BAMAKO (Reuters) - Fighting has broken out in northern Mali between Tuareg separatists and local Arab-led gunmen, only days after the African country won a $4.2 billion aid pledge to help it recover from a conflict with Islamists affiliated to al Qaeda. Full story
ADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked militants, a local security official said. Full story
(Reuters) - Journalists gasp and growl whenever prosecutors issue lawful subpoenas ordering them to divulge their confidential sources or to turn over potential evidence, such as notes, video outtakes or other records. It's an attack on the First Amendment, It's an attack on the First Amendment, It' Full story
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond overthrowing the Syrian leader. Full story
Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the U.S. government is so keen to find the source of the leak to the AP about the al Qaeda bomb plot, and the rare and valuable al Qaeda double agent whose life was put at risk by their reporting.
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. Full story
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen discusses the attack and the cell which claimed responsibility for it. Cohen also shares his thoughts on the recently released Benghazi emails.
One hundred pages of emails were passed out by the White House Wednesday as the Obama administration tried to put an end to the long simmering dispute over what took place when the American compound in Benghazi was attacked. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports.
Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who approved getting the AP’s phone records to track down the person that leaked classified information, said it was a last-resort effort after having conducted hundreds of interviews. NBC’s Pete Williams reports
Attorney General Eric Holder addresses questions from the press about the Justice Department seizure of the phone records of many AP reporters in pursuit of the source of a leak about an al-Qaida plot.
An investigation into who leaked information to the AP in May 2012 about a CIA operative who helped prevent an al Qaeda plot has resulted in what the AP calls a “massive unprecedented intrusion” by the Justice Department. NBC’s Tom Costello reports.
Islamist protesters shout slogans and burn a flag with the word " Police" on it, after they took it down and erected several al Qaeda flags at the main door of the state security headquarters in Cairo May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
A rocket launcher is pictured at al-Sahwa military base of the Syrian Army after it was captured by Free Syrian Army fighters, in Deraa in this March 9, 2013 file photo. The growing power of Islamist fighters in southern Syria is ringing alarm bells in neighbouring Jordan, which backs rebels battlin
Free Syrian Army fighters attend a training session in al-Giza village, in Deraa in this March 30, 2013 file photo. The growing power of Islamist fighters in southern Syria is ringing alarm bells in neighbouring Jordan, which backs rebels battling its old foe President Bashar al-Assad but fears thos
Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two suspects accused of plotting with al-Qaida in Iran to derail a train in Canada, arrives at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Esseghaier, 30, received "directions
