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The 9/11 commission's report lends unusual attention to Pakistan, saying that the governments in Islamabad and Washington need to make 'hard choices' if they are to make progress in the […]

The report issued in London on Wednesday on the problems with prewar intelligence on Iraq was far kinder to British intelligence than a similar report last week in Washington was […]

The C.I.A.'s assertion, in its national intelligence estimate, that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program 'was not supported by the intelligence,' the Senate report said, and in some ways reflected […]

The Defense Department announced a series of steps on Wednesday that would let detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, challenge their status as enemy combatants from the war in Afghanistan and […]

Despite major lapses in command and control, lower-level personnel generally rose to the challenge posed by the Sept. 11 hijackings, taking creative and decisive action to confront a crisis for […]

The staff of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks sharply contradicted one of President Bush's central justifications for the Iraq war, reporting on Wednesday that there did not appear […]

The Pentagon is preparing for an influx of compensation claims stemming from the charges of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Defense Department officials said Friday. So far, […]

With top Iraq battlefield commanders scheduled to testify about the prison abuse scandal before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, a major rift has developed among Republicans as to […]

Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism chief in President Bush's National Security Council, said on Thursday that his former boss, Condoleezza Rice, had a radically different interpretation from his of […]

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said during a visit here on Monday that American judicial authorities were looking into prosecuting the former Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, on corruption charges. […]

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell embarked on a five-nation, four-day tour on Tuesday, hoping to mend fences with Europeans upset by the American strategy in Iraq and to stiffen […]

Europe will resist an American effort to bring the suspected Iranian development of nuclear weapons before the United Nations Security Council, hoping to lure Iran into compliance with negotiations and […]

A federal judge has ordered five reporters, including two from The New York Times, to disclose the confidential sources they used in preparing articles about Dr. Wen Ho Lee, the […]

An H.I.V.-positive man whose application for the Foreign Service was rejected on medical grounds is suing the State Department, saying its employment criteria are discriminatory and outdated, his lawyer said […]

The Bush administration is 'deeply concerned' over the well-being of the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is protesting her three-month detention with a hunger strike, the State […]

The Bush administration certified today that Colombia was making progress in reining in paramilitary forces that terrorize the civilian population and often work in conjunction with the country's armed forces. […]

Colombia has extradited a leftist guerrilla to the United States for prosecution in the 1999 killing of three Americans, State Department officials said. Nelson Vargas Rueda, 33, a low-level member […]

There is no evidence that American forces were fired on from the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad before they shelled the building, killing two of nearly 100 journalists staying there, a […]

The United States ordered the expulsion of 14 Cuban envoys today for 'inappropriate and unacceptable activities,' a common diplomatic reference to spying. The mass expulsion of Cuban diplomats is among […]

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell criticized Cuba today as an 'aberration in the Western Hemisphere' and said the administration is studying ways to respond to the Havana government's recent […]

Janet Rehnquist, inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department, resigned tonight in the face of Congressional opposition and a wide-ranging inquiry into her conduct. Ms. Rehnquist, daughter of […]

The Bush administration has more than doubled the number of prosecutions of people suspected of trafficking in human beings since 2001, but the problem of foreigners exploited for sex or […]

A federal worker who was convicted last week of trying to sell secrets to Iraq and China will not face the death penalty, a jury decided today. The former Air […]

The German government has agreed to provide evidence against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks facing trial in an American court, and France is expected to […]

The number of refugees admitted to the United States declined sharply in the 2002 fiscal year because security concerns stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks bogged down the screening process, […]

Colombia has extradited two men suspected of taking part in a violent kidnapping ring that focused on American and other foreign workers in Ecuador and demanded huge ransoms from their […]

Cuba's foreign minister today angrily rebutted State Department charges that his government was providing the United States with false leads on terrorism, and he accused one American official of 'lying […]

OVER the years, F.B.I. directors have shifted resources to confront the scourge at hand. In the 1970's, Clarence M. Kelley veered away from the fight against Communism and took on […]

President Bush has warned President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt that the United States will not deliver any new aid to Egypt in protest against the prosecution of a leading human […]

Alvaro Uribe Velez, Colombia's president-elect, met with President Bush today and pledged to increase his country's commitment in the fight against drugs and terrorism, officials said. Mr. Uribe, a former […]

Leading Senate Democrats today accused the Missile Defense Agency of excessive secrecy in reporting on its tests, timetables and cost estimates. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is chairman […]

The State Department is negotiating the terms under which Richard C. Holbrooke, the former ambassador to the United Nations, and other American diplomats may testify in the war crimes trial […]

In the past year, the United States channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to American and Venezuelan groups opposed to President Hugo Chavez, including the labor group whose […]

The Pentagon has ordered a review of its actions during the 48-hour ouster of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela earlier this month to ensure that American military officials did not […]

The Pentagon's inspector general is looking into the recent travels of Army Secretary Thomas E. White amid concerns that he may have used a military jet for personal travel, officials […]

The Bush administration voiced deep skepticism today over a reported offer from Iraq to discuss the status of an American pilot who was shot down there in 1991. Defense Secretary […]

When Thomas E. White was chosen last spring to become secretary of the Army, administration officials portrayed his nomination as part of an effort to bring corporate discipline to the […]

The Justice Department concluded today that the Clinton administration had acted reasonably in filing lawsuits against power plants under the Clean Air Act. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the Bush […]

John Walker, the 20-year-old Californian captured while fighting with the Taliban, learned of plans to send suicide teams to the United States three months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, […]

The Pentagon's top intelligence analyst for Cuba, accused of spying for the Havana government, identified American agents to Cuban officials and revealed details about a top secret intelligence gathering system, […]

A two-star general was among eight Marine Corps officers who have been charged with misconduct in the falsification of maintenance records of the V-22 Osprey aircraft, Marine officials said today. […]

Federal authorities announced they had shut down the largest child pornography ring ever uncovered. The ring involved Landslide Productions, an Internet firm based in Fort Worth, Tex., which provided its […]

The aunt of Chandra Ann Levy, a 24-year-old federal intern who was last seen on April 30, said today that her niece had a romantic relationship with Representative Gary A. […]

A federal court jury in Florida today convicted a retired civilian employee of the Army of spying for the Soviet Union and then Russia over at least 25 years. The […]

The House voted today to temporarily bar the Interior Department from leasing the waters off the Florida Panhandle for oil and gas exploration, a setback to the Bush administration's energy […]

Accusing federal regulators of not doing their job, Senator Dianne Feinstein called today for hearings into possible improprieties between members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and private energy interests. […]

Accounts that departing Clinton administration officials destroyed office equipment and committed other acts of vandalism in the White House during the presidential transition were significantly overblown, a manager at the […]

The F.B.I. has discovered thousands of pages of interview reports and other materials about the Oklahoma City bombing that the government failed to turn over to a lawyer for Timothy […]

WHEN Milan Protic reopened the embassy of Yugoslavia last month, it was like stepping into a haunted house, he said. Most of the furniture was in storage and a thick […]