(The military last September disavowed the tactics and embraced a new interrogation field manual that expressly prohibits the coercive methods, but the CIA, under Bush's new executive order, seems ...

The new call-up orders will allow the Israeli military to substantially widen its 23-day campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has already claimed more than 1,360 Palestinian lives. 2.

WASHINGTON — The brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA’s early use of harsh ...

Senate investigators on Tuesday delivered a blistering indictment of CIA interrogation techniques after 9/11, accusing the spy agency of using harsh tactics that broke the law. The report released … ...

In 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. In a secret CIA prison, Ghul confirmed to the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was an important courier.

Former senior CIA officials instrumental in extracting information from al-Qaida prisoners through what most Americans consider to have been torture have published a book defending their conduct. T… ...

The 232-page report released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee came less than a week after President Obama released Bush-era memos that detailed the use of harsh tactics by the CIA.

Allowing CIA agents to write their own rules, and then keep the truth from officials entrusted to supervise them, is dangerous not just for what it means here but for where it could lead.

A CIA operative interviewed for the report said the program thwarted al-Qaida plots to attack the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, derail trains, blow up gas stations and cut the suspension line of a ...

Big Tom was carried out over the Hawaiian island of Oahu in 1965. The military sprayed bacteria to simulate a biological attack on an island compound and to develop tactics for such an attack.