Michael V. Hayden identified North Africa and Somalia as places where Qaeda leaders were using partnerships to establish new bases.

Dozens of prisoners being held at Guantánamo Bay are regarded by intelligence agencies as serious risks.

Senior White House officials played a central role in determining whether the C.I.A. could use harsh interrogation techniques, according to newly released documents.

Members of the American Psychological Association have voted to prohibit consultation in the interrogations of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Ron Suskind investigates the Bush administration’s ideological approach to some frightening realities.

More than 200 militants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past two years have been handed over to their countries? intelligence services to be jailed and questioned, U.S. officials said.

Mr. Nosenko was a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the cold war.

In addition to fresh revelations about the W.M.D. megascandal, Ron Suskind offers a complex web of intersecting narratives that manage to show us, in this age of terror, ?the true way of the world.?

A C.I.A. deal with a family of Swiss engineers helped end Libya?s bomb program, reveal Iran?s atomic labors and undo Abdul Qadeer Khan?s nuclear black market, officials said.

A spokesman for the American military denied that it was behind the four missiles, which reportedly struck late Tuesday.