Donald Trump has appeared to confirm he is under investigation for obstruction of justice, claiming he is being probed for firing FBI director James Comey by the man who told him to do it.

The Obama administration is expected to release part of a secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 9/11 that may shed light on possible Saudi connections to the 2001 attacks.

Donald Trump has been slammed for his “outrageous” behaviour after he appeared to mock a disabled reporter by imitating him.

The US has released a trove of documents seized when special forces stormed Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan in 2011 that include references to unfulfilled plots such as an attack on the US embassy in Moscow.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen offshoot could bring down a transatlantic passenger plane at any time, a new book by a former CIA leader has warned.

A senior Afghan leader has said his country’s government will begin peace talks with the Taliban in the “near future”.

A senior Afghan leader has said that his country’s government will begin peace talks with the Taliban in the “near future”.

President Barack Obama is poised in the next few days to ask Congress for new authority to use US military force against Islamic State (IS) militants.

Lawyers for victims of the September 11 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia “directly and knowingly” helped the hijackers, including sworn testimony from the so-called 20th hijacker and from three principals of the US government’s two primary probes of the attacks.

Radical gained notoriety for incendiary speeches at mosque

A court has ordered the Palestinian group Hamas to be removed from the EU terrorist list for procedural reasons, but says the Union can maintain asset freezes against Hamas members for now.

CIA director John Brennan has defended his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects with no security benefits to the US.

Two window cleaners who were stranded 69 storeys above street level when their cradle partially collapsed have been rescued.

The retired Navy SEAL who says he shot al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden in the forehead has publicly identified himself amid a debate among the special operations community about breaking silence about their secret missions.

An Irish-American from "the most Irish town in America" has been named as the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden.

A New York judge has sentenced Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law to life in prison after he was convicted of terror offences.

A man jumped over the fence of the White House and made it through the front door before officers managed to apprehend him, just minutes after President Barack Obama had departed.

After years of resistance, Obama is taking a risk by committing US forces in Iraq says Julie Pace

Frank Lampard revealed he plans to visit the memorial dedicated to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks after sealing his move to MLS side New York City FC.

The al Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of Syria and Iraq has formally declared the establishment of a new Islamic state.

The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of north-eastern Syria and huge tracts of Iraq formally declared the establishment of a new Islamic state.

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May has welcomed the conviction of radical cleric Abu Hamza on terrorism charges.

Shoe-bomb plotter Saajid Badat admits he was once in the thick of al Qaida’s plans, winning a hug from Osama bin Laden for his quest to blow up a US plane in mid-air.

Rashard Mendenhall kind of wanted to disappear, he told the world this past Sunday.

Campaigning officially opened yesterday in Afghanistan’s presidential election, with 11 candidates vying to succeed president Hamid Karzai in polls seen as a crucial test of whether Afghanistan can ensure a stable political transition.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman saluted the September 11 terrorists and warned that more strikes by al Qaida were on the way in a speech a few months after the 2001 US terror attacks, prosecutors have said.

The militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement organised the suicide vehicle attack that killed five people in the heart of Beijing this week, China’s most senior security official said.

Aaron Alexis seems a study in contradictions: a former Navy reservist, a Defence Department contractor, a convert to Buddhism who was taking an online course in aeronautics. But he also had a temper that led to run-ins with police over shootings.

Al-Qaida’s leader has marked the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks by calling on Muslims to strike inside the United States, with big attacks or small, using any opportunity they can to “bleed” America financially.

Families of the victims of the worst terror attack on the United States in history have gathered to mark the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a moment of silence and the reading of names.

If you believe the cavemen who scream “Mashed potatoes’, “Get in the hole’, “You the man” or “Baba Boey’ are headed for extinction under a new draconian security policy by golf’s tours, think again.

US diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least until the end of this week, amid online “chatter” about terror threats.

The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

The United States issued a global travel alert today, citing an al Qaida threat that also caused the State Department to close its embassies on Sunday around the Muslim world.

Abu Qatada has finally faced terror charges in Jordan after a near-decade long battle to deport the radical cleric came to a tense close.

Seven people have been killed in clashes between protesters and former rebels aligned with the military in Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi.

A suicide bomber targeting an American military delegation outside a government office in eastern Afghanistan has killed 13 people, including 10 schoolchildren and two international service members.

Today’s killing in broad daylight is thought to be the first terrorist attack on British streets since the 2005 London bombings.

The CIA has confirmed it wanted one of the Boston bombing suspects placed on a terrorist database 18 months ago.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion last week after becoming extremely dehydrated and fainting while suffering from a stomach virus, the State Department said.

Former CIA director David Petraeus was sneaked into the Capitol today, away from the media, to face lawmakers’ questions about the attack on the US Consulate in Libya – just one week after he resigned over an extramarital affair.