Simmering tensions could see the country partitioned between east and west
The son of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has denied a financial settlement with the government, spoke out in defence of the kingdom Tuesday ahead of the first anniversary of the killing. Khashoggi — a royal family insider turned critic — was killed and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 […]
Officials say locals were recruited while applying for visas to US
The dissident journalist was dismembered after his murder October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul but his remains have yet to be found
Jalaluddin Haqqani became a CIA asset and received a personal visit from US congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped secure arms for the mujahideen
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Gina Haspel has been named by President Trump as new director of the CIA, becoming the first woman to hold the post if confirmed by the Senate
There is always room for more donkeys on Pleasure Island, especially after the new Ghostbusters proton-blast the No Girls Allowed sign.
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The current Spy vs Spy farce summons a sense of déjà vu, with a CIA spook lurking in every nook.
Here are 7 things you need to know about SA’s intelligence services, in the wake of details from spy cables released by Al-Jazeera and The Guardian.
Amnesty International is calling on European countries to come clean on their assistance with CIA operations so that justice can be served.
Many world leaders are criticising the torture methods of the CIA, revealed this week in a US Senate report, and they are calling for legal action.
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US President Barack Obama could have taken action but did not want to weaken the intelligence services.
The Senate report on CIA detention and interrogation found that detainees subjected to torture produced no intelligence or "fabricated information".
Ashraf Ghani has condemned the CIA torture detailed in a US Senate report, saying there can be "no justification for these kinds of actions".
A US Senate report found that the CIA misled the American public about its torture methods after 9/11 and were brutal and pervasive in their actions.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela’s office says it knows nothing of an apology to her by MK military veterans chairperson Kebby Maphatsoe.
DA MP David Maynier insulted Deputy Defence Minister Kebby Maphatsoe in the National Assembly over the latter’s claims against Thuli Madonsela.
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Jeff Radebe has said that Kebby Maphatsoe’s comments about the public protector do not "reflect the views and thinking of government".
A deputy minister has accused public protector Thuli Madonsela of being a spy for the CIA, and said that "we can’t allow people to hijack the ANC".
Terrorism is invoked to justify many things, but current surveillance dwarfs all past behaviour.
Edward Snowden has gone into hiding in Hong Kong after blowing the whistle on a top-secret US spying programme.
A five-year probe into CIA detention centres on Polish territory has ground to a halt, said to be due to a lack of cooperation from US officials.
Frederick Humphries has lived up to his deadly reputation by setting in motion the investigation that brought down David Petraeus as CIA director.
The CIA has reportedly held back data from MI5 and MI6 in retaliation for a UK court disclosing details of a Briton held in Guantánamo Bay.
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/ 24 December 2011
The US Central Intelligence Agency has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants in Pakistan.
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/ 16 November 2010
A US drone strike on an insurgent training centre in militant-riddled North Waziristan killed 15 militants amid a recent surge in the covert attacks.
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/ 19 September 2009
Seven former heads of the CIA urged President Barack Obama on Friday to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners.
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/ 28 January 2009
President Barack Obama is retaining a powerful but controversial US weapon left over from the Bush administration’s battle against terrorism.
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/ 13 January 2009
Iran has arrested four people accused of involvement in a US-financed plot to topple its Islamic system of government, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
The United States is operating ”floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. The US government was on Sunday urged to list the names and whereabouts of all those detained.
Al-Qaeda has been essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and is on the defensive throughout most of the rest of the world, the CIA claimed on Friday. The upbeat assessment comes less than a year after United States intelligence reported that al-Qaeda had rebuilt its strength around the world and was well-placed to launch fresh attacks.
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says in a new book that United States President George Bush ”veered terribly off course” and was not ”open and forthright on Iraq,” a media report said on Tuesday. In the memoir due out next week, McClellan also says Bush relied on ”propaganda” to sell the war.