WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. General David Petraeus said on Thursday it was "disturbing" that a manufacturer had embossed biblical citations on rifle scopes sent to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the firm announced it would voluntarily halt the practice. "This is a big concern to the Army and the Marine Corps, who have contracted for these particular sites," said Petraeus, the ...

The United States and Britain have agreed to finance a special counterterrorism unit in Yemen as US President Barack Obama for the first time blamed an Al-Qaeda branch in that Arab country for attacking a US airliner. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Obama also want to see a bigger peacekeeping force in Somalia to tackle violent radicalism in the ...

President Barack Obama was briefed by his top anti-terrorism aide on Saturday on "productive" talks between senior US General David Petraeus and leaders in Yemen, a senior US official said. Petraeus, the regional US military commander, met Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the local Saba news agency said, amid intensifying concern over the presence in Yemen of Al-Qaeda cells blamed ...

US regional military commander General David Petraeus on Wednesday called Washington's fight against terrorism in Afghanistan "successful," even if Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has not been captured. "There has always been a significant focus of resources to get Bin Laden, and while he hasn't been caught, the effort has been successful in the overall fight against terrorism ...