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A Scottish court is expected to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi on compassionate grounds, senior State Department officials tell CNN.

Secret CIA program to kill terrorist leaders was outsourced in 2004 to security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted scrutiny, officials say.

A series of powerful explosions reverberated across the heart of Baghdad today, killing at least 75 people and wounding more than 300 on the deadliest day in the capital since U.S. forces completed their withdrawal from Iraq's cities on June 30.

An Afghan militant group is willing to "help" U.S. and coalition forces, if they prepare to leave Afghanistan, the group's leader said in a statement given to CNN on Monday.

A huge explosion occurred near the main gate of NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, a heavily guarded area ...

23 soldiers and at least 20 suspected terrorists have been killed as government troops stormed training camps of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf.

Kuwait said on Tuesday it had foiled an al Qaeda-linked plan to bomb a U.S. Army camp and other "important facilities" in the OPEC oil exporting state.

A series of bombings mostly targeting day laborers killed 41 people and wounded 160 in Iraq on Monday, the Ministry of Interior said.

A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said Friday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims.

Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud may have been killed in a U.S. drone attack, a U.S. official said Friday.