Sebastian Rotella

The suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing attempt had purchased a round-trip ticket -- not one-way, as has been widely reported, the Obama administration told congressional aides in a...

British investigators are hunting for signs of whether a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a plane had contact with London's extremist underworld before the failed attack over...

he bungalow-turned-mosque has no sign out front. It sits behind a Firestone tire store and across from a busy Dunkin' Donuts in a working-class neighborhood of modest homes in northern...

The investigation of five American Muslims held on suspicion of links with terrorist groups has focused on a Pakistani militant whom the young men communicated with over the Internet and...

The landmark trial of American and Italian spies accused of abducting an Egyptian cleric in Milan will continue, a judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting a defense bid to end the proceedings....

Neapolitan gangsters such as Raffaele Amato, the fugitive boss arrested Saturday in Marbella, have a name for Spain: La Costa Nostra, or Our Coast. The term plays off Cosa Nostra,...

For better and for worse, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has revolutionized Italy during the past 15 years, toppling walls between government and business, media and ideology, traditional parties and maverick...

Hundreds of migrants were feared drowned in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya on Tuesday, according to migrant advocates and Italian officials, a grim result of a desperate wave of maritime...

Hundreds of migrants were feared drowned in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya on Tuesday, according to migrant advocates and Italian officials, a grim result of a desperate wave of maritime...

The aging turboprop filled with a squad of blue-clad Italian riot police banks over the Mediterranean and descends onto a tiny, wind-swept island that emerges like an apparition from the...