'YouTube Islamist' Anwar al-Awlaki videos removed in extremism clampdown
Google removes tens of thousands of videos showing sermons and lectures by radical cleric, but experts caution over ad-hoc action
February 2017
Eight-year-old American girl 'killed in Yemen raid approved by Trump'
Anwar al-Awlaki’s daughter, Nawar, may have been fatally shot in intelligence operation on al-Qaida that left at least 14 people, including a US commando, dead
November 2016
How the US justifies drone strikes: targeted killing, secrecy and the law
For decades the US condemned targeted killings, characterizing them as assassinations – but it was unclear what distinguished America’s drone campaign from the killings it historically rejected as unlawful
August 2016
CDs bearing radical cleric's name linked to Detroit man arrested over grenades
Federal authorities would not disclose what the CDs contained, but listed them alongside a stockpile of weapons and ammunition found at the man’s home
March 2015
London man accused of aiding al-Qaida faces life sentence in US after extradition
Ming Quang Pham is charged with several counts stemming from his alleged training and propaganda work with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
February 2015
Why was US citizen Sharif Mobley abandoned in Yemen?
Cori Crider
Global Aid Trust head steps down over charity's alleged links to extremism
January 2015
The road that led from tough Paris estate to radical Yemen training
Killer brothers travelled the route taken by a growing cadre of young men
July 2014
Paul Greengrass lined up for adaptation of Morten Storm's al-Qaida memoir
US diplomats admit contact in Yemen with missing citizen Sharif Mobley
June 2014
Obama's 'drone memo' is finally public. Now show us the library of secret law
Jameel Jaffer
US cited controversial law in decision to kill American citizen by drone
May 2014
US Senate clears way for drone memo author's judicial nomination
David Barron, Harvard law professor who drafted key memo authorizing controversial targeted killing program, poised to become federal judge
Report: secret drone memo to be disclosed by Obama administration
Justice Department reportedly to allow release of partially redacted memo outlining legal justification for targeting US citizens abroad
Lawyers for US citizen missing from Yemeni jail ask UN to intervene
Sharif Mobley's attorneys consider him to be 'disappeared' from central prison in Sana'a, as he has not been seen since 27 February
April 2014
US ordered to release memo in Anwar al-Awlaki drone killing
American citizen Sharif Mobley is missing in Yemen – lawyers
May 2013
Obama to bring US drone programme out from 'legal shadows' of the CIA
Authorization for Use of Military Force: a blank check for war without end
Michael Shank and Matt Southworth
March 2013
Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty
The racism that fuels the 'war on terror'
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald: A new Gallup poll finds a majority of Americans oppose the drone-executions of US citizens on foreign soil. Then why do they support the Awlaki killing?