Human rights groups blast Obama for signing defense bill
Law’s provisions place tough restrictions on transfer of prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay facility.
Court backs Obama administration on secrecy of targeted killings
The federal judge, however, pointed out a “veritable Catch-22” of security rules with the anti-terrorism program.
Danger between the lines of a contract in Afghanistan
Security details in a plan to expand a base reveal how dangerous the country remains.
Clinton leaves hospital
Secretary of state underwent three days of treatment for a potentially dangerous blood clot in her head.
To thwart hackers, firms salting their servers with fake data
Digital deception tools attract hackers and keep them inside a network to be watched.
How Obama administration continues to embrace secret arrests, detentions
U.S. continues practice of rendition despite widespread condemnation of the tactic years after Sept. 11 attacks.
Excess-profits tax on contractors during wartime is long overdue
FINE PRINT | For the new year, a radical national security idea that should have happened years ago.
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An ongoing U.S. kill list
The United States expects to continue adding names to kill-or-capture lists for years.
Also at stake in ‘cliff’: Up to 800,000 civilian employees’ Pentagon jobs
Pentagon says it might furlough employees if lawmakers failed to cancel spending reductions.
Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized with a blood clot, according to her office.
Assad isolated, afraid as regime teeters
Accounts from inside Syria depict the embattled leader as obsessed with security but defiant toward foes.
Global Response Staff: the CIA’s secret security force
A series of scrapes has illuminated the role of one of the agency’s key elements in its defensive arsenal.
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Elsewhere in World
Africa
- Rebels in Central African Republic seize another town just days before peace talks to start
- Report: Algerian army operation killed close associated of al-Qaida in North Africa chief
- Former Algerian prime minister resigns as head of party amid divisions
- Islamist group in northern Mali withdraws its cease-fire, criticizes talks with govt
Middle East
- Israeli PM, in rare interviews, appeals to his base not to look for alternatives on the right
- Syrian President Assad to deliver speech to the nation on Sunday, state media says
- Court clears Egypt's ex-culture minister of graft charges
- Iran says it is developing software to control social networking sites
Europe
- British Spitfire search team arrives in Myanmar to start dig for WWII fighter planes
- Report: Missoni fashion scion among 6 passengers on small plane missing in Venezuela
- Nepali colonel charged with torture remanded in custody after appearing in UK court
- Spanish police seize ancient plundered vase from an antique shop
The Americas
- Venezuela keeps same legislative chief amid uncertainty about ailing leader
- Duvalier attorney: Haiti officials renew diplomatic passport for 'Baby Doc'
- Venezuelan VP: Ailing Hugo Chavez could be sworn in later before Supreme Court
- John Sheardown, Canadian diplomat who sheltered Americans during Iran hostage crisis, dies
National Security
- McChrystal accepts blame for Rolling Stone article, but questions fairness, accuracy in memoir
- Pentagon mulls whether to open more battle zone jobs to women, but how many really want them?
- Correction: Obit-Schwarzkopf story
- Clinton to return to work at State Department next week after treatment for blood clot in head