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AP - Al-Qaida is in decline around the world but is still a leading threat to the United States, joined by others like Iran, the top U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday in an annual report to Congress on threats facing America. More...

AP - Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district Friday, targeting heavily guarded intelligence buildings and killing at least 40 people, Syrian authorities said. More...

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erected a fence and security cameras to protect itself against potential attacks. Four men will be charged Thursday in connection with a terror plot against a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the nation's authorities...

The cable in question, which was signed with Clinton's name, is routine, a U.S. official said. Washington -- U.S. officials came to the defense of the secretary of state Tuesday, insisting that Hillary Clinton did not order State Department staff to spy on United Nations diplomats, as...

Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, were killed in Chabad House, a Jewish cultural center in Mumbai. New York -- Family members of two New Yorkers gunned down during the 2008 Mumbai, India, terror attacks are suing Pakistan's intelligence agency along with a militant...

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) headquarters outside Moscow as seen on June 29. Washington -- A colonel in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, identified as "Colonel Shcherbakov," gave the United States information on a Russian spy ring in the United States that was broken...

The Obama administration is expected to deploy more Predator drones in Yemen to hunt for and possible strike against, al Qaeda in the country, U.S. officials said. Air attacks against operatives of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have stopped over the past several months, because the...

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Pakistani helicopters attacked militant hideouts in the nation's tribal region Saturday, killing 12 suspected militants, intelligence officials told CNN. Two intelligence officials said the attacks targeted militant hideouts in the areas of Ghaljao and Daboori in Orakzai...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON (AFP) – Republican Senator John McCain is holding up a full Senate confirmation vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the US intelligence community, his spokeswoman confirmed Monday. McCain's...

Pakistani militants raise money openly ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (UPI) -- Militants are openly raising funds in Pakistan's Punjab province at religious gatherings, ceremonies and social welfare meetings, an intelligence report says. The disclosure by Pakistani intelligence comes amid reports that...

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's intelligence agents mounted a "complicated" cross-border mission and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported Tuesday. The agents rescued Heshmatollah Attarzadeh of Iran's Peshawar consulate "in a complicated...

What is intelligence? Two men were digging a ditch on a very hot day. One said to the other, "Why are we down in this hole digging a ditch when our boss is standing up there in the shade of a tree?" "I don't know," responded the other. "I'll ask him." So he climbed out of the hole and went to...

share of intelligence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You seem to have more than the average share of intelligence for a man of your background," sneered the lawyer at a witness on the stand. "If I wasn't under oath, I'd return the...

Spy satellite agency boss resigns -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. spy satellite agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, has announced his resignation, a spokesman said on Thursday. Scott Large...

Colombian prosecutor orders search of spy agency BOGOTA – Colombia's chief prosecutor ordered a search Sunday of the headquarters of the country's domestic intelligence agency over allegations some of its agents eavesdropped on prominent journalists, Supreme Court judges and opposition members...