U.S. on Terror Offensive Ahead of Election- Report
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The U.S. government begins an  unusually open offensive this week aimed at disrupting  potential terrorist plots before and during the November  election, The Washington Post reported Monday.
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Amid increasing concerns about possible terrorist attacks leading up to the presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin Monday to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, ...
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The government is reviewing hostage-crisis tactics in light of the Russian school attack and will extend its heightened election-year vigilance against terrorism past the January presidential inauguration, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Thursday.
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U.S. offensives in rebel-held Iraqi  cities in recent weeks are part of a major push to wrest them  from insurgents before the end of December to allow local  security forces to oversee elections, U.S. commanders said.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on  Sunday said anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world had  increased and the insurgency in Iraq was worsening,  but the  United States was taking action to improve security ahead of  elections.
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An audiotape attributed to Ayman Zawahiri emerged Friday, stoking fears among some intelligence officials that the terrorist network is preparing a significant strike before the Nov. 2 election.
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The State Department said on Tuesday it had information that "terrorists may be planning to launch new attacks" in Uzbekistan around the time of Uzbek Independence Day celebrations in early September.
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An intelligence report showing an   upsurge in Islamic militancy put the White House on the   defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate over whether   President George W. Bush has made America safer.
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Congress will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a pre-election agenda focusing on national security-related issues.
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Part of a classified intelligence report that says the war in Iraq has increased the terrorist threat against the United States has fueled calls by congressional Democrats for a new direction in the nation's war on terrorism.
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The United States faces a range of threats from North Korean and Iranian missiles to a Sept. 11-scale attack by Islamist militants, inspired by Osama bin Laden and hardened by their experience in Iraq, top U.S. intelligence officials warned Wednesday.
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The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks -- similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend -- designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, U.S. intelligence and...
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A published report says a five-week investigation by US intelligence and law enforcement officials has revealed no direct evidence of a terror plot to disrupt the upcoming US election.
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President Bush suggested Thursday that Democrats don't have the stomach to fight the war on terror, battling back in the election-season clamor over administration intelligence showing terrorism spreading.
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KABUL: The Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies were stepping up plans to disrupt Afghanistanâs first direct presidential election on Oct 9, the head of the US-led coalition said on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 23: Homeland Security official Asa Hutchinson on Thursday said the United States was on heightened alert for terrorist threats, particularly involving aircraft, ahead of the Nov 2 presidential elections.
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US troops have begun a new offensive to hunt Taliban and al-Qaeda militants through the harsh Afghan winter, aiming to sap their strength ahead of planned spring elections, the American military said today.