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President Obama is expected to discuss Thursday at the National Defense University his justification for drone strikes and what they achieved, observers said.
Al-Qaida may capitalize on the twin bombings last week in Boston because of the Chechen rebel campaign, former CIA officer Bruce Riedel writes.
Nearly two dozen suspected members of al-Qaida were executed for terrorism-related charges ahead of provincial elections, the Iraqi government said.
Despite Western claims that al-Qaida's on the ropes, counter-terrorism experts warn that jihadist forces remain as dangerous as ever.
Unresolved internal divisions in Iraq threaten to reverse security gains made in recent years, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said from Baghdad.
The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida is in the midst of a "revival" as a regional terrorist movement, a counter-terrorism analyst at a U.S. think tank said.
Intercepted emails show 11 Jordanians who allegedly plotted to attack civilian and government targets in Amman received help from an al-Qaida affiliate in Iraq.
U.S. envoy slaying and the terror threat
The killing of the U.S. envoy to Libya and an abortive August attack in the Sinai desert are brutal reminders that Islamist terrorism is far from defeated.
Zawahiri 'can't just talk about terror'
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of al-Qaida, must orchestrate "a significant terrorist attack" to "cement his authority," a former CIA official said.
Bin Laden rejected plan to mow down people
Months before he died in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs, Osama bin Laden rejected a plan to mow down people like weeds, documents found after his death reveal.
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch