CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Pakistan Imprisons Doctor Who Helped CIA Find Osama Bin Laden

Eritrea's government denounces the U.S. C.I.A. and its outlawed opposition groups for spreading 'lies' that claim President Isaias Afwerki is dead.

In an effort to expand its campaign of covert drone strikes in Yemen, the Central Intelligence Agency has asked for the authority to target suspected terrorists without needing to establish their identity first.

In the Obama administration's latest effort to punish government officials who leak information to the press, the Justice Department has indicted a former Central Intelligence Agency officer for allegedly telling journalists details of counterterrorism operations.

Wednesday's high-level meeting was the first bilateral military visit since a cross-border attack by NATO helicopters last November killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Pakistan to re-evaluate its level of cooperation with Western forces in Afghanistan.

Despite Washington officials offering a series of key concessions -- including giving Pakistan intelligence pre-warning for any strikes -- Islamabad has flatly rejected all offers, leaving already stretching already strained U.S.-Pakistan relations.

The most significant legacy of the coup was the blowback the U.S. suffered in Iran.

Documents obtained by U.S. Special Forces reveal the terrorist leader believed the U.S. would be drawn into a crisis and be ripe for attack if the presidency transferred to Vice President Joe Biden.

The Central Asian nation's natural gas production has plummeted during decades of conflict, to about 1 billion cubic feet per year as of 2009. But underground there could be vast stockpiles of gas as well as oil, potentially satisfying Afghanistan's energy needs for years.

U.S. and UK intelligence officers had their fingerprints all over this forced “regime change” in Iran.

The Supreme Court said the prior verdict was “not complete” and Hekmati, 28, will now be granted a new trial.

Following the controversial release of over five million private emails by online anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, global intelligence company Stratfor undoubtedly has some explaining to do. The emails reveal all sorts of information including details regarding sources, operations and miscellaneous gossip. But, perhaps most peculiar is one specific document circulated among employees in 2007. The document, titled The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms.

Amid UN nuclear inspectors' findings that Iran has accelerated its enrichment of uranium, the U.S. intelligence community maintains that no hard evidence exists that Tehran has decided to build a nuclear weapon, according to current and former American officials interviewed by the New York Times.

New York City Police Department officers ventured out of their jurisdiction to monitor Muslims in Long Island and in Newark, New Jersey as part of a sweeping program to monitor and gather information on Muslims, the Associated Press reported.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.

The site went offline since Friday night even as Anonymous posted messages on its Twitter page claiming that the URL was hacked.

The Washington Post reports that the CIA has plans to maintain a robust operation in both countries after conventional operations have wound down, underscoring the military's broader shift towards clandestine, targeted operations undertaken by CIA agents or Special Forces commandos.

Lawyers for a U.S. Marine court-martialed for his role in killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha slammed the international hacking collective Anonymous as cowards on Monday after they knocked out the firm's website and published internal e-mails on the web.

Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking.

U.S. Navy seals assassinated the al-Qaeda chieftain last May in a spectacular raid in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, near the capital of Islamabad.

Oshkosh Corp. shareholders handed a defeat to activist investor Carl Icahn on Friday, electing at least 12 of the 13 management-backed nominees to the company's board.