On September 30, 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American born in New Mexico, was killed by an American drone in Yemen. A little less than ten years earlier, he was living in Virginia, taking classes at ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Jeffrey Goldberg, who calls himself a “warmongering neocon hawk,” told me that ...

Following Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the Obama administration released a 2010 Justice Department memo signing off on killing Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen, without a trial. By Charlie ...

Could Anwar al-Awlaki be hiding in plain sight in Yemen? He certainly knows when and how to make an appearance. On Monday, Nov. 8, the Yemeni-American cleric released a video rallying his followers to ...

Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, 38, Asif Ahmed Salim, 38, and Sultane Room Salim, 43, pleaded guilty this week to one count of concealment of financing of terrorism for their roles in concealing the ...

Court will not stop administration from trying to assasisnate Al Qaeda member. Dec. 7, 2010 -- In a victory for the Obama administration, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit today challenging the ...

One more reason to tune out the histrionic whining over USAID: A recently resurfaced record reportedly shows that it paid for Anwar al-Awlaki — yes, that al-Awlaki, the terrorist preacher and ...

Before his 2011 assassination by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, the U.S. born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki lived in Falls Church, Va., under close surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A ...

Four years ago, an American drone strike in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born imam. It was a targeted attack; more than a year earlier, the Obama administration and the CIA had placed ...

In case after case, ghost of Anwar al-Awlaki haunts counterterrorism officials. This October 2008, file photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Muhammad ud-Deen/AP Photo — -- Five years ago ...

Minh Quang Pham was accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch. By Ed Shanahan Following Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the Obama ...