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The memo concluded that the killing of an al-Qaida leader who had been born in the United States had legal justification.

A prisoner from Iraq who has already been held for seven years at Guantanamo is to be arraigned Wednesday on war crimes charges.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is facing federal charges that he sought to join an al-Qaida-linked militant group fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. A federal criminal indictment says 29-year-old Basit Javed Sheikh of Cary is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization...

The U.S. pulled out of Iraq two years ago.

Al-Libi was recently captured by U.S. forces in Libya and was interrogated on a U.S. warship.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a Libyan al-Qaida suspect is now in New York awaiting trial on terrorism charges, after a weeklong interrogation aboard a U.S. warship. The suspect, Abu Anas al-Libi, was grabbed in a military raid in Libya on Oct...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is vowing that al-Qaida suspect Abu Anas al-Libi will be brought to justice. But Obama sidestepped a question during a White House news conference about whether the raid that captured al-Libi complied with international law...

CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida's leader has marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by calling on Muslims to strike inside the United States, using any opportunity they can to "bleed" America financially. In an audio message released a day after the 12th anniversary of the attacks, Ayman al-Zawahri claims America is not a "mythical power" and that the mujahedeen — Islamic h

Ayman Al-Zawahri spoke in a 22-minute audio message posted on the Internet on Wednesday.