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Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was attending a small college near Lubbock, Texas. The FBI says he purchased chemicals and bomb components and kept a detailed journal outlining his targets, including former President George W. Bush's home in Dallas and dams in Colorado and California.

Four men were found guilty Monday of plotting to bomb a synagogue and Jewish center in New York City and plotting to shoot military planes with missiles.

The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomb hidden in his underwear last year, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on Thursday waived his right to a speedy trial.

U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they are seeking life in prison for a Pakistani-born American citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square and revealed he had planned a second attack.

The Obama administration on Saturday invoked the state secrets privilege which would kill a lawsuit on behalf of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an alleged terrorist said to be targeted for death or capture under a U.S. government program.

Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked bags, a source said.

Three interrogation tapes of Sept. 11 terror suspect may be only recordings left from secret prison.

Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges Friday against a pregnant American woman, the second woman charged in the so-called ...

The 17-year-old widow of an Islamist militant from the North Caucasus is suspected of blowing herself up in suicide attacks that killed 40 people on the Moscow metro, a Russian law enforcement official said.

An American woman who authorities say called herself "Jihad Jane" is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, accused of conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the U.S. Justice Department said.