NATO-led forces shot and killed two Afghan policemen and wounded three others at a checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan. When Afghan police, funded and trained by NATO forces to fight a ten-year long insurgency in Afghanistan, asked a convoy of NATO soldiers...
An assembly of tribal elders in Afghanistan has agreed to a long-term security deal with the U.S. but is imposing some conditions, including an end to night raid operations and a demand to hand over Afghan detainees in U.S. custody. The traditional council of 2,000...
Kenya's government has urgently requestly that the United States assist them in their war and invasion of southern Somalia. Administration officials are considering providing intelligence and logistical support to Kenya's struggling military. Kenya invaded southern...
Libya's United Nations envoy Mohammed Abdel Rahman Shalgam criticized Qatar on Friday of providing money and weapons to Islamist groups within the country. "There are facts on the ground, they (Qatar) give money to some parties, the Islamist parties. They give money...
The approximately 100 U.S. combat soldiers that President Obama sent to Uganda last month are likely to remain deployed until the leader of the guerrilla group the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) is captured or killed, according to the top U.S. commander for Africa. The...
In another example of unwarranted military profligacy, the U.S. Army has successfully tested a secret hypersonic weapon prototype, traveling at a relatively flat trajectory at about give times the speed of sound (3,805 mph). The new technological capability to kill...
Russian warships are on route to Syrian territorial waters in a move that sends a clear message from Moscow that they would not allow any foreign intervention into Syria's civil unrest. Syria's President Bashar al Assad, a close ally of Russia's, has been violently...
For months the Obama administration has warned that any serious cuts to the defense budget would be harmful to national security, but any viable cuts would be minuscule. The Pentagon expected to receive roughly $7 trillion over the next decade. Of that, it has already...
Any preemptive Israeli attack on Iran for its alleged nuclear weapons program would target civilian infrastructure as well as its nuclear facilities, according to a report in The Daily Beast. Anonymous U.S. intelligence officials told The Daily Beast that and Israeli...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has had to back down from statements he made on U.S. television on Tuesday that made him seem to empathize with Iran's alleged quest for nuclear weapons. On PBS's Charlie Rose show, when asked if he would "want a nuclear weapon"...
