The successful assassination of alleged al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative Anwar al-Awlaki was made possible by critical assistance from the Yemeni intelligence service. The U.S. had been ...

Friday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces ...

Here is a look into the life of Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born Muslim scholar and cleric who acted as a spokesperson for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Lived in the United States until age seven ...

Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki described both the Fort Hood Shooter and the Christmas Day bomber as his “students” in a tape released this weekend, according to press reports. This is not surprising ...

While Anwar al-Awlaki's death is a clear win for the U.S.-led air campaign against AQAP, that’s the most Awlaki’s death can accomplish. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are ...

Rajib Karim’s brother, Tehzeeb, met with Awlaki in Yemen in December 2009 – the same month that Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, who Awlaki prepared for his day of terror, tried to blow up a Detroit-bound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, gives a religious lecture in an unknown location in this still image taken from video released by Intelwire.com on September ...

Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico and schooled at U.S. universities. Khan was a Saudi Arabian-American who lived in New York and North Carolina. U.S. intelligence indicates that the top al-Qaida ...

The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki shows that President Obama has “given himself the power to murder U.S. citizens without any due process,” said the Karachi, Pakistan, Express Tribune in an editorial.