Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday his government would not join U.S. peace talks with the Taliban until they were led by Afghans and would suspend negotiations with the United States on a troop pact. Read More

President Obama returns to the Brandenburg Gate five years after his speech there and twenty-six years after a famous speech given by one of his predecessors. Read More

Representatives of the United States and the Taliban are expected to meet over the next few days in Doha, Qatar, to discuss an end to the 12 year old war in Afghanistan directly with that country's government. Read More

As he ran for president in 2008, Obama made clear he was committed to all national security tools in the fight against terrorism, but he was equally forceful on protecting privacy and civil rights. Read More

GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson says Susan Rice is "competent" but continues call for Holder to resign. Read More

Obama will "go down in history as the president who legitimized and systematized a process by which the United States asserts the right to conduct assassination operations around the world," says Jeremy Scahill. Read More

Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing will be the first time in nearly 10 years that military leaders can discuss strategies with lawmakers in a full hearing to address the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. Read More

Bradley Manning's trial for leaking government secrets is at the heart of the Obama administration’s aggressive stance on leak investigations. Manning's unprecedented case could test the limit of the government’s ability to control information and punish those who disseminate it. Read More

Understanding the potential "blowback" to U.S. counterterrorism policy is logic is basic: American violence leads to anti-American violence. Yet, to point this out has always been controversial. Read More

"This war, like all wars, must end," President Obama said this week. Read More

What to expect from Saturday's Up with Steve Kornacki. Read More

The president evoked the suffering of detainees at Gitmo and the moral hazard of continuing to hold them----but didn't offer a real plan to close the prison or promise to end the practice of indefinite detention. Read More

The White House spoke openly about its rationale for using drones against terrorists. But it's still an open question if the program creates as many enemies as it kills. Read More

The remarks come as Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday for the first time that the U.S. killed four Americans in drone strikes in Yemen in Pakistan, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Read More

More than 1,300 activists and politicians signed a call to close the Guantanamo internment camp in an ad featured in Thursday's New York Times on the morning of the president's national security speech. Read More

President Obama will make his first major counter terrorism speech of his second term today. He plans to put limits on the nation's use of unmanned drone strikes that have rankled liberals and libertarians alike. Read More

The president's rationale for force-feeding Gitmo hunger strikers is hard to square with his promise to "restore America's standing in the world." Read More

The Department of Justice's secret subpoena of journalists' phone records is "unconstitutional," the president of The Associated Press said on Sunday. Read More

The surviving Boston bombing suspect wrote a note inside the hull of the boat in which he hid, describing the bombings as retaliation for the actions of the United States against Muslims. Read More