Mark Hosenball

Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, plans to raise the case of a Hamas leader murdered by an apparent hit squad in Dubai when he meets next week in Brussels with Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman.

Senior Obama administration officials acknowledged on Thursday that a new report on Iran's nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency offers a mixed assessment of where Iran's theocratic regime is headed with its nuclear program.

Britain's Foreign Office announced that it has asked for a meeting tomorrow with Israel's ambassador to the U.K. to discuss a delicate subject: the growing international uproar over the mysterious team of assassins that used fraudulent British passports last month in a plot to murder a senior Hamas official.Dubai officials have released pictures, names, and passport numbers of 11 foreigners they say were members of a hit squad that killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room on Jan. 19.

The capture last week of Mullah Baradar Akhund, the Taliban's No. 2 leader, is expected to spark a leadership reshuffle within the organization's Afghan branch. One jihadist who could step up to take Baradar's place: Mullah Abdul Qayam Zakir, a ruthless former Guantánamo detainee released back to Afghanistan by the Bush administration.

The British government is investigating how six members of an alleged hit squad obtained expertly forged U.K. passports used in a plot to murder a prominent Hamas leader.

Given that the Internet has become one of the world's most important sources of news and social discourse, it's probably appropriate, if not laudable, that the Department of Homeland Security should be closely monitoring the Web.

Comic-book superhero Captain America may have vanquished some of the world's worst villains, but he's been humbled by conservative tea-party crusaders. According to a story pulled together by Yahoo News, the creative chief at Marvel Comics apologized to the noisy populist movement for a recent Captain America storyline about antigovernment militia groups.

U.S. officials say that a second major leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in January─possibly in the same U.S. missile strike that officials are increasingly confident killed Pakistan's Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud.

After a key Republican withdrew a sheaf of secret "holds" he had placed on Obama administration appointees, the Senate has confirmed nominees to two key intelligence posts.

A former senior CIA officer is criticizing the office of National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair for publicly denouncing a British court's decision to release long-censored information about alleged U.S. mistreatment of a suspected terrorist.

Officials of the Obama administration and key European allies say that, so far, they have been underwhelmed by the latest round of rhetoric and threats from Iranian leaders, who rallied a large crowd in Tehran on Thursday to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

The office of the Obama administration's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, late on Wednesday denounced a British court decision that earlier in the day made public allegations that U.K.

U.S. intelligence officials interrogating a British terror suspect subjected him to "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment in violation of international legal standards, according to a British court ruling.

Hakimullah Mehsud, reputed leader of Taliban forces in Pakistan, evidently enjoys attention. After he allegedly succeeded fellow tribesman Baitullah Mehsud (no relation) as Pakistani Taliban leader last year─Baitullah was reportedly killed by a missile fired from a U.S.-operated drone─Hakimullah featured in several video messages, now available on YouTube.

If ever there were a time for Iranian chest-thumping, it would be now. The 31st anniversary of the regime's Islamic Revolution is less than a week away, but authorities anticipate that the celebrations will be marred by a new round of antigovernment protests led by opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Maybe it's time to stop some of the name-calling over counterterrorism policy and start checking the facts. As the debate over Obama administration counterterrorism policies has heated up in the wake of the failed Christmas Day underpants airplane bombing, prominent Republicans, ranging from leading senators to a former press secretary for George W.

Maybe it's time to stop some of the name-calling over counterterrorism policy and start checking the facts. As the debate over Obama administration counterterrorism policies has heated up in the wake of the failed Christmas Day underpants airplane bombing, prominent Republicans, ranging from leading senators to a former press secretary for George W.

While they have publicly floated suggestions that Tehran is interested in a possible swap of American hikers imprisoned in Iran for Iranian citizens held by the U.S. and its allies, Iranian leaders have done little to nothing through diplomatic channels to move the prisoner issue forward, according to the State Department.

The director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, shocked Washington last week when he told a congressional committee that U.S. spy agencies have the authority to assassinate American citizens abroad who are believed to be involved in terrorism. But he suggested that intel officials would have to follow special rules to do so: "If … we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that," he told the House intelligence committee.

President Obama and senior advisers last month considered—and rejected—the notion that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the accused Christmas Day underpants bomber, should be handed over to the U.S. military for interrogation and detention, NEWSWEEK has learned.

Capitol Hill Republicans are accusing the White House of misusing classified information to score political points in the debate over how the U.S. government should handle captured terrorist suspects.

The country's top spy has begun to acknowledge publicly that U.S. intelligence agencies are changing their beliefs about Iran's secret efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

The White House has been calling reporters' attention to a Politico story that accuses Republicans of being hypocritical for criticizing the Obama administration's treatment of accused Christmas Day underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

A single intelligence community database operated by the CIA, known by the code name "Hercules," held all the "bits and pieces" of intelligence that White House officials believe could have led U.S. authorities to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before last Dec. 25, according to current and former counterterrorism officials.

Has the United States succeeded in killing Pakistan's brutal Taliban leader or not? Numerous press accounts suggest that Hakimullah Mehsud─a top U.S. target─likely died in a bombing attack some time in January.

With a nudge from the White House, the Justice Department is now scrambling to find a new site to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators.

Political support appears be collapsing on every front for the Obama administration's plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other accused 9/11 co-conspirators in federal court in New York City.

The Washington academic program that Louisiana telephone-tampering suspect Stanley Dai helped to manage was part of an "affirmative action" initiative by U.S. intelligence agencies to recruit more female and minority spies—an irony in light of the strong "movement conservative" views that Dai and his codefendants in the bizarre New Orleans criminal investigation have espoused.

NEWSWEEK's Mark Hosenball reports on the Declassified blog: One of four men arrested Tuesday for attempting to interfere with the telephones at the New Orleans office of Sen.

One of four men arrested on Tuesday for attempting to interfere with the telephones at the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu previously worked for a U.S. intelligence-funded program to train would-be American spies, Declassified has learned.