal with more complex questions of defining a person's work status as a contractor versus a federal...

Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details

A massive cache of secret U.S. field reports from the Iraq war provides grim new details about the toll of that conflict, indicating that more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed during a six-year stretch and that American forces often failed to intervene as the U.S.-backed government brutalized deta...

Systemic failures led to suicide attack, CIA says

The CIA was cautioned last year that a self-proclaimed al-Qaeda turncoat might be luring the agency into an ambush, a warning that came weeks before the man killed seven agency operatives in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, an internal investigation has found.

Shots fired at Pentagon building; officials search for clues

Authorities searched Tuesday for a gunman who fired shots at the Pentagon in the early morning, possibly using a high-powered rifle. No one was injured.

Story of B-53 'bunker buster' is a lesson in managing nuclear weapons

Scout in Mumbai attacks was DEA informant while in terror camp, authorities say

Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley , the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks , was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant while training with terrorists in Pakistan.

Before '08 Mumbai attacks, U.S. was warned key figure in plot had terror ties

Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack.

Pakistan's judiciary threatens government stability

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - After this country's then-military dictator deposed the Supreme Court chief justice in 2007, a boisterous movement of protesting lawyers took to the streets and ushered in the return of democracy. Now that same court may be poised to bring about a premature end to Pakistan'...

Senate report: Mismanaged U.S. contractor money aids enemy in Afghanistan

The U.S. military has only minimal knowledge of - and exercises virtually no control over - the thousands of Afghans it indirectly pays to guard its installations, including "warlords and strongmen linked to murder, kidnapping, bribery" and to the Taliban, Senate investigators said in a blisterin...