'US confronted Pak on Mullah Omar's Karachi hospitalisation'

The United States long-suspected Pakistan of sheltering Mullah Omar and even confronted then President Asif Ali Zardari in 2011 over intelligence inputs that the one-eyed Taliban supremo was being......

How Lashkar, ISI tried to target Modi's swearing-in

'Who in Pakistan was intending to carry out one of the most grievous acts of international terrorism just a few months ago?' Former CIA official Bruce Riedel reveals how the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and......

Obama names Hagel, Brennan to lead Pentagon, CIA

United States President Barack Obama on Monday named former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defence secretary, and also nominated his counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, who was......

Petraeus failed to impart his stamp on the CIA

The case brings out continuing deficiencies in the functioning of the counter-intelligence divisions of the CIA and the FBI, writes security expert B Raman In the history of the USA's Central......