IS top command dominated by ex-officers in Saddam’s army
By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA While attending the Iraqi army’s artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran…
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CIA facing gaps in Iraq as it hunts for militants
By KEN DILANIAN and JULIE PACE FILE – In this Monday, June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al-Qaida…
OBAMA BACKS LIMITS ON NSA PHONE COLLECTIONS
By JULIE PACE FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the…
OBAMA PONDERS LIMITING NSA ACCESS TO PHONE RECORDS
By JULIE PACE FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the…
HOTLINES MARK RETURN OF EGYPT’S SECURITY AGENCIES
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this file photo taken Saturday, March 5, 2011, an Egyptian man, right, carries a sign that reads in Arabic: “Arab Republic of Egypt,…
SNOWDEN: NSA’S INDISCRIMINATE SPYING ‘COLLAPSING’
By BRADLEY BROOKS FILE – This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden wrote…
US SPYING HAS SHATTERED ALLIES’ TRUST: MERKEL
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, is greeted by Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, right, as French President Francois Hollande, left, walks by during a round table meeting at an…
MEXICAN DIPLOMAT SAYS OBAMA PROMISES NSA PROBE
By JOHN HEILPRIN Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Antonio Meade speaks to reports during a news conference at the Mexican U.N. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013.…