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The highly contested provision, part of the National Defense Authorization Spending bill Act, was upheld after the Senate rejected an amendment on Tuesday that would have removed the detainee provision.

Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the security forces during a botched mission to free them after a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month.

Philippine police and the U.S. FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabia-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T Inc.'s system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.

The mother of an alleged al-Qaeda sympathizer, Jose Pimentel, who was planning an attack to kill United States military officials returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, expressed her apologies and was shocked and saddened about her son's arrest.

It was unclear what exact steps the Treasury planned for Iran but it seemed unlikely it would seek to cut off the Iranian financial sector entirely, a move that could disrupt the global energy markets and harm the U.S. economic recovery.

The ferry, named Kartepe, was reportedly carrying more than 20 passengers and six crew members.

Devices help researchers track spread of crop diseases.

Al-Qaida's current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, set up his boss Osama bin Laden to be killed, a former U.S. Navy SEAL says. The charge comes from the forthcoming book, Seal Target Geronimo, by Chuck Pfarrer.

American drone strikes in Pakistan have killed hundreds of innocent people, as a result of often having missed their target or hit the wrong one.

An Ethiopian court acquitted two Swedish journalists on Thursday of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks, but kept them in detention and said they must still answer allegations they had assisted the secessionist ONLF rebel group.

He added that Europeans who donate money to PKK share in the responsibility for the killings of innocent civilians.

The Department of Homeland Security placed PSAs on Hotel TVs across America on Nov. 1, part of its ongoing campaign If you see something, say something.

The attack, which Turkish authorities believe was carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), occurred in the province of Osmaniye.

A Kenyan man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a grenade attack on a Nairobi bus station and being a member of the Somali rebel group al Shabaab, which Kenyan forces are pursuing in a cross-border operation.

Tensions rise between the U.S. and Syria as diplomats are called home.

In a taped audio recording, Campbell boasted of how easy it would to carry out a terrorist attack upon London.

The United States, in perhaps its strongest language since the war on terrorism started 10 years ago, warned Pakistan that it would face serious consequences if it continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that kill Americans.

Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has alleged that a 12-year-old Christian girl was abducted and gang raped for 8 months in Pakistan, and was tortured until she consented to convert to Islam.

U.S. officials indicated that the Iranian operatives as well as members of Hezbollah were transported across the Middle East by Mahan.

The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb in his underwear to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to all charges against him and warned the United States could face a great calamity.

The two men as Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen with dual Iranian and U.S. passports, and Gholam Shakuri, reportedly a member of the Quds Force.