Defense chief prepares a 2-front balancing act
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta heads to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he considers price gouging for transport of war supplies to Afghanistan and to coax...
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Israel’s use of bombs a possible violation
The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired U.S.-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight...
Rumsfeld urged `major’ Iraq shift
Two days before he resigned last month as defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was...
U.S. rushes order for precision bombs to Israel
The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American...
General finds senior Marines lax in Haditha killings probe
The second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq has concluded that some senior Marine officers were negligent in failing to investigate more aggressively the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last...
U.S. reviews Guantanamo jail security
Three detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had tried to conceal themselves in their cells to prevent guards from seeing them commit suicide, an official said...
British memo outlines plan to cut troop levels in 2006
A confidential British military assessment examines the possibility of slashing troop strength in Iraq by the end of next year--to 3,000 from about 8,500 now--in a memo leaked to the...
17 GIs feared killed in Afghanistan
The apparent downing of a military helicopter with 17 Americans aboard in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday comes at a time of growing insecurity here. For the first time since the...
U.S. believes North Korea can put nuclear warheads on missiles
The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea has mastered the technology for arming its missiles with nuclear warheads, an assessment that,...
CLINTON CHINA POLICY FACING A TOUGH TEST
President Clinton's goal of building better ties with China at a summit meeting next month have been thrown into jeopardy by congressional Republicans bent on investigating allegations that campaign contributions...