Across the United States, Americans marked the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with solemn memorial services and heartfelt tributes. Mona Ghuneim reports from VOA's New York Bureau. A child tosses a rose into the refl...
By Al Pessin Washington 12 June 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. President Bush says he will try to work with Congr...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 06 March 2008 A Palestinian gunman shot and killed eight people inside the library of a rabbinical seminary in Jerusalem late Thursday. VOA's Jim Teeple reports the attack comes as tensions are high in the region after a week...
By Meredith Buel Islamabad 09 February 2008 U.S. Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says militants linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida have found safe haven in Pakistan and represent a threat to both the United States...
By Brian Wagner Miami 22 January 2008 A federal judge has ordered an American Muslim convert to serve more than 17 years in prison for conspiring with al-Qaida, and he was accused of trying to explode a radioactive dirty bomb. In Miami, VOA's Brian W...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 28 December 2007 Mauritania is investigating a second deadly attack less than five days after four French tourists were killed. The government is blaming the killings on a terrorist organization. In the latest attack, four sold...
By Sonja Pace London 19 December 2007 Three British-linked terrorism suspects have been released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and sent back to Britain. At the same time a French court has convicted five former Guantanamo inmates...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 21 September 2007 FBI Director Robert Mueller says transatlantic cooperation against terrorism is improving - and is vital for Europe and the United States to be able to successfully counter threats. Mueller is on a tour of Europ...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 07 September 2007 An official U.S. warning that Western interests in Nigeria are at risk of a terrorist attack has provoked a strong reaction from the Nigerian government. A government spokesman rejected the report as an unf...
By Meredith Buel Washington 07 May 2007 The U.S. Congress is debating legislation to change the way alleged terrorists, known as unlawful enemy combatants, are allowed to use America's legal system while they are being detained by the Defense Departm...