Police: Man shot dead lunged at police officer, FBI agent
Police said they have video showing a man who was under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators lunging with a knife at a Boston police officer and an FBI agent before he was shot and killed — an account his brother has disputed.
Ex-Mountie hero of shooting at Canada’s Parliament
The standing ovation began even before Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers entered the Parliament chamber.
Canada’s prime minister says shooting rampage was terrorism
Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country.
Assad pursues withering campaign against rebels
Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking advantage of the U.S.-led coalition’s war.
Assad backs all efforts to fight terrorism
President Bashar Assad said Tuesday he supports any international effort against terrorism, apparently trying to position his government on the side of the U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.
GOP uses terror threat against Dems in campaign
The recurring image in the latest Republican campaign ads is a lone militant walking across a barren land with the black banner of the Islamic State group.
Report: Malaysian Flight 17 likely downed by outside impacts
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft,” causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine, a preliminary report into the deadly aviation disaster concluded today.
Even if attacked, airline could be liable in crash
Families of passengers who were on the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine are starting to sort through the long process of gaining compensation for their loss.
Dempsey: We will act if Islamic group threatens U.S.
Gen. Martin Dempsey said Sunday that once he determines the Islamic State militants in Iraq have become a direct threat to the U.S. homeland, he will recommend the U.S. military move directly against the group in Syria.
Experts reach Ukraine crash site
A team of several dozen international investigators descended today on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site in eastern Ukraine to begin combing an area now designated as a crime scene.
U.S. faces intel hurdles in downing of airliner
A series of unanswered questions about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shows the limits of U.S. intelligence gathering even when it is intensely focused, as it has been in Ukraine since Russia seized Crimea in March.
Rebels release train with bodies from downed Malaysian jet
Bowing to international pressure, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
U.S. outlines case against Russia on downed plane
Video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site. Imagery showing the firing. Calls claiming credit for the strike. Recordings said to reveal a cover-up at the crash site.
Credible probe sought in downing of Malaysian jet
World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane.
Without radar, missile may not have identified jet
If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said Saturday.
Ukraine: Pro-Russia rebels downed Malaysian plane
Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down a Malaysian jetliner with 298 people aboard, sharply escalating the crisis and threatening to draw both East and West deeper into the conflict. The rebels denied downing the aircraft.
NSA: No better way to protect than surveillance
The NSA chief said Wednesday he knows of no better way his agency can help protect the U.S. from foreign threats than with spy programs that collect billions of phone and Internet records from around the world.
NYPD designates mosques as terrorism organizations
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to
No mistaking how NSA story reporter feels
The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a UK-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste for intrusions on privacy.
Report: Gov’t wants Verizon phone records
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency currently is collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order,