Barack Obama, Counterterrorism | featured news

President Barack Obama may have a string of counterterrorism successes and earned high marks from the public on foreign policy, but neither is likely to help him hold the White House....

President Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot ...

President Obama is announcing new measures Tuesday to beef up airline security after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy ...

U.S. intelligence agencies did not miss a "smoking gun" that could have prevented an alleged attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.

To understand how the suspect in the botched terror attack was able to board a plane, you have to understand how the counterterrorism system that President Obama says failed is supposed to work.