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Military families worried by US fiscal cliff cuts
Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the ...
Afghan suicide bomber kills US soldier, 2 Afghans
A Taliban suicide car bomber killed one American soldier and two Afghan civilians Thursday near a U.S. military base shortly after the visiting U.S.
Extremists among Syrian rebels who seized base
Syrian rebels including Islamic extremists took full control of a sprawling military base Tuesday after a bloody two-day battle that killed 35 ...
Chemical weapons risk: Syrian missiles and shells
Growing fear that civil war in Syria could unleash the world's first use of chemical weapons in nearly three decades is based on two grim scenarios ...
With war shifting, US, Russia talk Syria's future
Diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war moved forward Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joining Russia's foreign ...
NATO moves toward deployment on Syria border
As fears grow in the West that Syrian President Bashar Assad will unleash chemical weapons as an act of desperation, NATO moved forward Thursday with ...
US weighing military options if Syria uses WMD
The White House and its allies are weighing military options to secure Syria's chemical and biological weapons, after U.S. intelligence reports show ...
Obama hails 20-year effort to secure nukes
Hailing two decades of efforts to help the former Soviet Union secure nuclear weapons stockpiles, President Barack Obama said Monday that the world ...