Anwar al-Awlaki

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention away from a series of domestic scandals with a speech on Thursday that defends the U.S. use of drones abroad and lays out a vision for closing the military...

It's about time. President Barack Obama's announcement today of new limits on drone strikes and his renewed call to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay were badly overdue. The United States has lost much credibility overseas with...

(Actualiza con comentarios de Obama, detalles, agrega autores) Por Jeff Mason y Steve Holland WASHINGTON, 23 mayo (Reuters) - El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció el jueves una nueva política gubernamental para limitar el uso de...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is facing demands in court to reveal more about the U.S. drone program, despite his speech addressing it on Thursday and his government's acknowledgement a day earlier that four Americans have died in drone...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government formally acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Attorney General Eric Holder...

Por Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, 23 mayo (Reuters) - El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, tratará de desviar la atención de una serie de escándalos domésticos con un discurso el jueves en el que defenderá el uso de drones en el extranjero y...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to improve conditions for detainees, putting more pressure on the Obama administration to make good its promise to close...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday that the United States has killed four Americans in counterterrorism operations, three of whom were not targets of the strikes involving drones in Yemen and elsewhere. Holder...

WASHINGTON, 22 mayo (Reuters) - El Gobierno de Estados Unidos reconoció formalmente el miércoles por primera vez que mató a cuatro estadounidenses en operaciones contra el terrorismo en Yemen y Pakistán, donde Washington ha realizado ataques aéreos...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out the rationale for U.S. drone strikes in a speech on Thursday in an effort to be more transparent about his counterterrorism policy, a White House official said. Obama has been pressured from both...

My periodic "Did You Know" columns tend to raise the blood pressure of more conservative readers who are embarrassed/angry/frustrated by the increasingly aggressive counter-cultural policies of the hard left and their allies in Hollywood, on campus, and...

In the two months after 9/11, I called Baltimore County police to check out a black-and-tan backpack left by an office door in Towson, reported an abandoned carry-on bag at BWI to Maryland State Police and refused to watch a bulky valise for a stranger...