CIA still investigating killing of Khashoggi
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the Trump administration’s handling of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday, stressing Saudi Arabia’s importance...
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Romania and Lithuania knowingly hosted secret CIA jails
Lithuania and Romania hosted secret CIA prisons a decade ago and their authorities were aware that detainees were held there illegally, the European Court of...
CIA’s Pompeo brings insider’s touch to secretary of state role
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, if confirmed as the next secretary of state, would bring a number of assets to his new role as the top...
CIA director expects Russia will try to target US midterms
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Russia will target US midterm elections later this year as part of the Kremlin’s attempt to influence domestic politics across...
Turkey seeks arrest of ex-CIA officer over suspected coup links
Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a former officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over suspected links to last year’s failed...
Trump calls ‘ridiculous’ reports Russia helped him in U.S. election – Update 1(Adds comments on intelligence briefing)
By Doina Chiacu and Howard Schneider U.S. President-elect Donald Trump rejected as “ridiculous” reported U.S. intelligence findings that Russia intervened in the presidential election...
Trump taps Sessions for AG, Pompeo for CIA – transition official
US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three senior leaders of his national security and law enforcement teams, choosing Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike...
Disenchanted Republicans to float ex-CIA officer to oppose Trump -reports
Republicans disenchanted with Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate plan to put forth a conservative alternative, former top House Republican aide and former CIA...
CIA director says Islamic State still serious threat (Updated)
Islamic State‘s “terrorism capacity and global reach” have not been reduced, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency said on Thursday, adding that the group...
CIA chief expects release of 9/11 documents to clear Saudi Arabia
CIA chief John Brennan said on Sunday he expects 28 classified pages of a U.S. congressional report into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the...
Car bomb kills 33 in Afghanistan near US base
A suicide car bomb on Sunday killed 33 people and wounded 10 in southeastern Afghanistan, close to a US base that was once used by...
Torture and the CIA: time to move on?
By Gwynne Dyer WHEN SOMEBODY says it is time to move on, it means there is something deeply embarrassing that they don’t want to discuss...
China urges US to ‘correct ways’ after torture report
By Ben Blanchard China urged the United States on Wednesday to “correct its ways”, after the US Senate said in a report the CIA misled...
Speaking ‘truth to stupid’
By Maria-Christina Doulami WITH The Newsroom Season 3 having just begun and Kill the Messenger hitting the big screens recently, journalism returns to centre stage....
Poland ‘helped in CIA rendition’
By Christian Lowe The CIA ran a secret jail on Polish soil, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday, piling pressure on Poland,...
Obama presses Putin over Ukraine
By Jeff Mason and Arshad Mohammed US President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putinin a tense phone call on Monday that Moscow would face further costs for its actions in Ukraine and should...
Secret US Senate report details CIA abuse
By Carey Gillam The Central Intelligence Agency misled the US government and public for years about aspects of its brutal interrogation programme, concealing details about harsh treatment of detainees...
US senator says CIA spied on senate panel
By Doina Chiacu and Patricia Zengerle A dispute between the Central Intelligence Agency and a US Senate committee that oversees it burst into the open on Tuesday when a...
CIA acknowledges its mysterious Area 51 test site for first time
By Steve Gorman National security scholars at George Washington University have some good news and bad news for UFO buffs – the U.S. government has...
Ex-CIA man says exposed U.S. spy scheme for better world
By Mark Hosenball and Richard Cowan A former CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency revealed in an interview published...