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Schumer, Boxer to back Hagel for Pentagon's job
Chuck Hagel secured the backing of two of the staunchest pro-Israel Senate Democrats in a clear boost to the Republican's prospects of becoming ...
Gun group chief says industry didn't cause Newtown
A trade show expected to draw tens of thousands of gun enthusiasts and manufacturers opened Tuesday on the Las Vegas Strip with the head of an ...
Obama signs bill expanding State Dept. rewards
President Barack Obama signed legislation into law Tuesday expanding the State Department's Rewards for Justice program aimed at capturing the world's ...
Cost-cut talk is long on emotion, short on details
In the heated talk about deep spending cuts that will dominate Congress in the coming weeks, one thing is likely to be in short supply: details.
Suicides in military rise, even as combat lessens
For U.S. troops, less combat is not translating to less stress. Members of the military committed suicide at a record pace in 2012 — almost one per ...
Panetta: US helping French forces with intel
The U.S. is already providing intelligence-gathering assistance to the French in their assault on Islamist extremists in Mali, Defense Secretary Leon ...
Senate GOP leader optimistic about Afghanistan
The United States should keep a residual force of about 10,000 in Afghanistan after combat forces leave at the end of 2014, the Senate Republican ...
Somali witnesses to failed rescue describe mayhem
The night of mayhem and death started with the sound of helicopters above pitch-black fields. When it was over, the French intelligence agent who had ...
Fateful B-52 flight revealed deadly weakness
Flying low over snowy terrain on a Cold War training mission, Lt. Col. Dan Bulli's massive B-52 bomber hit turbulence that shook the plane so ...
Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels
The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaida-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed ...
Mississippi rock blasting puts river in ship shape
Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi ...
Obama's 2nd inauguration smaller, yet still grand
President Barack Obama's second inauguration is shaping up as a high-energy celebration smaller than his first milestone swearing-in, yet still ...
Air Force memo outlines sweeping budget cuts
Air Force leaders will cut flying hours by nearly 20 percent and prepare for a possible end to all noncombat or noncritical flights from late July ...
Al-Qaida presence in Mali, Yemen and Afghanistan
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met Friday to discuss bringing down the curtain in the long Afghan war. As U.S.
Obama, Karzai agree: It's time to wind down war
Uneasy allies, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai demonstrated Friday they could agree on one big idea: After 11 years of war, ...
Va. ex-Marine who shot at Pentagon gets 25 years
An ex-Marine convicted of firing shots at the Pentagon and other military targets in 2010 was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison, despite a recent ...
THE RESET: Obama has 'more flexibility' now to act
Mitt Romney was going to "Etch A Sketch" his way to the White House. We saw how that worked out. But President Obama had some sound bites to regret, ...
Pentagon moving to freeze hiring, delay contracts
The Pentagon will begin taking steps to freeze civilian hiring, delay some contract awards and curtail some maintenance to prepare for drastic budget ...
Hawaii-based US Navy sub damaged in Persian Gulf
A Pearl Harbor-based submarine was damaged early Thursday when one of its periscopes struck an unidentified vessel in the Persian Gulf, the U.S.
US urges allies Japan, SKorea to mend ties
A high-level U.S. delegation will urge key allies Japan and South Korea to mend strained ties that have hurt security cooperation. It will also likely ...
US troop plan in Afghanistan follows Iraq playbook
It's the same debate, the same numbers and practically the same plan, but the White House is working harder to keep troops in Afghanistan than it did ...
Defense nominee Hagel lays out stand on Iran
President Barack Obama's pick for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, is meeting with senior Pentagon staff to try to set the record straight about his ...
US may leave no troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014
The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands ...
Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib, other sites receive $5M
A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison has paid $5.