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9/11

Pedestrians cross Enghelab Square in Tehran, near a billboard showing Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, in the Iranian capital on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2026
The Indo-Pacific price of a hasty war with Tehran
The allies are not abandoning the U.S.; they are recoiling from a war that lacks a defined strategy.
Tom Riches, whose firefighter brother was killed when the Trade Centers fell, and his son Tommy, 10, at the family home in Brooklyn on Sept. 5.
WORLD / Society
Sep 11, 2025
A new 9/11 generation: These children promise to never forget
They have no memory of the Sept. 11 attacks but are increasingly shouldering the responsibility to carry it on.
The World Trade Center's South Tower (left) and the North Tower burn after al-Qaida terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the buildings in New York City on
Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died in the incident, including 24 Japanese nationals. 

REUTERS
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 18, 2024
The forgotten impact of 9/11 on Japan
Though an ocean away, 9/11 was a wake up call to the Japanese people that the 21st century would not be an era of everlasting peace.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump stand together alongside other high-profile politicians during a Sept. 11 memorial service in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 12, 2024
A temporary truce as Harris, Trump and Biden mark 9/11
It is a sign of how traumatic 9/11 is as a national memory that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would feel compelled to set aside their differences to mark the day.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003.
WORLD
Aug 3, 2024
Pentagon chief revokes plea deals with three 9/11 suspects
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals agreed to in recent days with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accomplices.
An Israeli man attends a day of prayer in the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 19 where attendees called for the safe return of hostages taken by Hamas militants earlier in the month.?
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2023
Israel¡¯s own 9/11 moment
Israel needs to prepare now for when the fighting stops. Will it look to the Palestinian Authority to administer Gaza? What role will the U.N. play?
The remains of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 12, 2001
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2023
U.S. plea proposal for 9/11 suspects splits victims¡¯ relatives
Some say a deal without trial means the whole truth might be lost ¡ª others say that every year the trial is delayed, there are fewer left to see justice.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 2, 2022
Al-Qaida leader¡¯s killing highlights Afghanistan¡¯s renewed role as terrorist haven
The death of Ayman al-Zawahri has spotlighted the extent to which the group seems to once again be operating freely in the Taliban-ruled country following the U.S. withdrawal.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 2, 2022
Ayman al-Zawahri: From Cairo physician to al-Qaida leader
The first time the world heard of him was when he stood in a courtroom cage after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat in 1981.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 2, 2022
Biden says U.S. strike in Kabul killed a planner of 9/11 attacks
The drone strike had been planned for weeks, according to a senior administration official, and included a scale model of al-Zawahri¡¯s house in Kabul.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 12, 2021
At 9/11 ceremonies, moments of silence, tributes and tears
Even as time has passed, the people who gathered across the U.S. and the globe said the wounds from 9/11 have remained fresh.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 12, 2021
Kasumi Abe: ¡®We have to tell younger generations what happened here¡¯
On the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Japanese journalist Kasumi Abe reflects on her love for the city she now calls home.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 11, 2021
What does it mean to ¡®never forget¡¯?
For all its slogan-like simplicity, these twinned words seem freighted with the complexities of guilt, obligation and even presumption ¡ª as if we could ever forget.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2021
20 years on, the ¡®war on terror¡¯ grinds along with no end in sight
The ¡®war on terror¡¯ waxes and wanes, largely in the shadows and out of the headlines ¡ª less an epochal clash than a low-grade condition and one that flares up occasionally.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Perspectives
Sep 11, 2021
What a Japanese diplomat learned from 9/11
The terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, diverted Washington¡¯s attention away from China.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 22, 2021
Private sector key to the success of Japan¡¯s digital agency
In order to breathe life into the agency, it is necessary to break away from longstanding bureaucratic practices.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2021
The Guantanamo nightmare has to end
U.S. President Joe Biden¡¯s avowed intention to close the Guantanamo detention camp offers hope to end an embarrassing episode in the most recent history of the United States.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2018
New York scientists use newly developed DNA tools to put names to unidentified 9/11 victims
New DNA analysis techniques are helping identify more victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, scientists in the office of New York City¡¯s chief medical examiner said Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 20, 2018
Ex-Texas 911 operator jailed for hanging up on thousands of emergency calls
A former emergency operator in Texas was convicted of hanging up on thousands of 911 calls and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of probation, prosecutors said.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2017
9/11 victims¡¯ kin sue Saudi Arabia in Manhattan court over attacks
Hundreds of relatives of individuals killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have sued Saudi Arabia in U.S. court, seeking to take advantage of a law passed by Congress last year that allows victims of such attacks on U.S. soil to sue state sponsors.

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