Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned on Monday to avoid impeachment charges, nearly nine years after the former army chief and key ally in the U.S. campaign against terrorism took power in a coup.
The New York Police Department is working on a plan to track every car, truck or other vehicle entering Manhattan and screen them for radioactive materials and other terrorism threats.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Japan that Washington will not remove North Korea from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said.
Libya would pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate U.S. victims of terrorism under a tentative agreement that hinges on action by the U.S. Congress, sources familiar with the accord said on Wednesday.
The United States said on Friday North Korea had to make "substantial progress" on a verification plan for its nuclear weapons before being taken off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
FBI Director Robert Mueller has apologized to the editors of The Washington Post and The New York Times for improperly obtaining phone records of the newspapers' reporters while investigating terrorism four years ago.
Osama bin Laden's driver, who received only a five-year sentence, is not so different from the majority of the 265 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay: a low-level player without a proven record of terrorism.
Osama bin Laden's former driver is expected to ask the Pentagon jury that convicted him of a war crime to spare him from life in prison Thursday, his defense lawyers said.
Charges have been filed against 19 Guantanamo prisoners, in addition to Salim Hamdan, who was convicted by a jury Wednesday, and David Hicks, who pleaded guilty in March 2007. The military has also prepared charges against a 20th prisoner and plans to prosecute about 80 in all. A look at some of those charged:
