Five men, including a senior al Qaeda leader, were charged with planning and attempting last September’s failed suicide attacks on the New York City subway system Wednesday.

Adnan El Shukrijumah, Adis Medunjanin, Abid Naseer, Tariq Ur Rehman, and a man known as “Ahmad” were charged with ten counts, which include conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring and attempting to commit an act of terrorism across national boundaries, conspiring to provide and providing material support to al Qaeda and conspiring to commit murder abroad.

Five American men were convicted of terror-related charges in Pakistani court Thursday and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The five citizens, Umar Chaudhry, Ramy Zamzam, Ahmad A. Minni, Waqar Khan and Aman Hassan Yemer, all attended the same mosque in Fairfax, Va., and were arrested in December after their families reported them missing. At the time, their ages ranged from 18 to 24.

The change in command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan from General Stanley McChrystal to General David Petraeus, was smooth. If McChrystal was a top military commander, Petraeus, his boss, was the architect of the counter-insurgency strategy that turned the war around in Iraq, when nobody, including then Senator Barack Obama believed it was possible.

Federal and local authorities arrested two New Jersey men at Kennedy International Airport late Saturday on charges they were traveling to Somalia to join an Islamic extremist group that wants to kill Americans.

The two men were arrested separately before they could board their respective flights to Egypt, where they would board another flight that would take them to Somalia. Authorities identified the two men as Mohamed Haoud Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24.

President Barack Obama unveiled his National Security Strategy Thursday, May 27, revealing a change in approach from that of his predecessor, President George W. Bush.

The 52-page document, which describes America as a country “hardened by war” and “disciplined by a devastating economic crisis,” describes a security outline that hearkens back to an old-world order based on international organizations and diplomatic initiatives.

After the failure to detect three terrorist plots — two failed and one successful — and political missteps that undermined his ability to communicate with the White House Dennis C. Blair resigned as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). His resignation becomes effective this coming Friday, May 28.

During an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, May 9, Attorney General Eric Holder said he is seeking the implementation of a law that allows terrorism suspects to be questioned at length without informing them of their Miranda rights.

Faisal Shahzad, the U.S. citizen who attempted to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square last week was trained and funded by a Pakistani militant group that worked closely with Al Qaeda to plot attacks against the U.S., top Obama administration officials said Sunday.

Federal agents and New York police detectives arrested Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, who admits to be author of the New York City car-bomb terrorist attempt.

President Barack Obama says the 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit that concluded in Washington yesterday is an important step toward shared effective leadership in securing vulnerable nuclear materials over the next four years.