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** FILE ** In this June 18, 2013, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Officials: Al-Qaida plots comeback in Afghanistan

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2004 file photo, self-styled cleric Mustafa Kamel Mustafa leads his followers in prayer in a street outside Finsbury Park Mosque in London, on the first anniversary of its closure by anti-terrorism police. Facing charges in New York that he conspired to support al-Qaida, Mustafa notified Judge Katherine Forrest that he will testify at his April 2014 trial. (AP Photo/John D McHugh, File)

Judge refuses to delay NYC terror trial

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

GORDON: Tyrants in Ukraine, Syria, Iran are emboldened by Obama’s weakness

By J.D. Gordon

Mistaken identity defense raised in NY terror case

Associated Press

Residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk line up to receive food supplies in Damascus. A United Nations official is calling on warring sides in Syria to allow aid workers to resume distribution of food and medicine in the capital. (United Nations Relief and Works Agency via associated press)

Proxy war between Iran, Saudi Arabia playing out in Syria

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 24, 1998, photo, Muslim militant and al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai)

Special congressional panel to investigate FBI contact with bin Laden

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade adjust their weapons during training near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel takes risk with airstrike on Hezbollah

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Old Enemy: Osama bin Laden told an FBI source in 1993 that he was looking to finance terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. (Associated Press)

EXCLUSIVE: FBI had human source in contact with bin Laden as far back as 1993

By Guy Taylor and John Solomon - The Washington Times

**FILE** U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power speaks about Syria on Sept. 6, 2013, at the Center for American Progress in Washington. (Associated Press)

U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power slammed for Daniel Pearl tweets

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, Himyar al-Qadhy, whose brother Adnan, was killed in 2012 by U.S drone strike east of Sanaa, Yemen, points to what he says is the rocket that killed his brother, a Yemeni army brigadier suspected of involvement in a militant attack in 2008 against the US Embassy in Sanaa. The brother denies that Adnan was a member of the al-Qaida. The portrait on the wall shows his late brother. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

In Yemen, a woman’s life entangled with al-Qaida

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Report: US drone may have killed dozen civilians

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press

In this undated photo released by the family of Ahmed al-Darbi on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, which was provided to them by the International Committee of the Red Cross, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed al-Darbi is seen at Camp 4 of the detention center on Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. A Guantanamo Bay prisoner pleaded guilty Thursday to war crimes charges for helping plan the suicide bombing of an oil tanker off Yemen in 2002 that killed a crewman and wounded a dozen others. At an arraignment before a U.S. military judge, Ahmed al-Darbi of Saudi Arabia pleaded guilty to the five charges against him including terrorism, attacking civilians and hazarding a vessel for complicity in the al-Qaida attack on the French-flagged MV Limburg. (AP Photo)

Guantanamo prisoner pleads guilty in bombing

By Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 8, 2013 file-pool photo shows a solider standing guard near a military aircraft in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A new assessment of Afghanistan’s future says the country could once again become a terrorist haven unless U.S. and international partners underwrite a much larger Afghan security force than is currently planned beyond 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File-Pool)

New study casts doubt on West’s Afghan plan

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Washington has held indirect talks with the Taliban over the possible transfer of five senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan nearly five years ago, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press. A U.S. official said the possibility of an exchange is under discussion but would not comment on whether any talks have yet occurred. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Taliban say they discussed prison swap with US

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, hold up his portraits as they march during a demonstration is solidarity with government forces, in al-Inshaat neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Wednesday Feb. 11, 2014. Meanwhile the Syrian government on Tuesday allowed over a hundred men of fighting age to leave rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Homs after they were questioned and cleared of rebel links, state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Al Qaeda split grows over Syrian rebels

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon - The Washington Times

Feds want shoe bomb plotter to testify in Conn.

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN - Associated Press

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant travels in Iraq's Anbar province. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

The term ‘Al Qaeda’ becomes a tangled web of words

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. An American citizen who is a member of Al Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year. The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he’s an American citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it has not completed. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Obama officials weigh drone attack on US suspect

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Jan. 29, 2014, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

White House mulls drone kill against U.S. terror suspect

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this photo taken early Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, Malian singer Salif Keita, rear center, performs on stage at a music festival at Segou, Mali. Long before Mali captured the global spotlight as an al-Qaida training ground where French soldiers had to intervene, the West African nation was celebrated for producing some of the biggest stars in world music. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)

Mali music festival returns after end of war

By BABA AHMED - Associated Press