North Korea appears to be moving ahead with the building of a light-water reactor that could be used to support its nuclear weapons program, according to satellite images released Wednesday.
The signs of progress come amid fears that the secretive communist state is planning a new nuclear test, although experts said that the new reactor is likely...
Bomb disposal experts carried out a series of controlled blasts in the western English town of Cheltenham, media reports said Saturday, after police evacuated the area and held two men on terror charges.
The local men, aged 52 and 31, were arrested over explosives offences in Friday raids on two locations in a quiet residential suburb of the spa...
A recent bout of electronic jamming signals from North Korea highlighted the growing risks of cyber warfare, which experts fear could be among its pledged “special actions” against South Korea.
Hundreds of aircraft and ships have been affected by global positioning system disruptions traced to the North for the past week.
The Pentagon’s newest ballistic missile interceptor successfully destroyed a test missile off the coast of Hawaii late Wednesday. It’s a first for the latest upgrade to the America’s — and NATO’s — main defense against a missile attack from North Korea or Iran, assuming one ever comes.
The United States has foiled a plot by Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner near the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, officials said.
The FBI said investigators were examining the explosive that appeared to be a revamped model of the bomb employed in the Christmas Day plot of 2009, in which a plastic...
They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that ended late Saturday in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a...
One of al Qaeda's most prominent radical clerics may have been killed in a drone strike last year, but his words appear to have lived on in a new issue of al Qaeda's English-language magazine in which he calls for biological attacks against the U.S.
"The use of chemical and biological weapons against population centers is allowed and...
Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on the continent. It's also where three international armies have zeroed in on Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted warlords.
Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Kony's Lord's Resistance Army...
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton says he’s concerned about Pakistan’s improving capabilities to deliver nuclear weapons in the wake of a major missile test by that country on Wednesday.
“This gives them a capability across India,” he said Wednesday night on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”
The Iranian oil ministry's computer network came under attack from hackers and a computer virus, prompting the Islamic Republic to disconnect the country's main oil export terminal from the internet as a preventative measure, a semiofficial news agency reported on Monday.
The Mehr News Agency, which is a semi-official arm of the Iranian...
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is reorganizing its clandestine spy operation, sending more of its case officers to work alongside CIA officers to gather intelligence in places like China, after a decade of focusing intensely on war zones.
A senior defence official says several hundred case officers will make up the new Defence Clandestine...
The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday.
The Obama administration suspects the Chinese manufacturer sold the chassis - not the entire...
The government showed no signs of backing down Thursday from expropriating a Spanish company's controlling stake in Argentina's formerly state-owned energy company, shrugging off international condemnation while finding overwhelming support for the plan in congress.
Top officials also suggested that Argentina won't pay anywhere near...
India said Thursday that it had successfully carried out the maiden test flight of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can apparently travel more than 5,000 kilometers.
The Agni V rocket took off around 8:03 a.m. local time (10.33 p.m. Wednesday ET) and "met all the mission objectives," said S.P. Das, director of the...
A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology. The launch is a setback for new leader Kim Jong Un, whose government...
Two members of the U.S. Coast Guard were found shot to death at an air base on Kodiak Island in Alaska on Thursday, and the installation was placed on a security alert, the Coast Guard said.
The two were found dead at a communications facility at the Coast Guard Base Support Unit Kodiak, and authorities were looking for a potential suspect who...
RABAT, Morocco - The spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Morocco says that a helicopter accident during a training exercise has left two U.S. Marines dead and two injured.
Rodney Ford said the incident took place in southern Morocco on Wednesday during the exercise by a Marine expeditionary unit and the Moroccan military.
Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test, according to South Korean intelligence officials.
The excavation at North Korea's northeast Punggye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, is in its final stages, according to a report...
North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity.
The Associated Press was among foreign news agencies allowed a firsthand look Sunday at preparations under...
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North Korea appears to be moving ahead with the building of a light-water reactor that could be used to support its nuclear weapons program, according to satellite images released Wednesday.
