A Pakistani court has acquitted four men accused of taking part in a botched 2010 plot to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square.
CNN's special salute to two New York City vendors who alerted police and helped avert the Times Square bombing.
A businessman who pleaded guilty to inadvertently financing an attempted bombing of Times Square in New York was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation and a $2,000 fine, said prosecutors.
This week the U.S. Justice Department accused an Iranian-American, who allegedly has ties to Iran's elite Quds Force, of attempting to hire a man he thought was a Mexican cartel hitman to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
A Massachusetts man taken into custody in a law enforcement sweep after the Times Square bombing attempt last year was deported to Pakistan Saturday, Customs officials said Sunday.
The United States has adopted numerous measures to make itself safer since al Qaeda slammed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Pakistani security forces have captured one of the former bodyguards of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, intelligence officials told CNN Saturday.
Faisal Shahzad is sentenced to life after trying to blow up a car in New York's Times Square.
A judge in Manhattan sentenced Faisal Shahzad to life in prison Tuesday for the botched Times Square car bombing, as the 31-year-old Pakistani-American defiantly warned in court to "brace yourself, the war with Muslims has just begun."
Prosecutors say Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, carefully selected his location as a highly populated target and intended to strike again if he wasn't caught the first time.
The FBI recreated and detonated the bomb Faisal Shahzad attempted to use for the August Times Square incident.
A Long Island, New York, man charged with facilitating a money transfer related to the May 1 attempted car bombing of New York City's Times Square pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, according to a court official.
Three Pakistani men linked to Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty to the botched Times Square terror attack, were arrested and have confessed before a judge, authorities said Wednesday.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a key leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has been charged for his alleged involvement in the killings of seven U.S. citizens at an American military base in Afghanistan in 2009, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Britain is facing an increasing threat from lone home-grown terrorists, especially among radicalized Muslims in the prison system, a report from a security think tank said Friday.
Two major civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the government's asserted authority to kill U.S. citizens living abroad who are designated as terrorists.
Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty to the botched Times Square terror attack, altered the composition of the bomb he intended to use to avoid being detected by authorities, according to the head of the New York City Police Department.
An Arabic-language TV network shows what it says is a tape of Times Square attempted car bomber Faisal Shahzad.
In an exclusive interview, CNN's Fred Pleitgen speaks to a captured aI Qaeda leader on the Iraqi insurgency.
While lawmakers debated how the Obama administration should prosecute accused terrorists, a pair of failed terrorist plots in the United States fueled political fires on the issue.
The State Department intends to designate the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) as a "foreign terrorist organization" after the suspect charged in the failed Times Square bombing admitted to being trained by the group, two senior officials tell CNN.
Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, entered pleas of guilty Monday in federal court to all 10 counts he was facing.
A federal grand jury in New York on Thursday indicted a suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt on 10 counts, some of which carry a mandatory life sentence.
Two New Jersey men arrested at a New York airport planned to travel to Somalia to "wage violent jihad," and also had expressed a willingness to commit violent acts in the United States, according to prosecutors and a federal criminal complaint.
The man accused of trying to set off a bomb in New York's Times Square is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday.
A Massachusetts man taken into custody in a law enforcement sweep after the Times Square bombing attempt has been ordered back to Pakistan by a federal immigration judge, a court spokeswoman said Friday.
Another person has been taken into custody in Pakistan in connection with the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, a senior intelligence official said Thursday.
Pakistani officials have detained an 11th person in connection with the investigation into the failed May car bombing of New York's Times Square, a Pakistani intelligence source told CNN Wednesday.
Pakistani officials have detained a 10th person in connection with the investigation into the failed May 1 car bombing of New York's Times Square, a Pakistani intelligence source told CNN Tuesday.
U.S. intelligence officials believe the Pakistani Taliban are actively plotting a new terrorist attack.
The father of a man arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square bombing attempt case vehemently denied that his son had anything to do with the plot.
A suspected U.S. drone fired five missiles at a militant hideout in North Waziristan, killing four suspected militants, two Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN Saturday.
Pakistani authorities have arrested the son of a prominent catering company owner in connection with the attempted Times Square bombing case, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Friday.
One of two men arrested in Massachusetts last week had an envelope with attempted Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad's name on it and a cell phone with Shahzad's name and phone number in its memory, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf plans to return to Pakistan and to re-enter politics, he told CNN Thursday.
The Former Pakistani President talks about re-election, Benazir Bhutto, Facebook and the Times Square terror attempt.
Top U.S. security officials met their Pakistani counterparts Wednesday to discuss the attempted Times Square bombing and the prevention of future terrorist attacks.
CIA Director Leon Panetta says the administration's strategy to fight al Qaeda is working.
Faisal Shahzad makes his first court appearance to face a handful of charges. CNN's Susan Candiotti reports.
The man accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square considered other targets in and around New York before the failed attack, an investigator said.
Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square, was frustrated with the state of the Muslim world and sought a way to "fight back."
Three men picked up in New England in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing are being held on immigration charges and could appear in court early next week, a federal law enforcement source said.
CNN's Jim Acosta reports on an FBI raid carried out in connection with the alleged Time Square bomb plot.
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