Counterterrorism
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 07:00
But the approved techniques are only good if there is good supervision, said Steve Kleinman, a former U.S. military senior interrogator.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 06:50
A delegation of law-enforcement executives from California and Washington state has come to Israel to receive training in counter-terrorism methods from Israeli experts.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 13:00
Yemen recieves two Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft from the U.S. to be used for surveillance and counterterrorism efforts.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 12:57
The Global Counterterrorism Forum announces a new fund to combat extremism at the local level.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 10:18
Late Friday night, U.S. military personnel conducted a targeted operation against Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, known as "Ikrima", a Kenyan of Somali origin.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 09:39
Twenty years to the day after the failed "Black Hawk Down" Ranger mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, the commander of a Navy SEAL team attempting to extract a terrorist kingpin from a coastal village pulled his unit out as the mission started to founder and it became clear the militant leader couldn't be taken alive.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 09:37
The team of less than two dozen Navy SEALs from Seal Team 6 huddled in one fast boat and headed toward the Somali shoreline under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 09:32
Al-Shabab is back. After suffering a series of crippling defeats at the hands of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Somali National Army, the militant Islamist organization had all but disappeared from Somalia's major urban areas -- and from the list of concerns of many in the international community. But the recent attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and the dramatic raid this weekend by U.S. Navy SEALs on the coastal Somali town of Barawe have served to highlight the resurgence of the terrorist group.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 09:26
The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country's parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 09:11
When Navy SEALs were met with gunfire as they attempted a raid on a seaside militant compound in southern Somalia early Saturday, the commander of the operation had the authority to call in a U.S. airstrike. Instead, he opted to retreat.