(CNN) — Here is some background information about the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen on October 12, 2000. Facts:In October 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers, while in port in Aden, ...

The attack killed 17 American sailors in 2000. The new assignment was the latest change to oversight in the dysfunctional ...

USS Cole was built with armored bulkheads and redundant systems meant to keep her alive under missile attack. But nothing ...

Sailor who survived suicide bombing on the USS Cole is found dead in Florida. Dec. 29, 2009— -- Petty Officer 3rd Class Johann Gokool survived the October 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole — and will seek the death penalty. Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, ...

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi man charged in the attacks of the USS Cole and a French oil tanker in 2000 is finally going before a judge after nearly a decade of confinement, the Associated Press ...

Andrew C. Hall helped change the law to make it possible to sue a state sponsor of terrorism in U.S. federal court. Victims of the 2000 USS Cole bombing received their first round of awards from a ...

The terrorist behind the 2000 attack on the USS Cole was killed in a US airstrike in Yemen last week, President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday. Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi was an al Qaeda ...

Sudan said Thursday it has signed a deal with the families of the victims of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, meeting a key condition for removing the country from Washington's terrorism ...

WASHINGTON — An American airstrike earlier this week targeted an al-Qaida operative accused of involvement in the attack nearly two decades ago on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors, a U.S. military ...

S A N A A, Jan. 11 -- Yemen arrested five people, including two Egyptians, and was questioning them on possible links to the apparent suicide attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer in which 17 sailors were ...

In October 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers, while in port in Aden, Yemen, for refueling. The attack was attributed to al Qaeda and foreshadowed the attack on the United States less ...