Naftali Bendavid

President Bush offered a spirited defense of his controversial military tribunal system for prosecuting terrorist suspects Thursday as Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft announced a program to provide immigration benefits to...

As senators debated the Bush administration's anti-terrorist tactics Wednesday, Sen. Arlen Specter was clearly frustrated. Specter, normally a White House ally, criticized President Bush's order setting the stage for military...

Federal authorities are holding 603 people in custody as a result of the FBI's sweeping terrorism investigation, including members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft...

Hundreds of Taliban prisoners rioted Sunday inside a military fortress in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e Sharif. U.S. warplanes bombed the prison to help quell the uprising, and most...

The Northern Alliance agreed Sunday to international talks about the future of Afghanistan's government, a potentially important diplomatic breakthrough, as Taliban forces fought desperately to retain their two remaining strongholds....

Investigators believe Yemeni fugitive Ramzi Binalshibh was intended to be the 20th hijacker on airplanes seized on Sept. 11 and crashed in suicide attacks, officials confirmed Thursday. Investigators have wondered...

Administration officials, facing sharp criticism over their proposed use of military tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects, defended the practice Wednesday as a reasonable option in a time of war....

President Bush signed an order Tuesday paving the way for alleged terrorists to be tried by special military tribunals instead of criminal courts, potentially speeding up the trials and allowing...

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft announced a "wartime reorganization and mobilization" of the Justice Department on Thursday, saying he would move 10 percent of the department's Washington workforce to the field...

U.S. authorities began a worldwide crackdown Wednesday on two shadowy financial organizations, a banking group and a money-transfer network, that they say help Saudi exile Osama bin Laden finance terrorist...