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    Pentagon fuels fears that legal powers will yield 'forever war' with al Qaeda

    The man who leads the Pentagon's secret war against al Qaeda and its allies believes it is likely to last another decade or two, and that the current legal basis for it provided by Congress in 2001 continues to be sound, despite the changing character of the enemy.

  • ** FILE ** President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview, April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Syrian State TV via AP video, File)

    Pro-Assad Syrian hackers attack Financial Times website

    The pro-Syria regime group, Syrian Electronic Army, hacked into the news site and Twitter feed of the Financial Times on Friday.

  • Syria's civil war is deja vu of regime change in Libya

    The Arab Spring that prompted the ouster of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya also led to the rise of Islamists who are bent on creating Islamic states that adhere to Shariah law — and that fate could await Syria after dictator Bashar Assad falls.

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    Embassy Row: After Afghanistan for NATO

    "In together, out together," Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende explained when asked how long his country's combat troops would stay in Afghanistan after U.S. forces leave next year.

  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Benghazi: The anatomy of a scandal; how the story of a U.S. tragedy unfolded — and then fell apart

    The tragedy of Benghazi, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, seemed a cut-and-dried story in the days after a mob attacked the State Department's mission in eastern Libya. Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false.

  • An email from then-CIA Director David Petraeus is among the 99 pages of emails regarding Benghazi released by the White House on May 15, 2013. Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. The White House released 99 pages of emails and a single page of hand-written notes made by Petraeus' deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice's appearance. (Associated Press)

    Dems rally behind White House on Benghazi

    Democrats rallied behind President Barack Obama in the long-running, bitter dispute over the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack, arguing that the White House's latest email disclosure undermines Republican claims of a cover-up.

  • KELLNER: Religious persecution can mean political upheaval

    Rising persecution of minority religious communities in Pakistan, Iran and Syria — and other nations — is a serious threat to stability in those countries and their neighbors, a panel of specialists said at a Hudson Institute forum this week, showing how religious tensions can have larger political ramifications in hot spots around the world.

  • ** FILE ** Michael V. Hayden headed the CIA from 2006 to 2009.

    TAUBE: Rejecting terror's 'new normal'

    Whether we like to admit it or not, the war on terrorism is still being fought. The immediate challenge is to identify the best strategy to permanently defeat the terrorist menace. Unless you share Gen. Michael V. Hayden's defeatist view of world affairs, that is.

  • **FILE** House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican (Associated Press)

    Benghazi talking points carefully trimmed; possible terror links scrubbed

    Under growing pressure, the White House on Wednesday released emails that showed the talking points crafted to explain the deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi last year were changed at the behest of a State Department worried about political fallout.

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    Turkey's Erdogan to press Obama to do more for Syrian rebels

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a meeting Thursday at the White House, is expected to urge President Obama to arm the Syrian opposition and enforce a "no-fly" zone in an effort to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.

  • FBI agents carry boxes and a computer from the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

    Feds take little action against U.S. Web companies hosting sites linked to terror

    Just miles from New York City’s hallowed Ground Zero, an Internet server in New Jersey hosts a Jihadist leader’s website that instructs supporters of al-Qaida to use explosive devices against western civilians, along with blueprints showing how to build the bombs.

  • China's combat drone is described as "a stark example of China's broad investment in advanced military technologies."

    Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda websites hacked

    Three of al Qaeda's major websites for recruiting terrorists and communicating propaganda were shut down recently in an apparent case of counterterrorism hacking or possibly as a result of internal disputes among terrorists.

  • ** FILE ** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Associated Press)

    Attorney General Holder defends Justice Department subpoena power against news media

    Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's use of its subpoena power to monitor the telephone records of editors and reporters at The Associated Press in a leak investigation, but said he was unaware of the details because he had recused himself from the leak case.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Justice for Benghazi victims now

    If you are educated enough to read and smart enough to know that two plus two equals four, you know that the Obama administration was less than forthright about the events in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.

  • The rapid spread of drone technology raises questions far beyond the U.S., says Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism.

    U.N. official: U.S. claim for using drones viewed as invalid

    The justification that U.S. officials cite in international law for killing terrorism suspects with drones is not accepted outside the United States, not even by America's allies, the U.N. official investigating the program said Tuesday.

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