By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday pushed through a bill that would authorize the Obama administration to supply arms to Syria’s rebels — a strategy the White House has long-resisted out of concern the American weaponry may end up in the hands of terrorists fighting in the Mideast nation. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Edward Felker - Washington Guardian
The Energy Department paid the builder of its planned weapon-grade plutonium reprocessing plant millions of dollars in taxpayer money for unnecessary employee living expenses, government auditors concluded Monday. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press
U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By David Dishneau - Associated Press
Prosecutors say they will accept an Army private’s guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the United States from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Frederic J. Frommer - Associated Press
A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government’s decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Just because Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooting suspect, is behind bars awaiting trial for the November 2009 shooting deaths of 13 doesn’t mean he isn’t making money. Published May 21, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The chairman of the House oversight committee on Friday subpoenaed the senior diplomat who ran the State Department's investigation into the Benghazi attack, saying lawmakers deserve to be able to depose him before he testifies publicly. Published May 17, 2013
By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times
It will take nearly five years for the Afghan Air Force to become fully capable of flying all types of missions, but some of its pilots are testing out the skies today. Published May 17, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
The U.S. military could blind Syria's air defenses -- as it would need to do to establish a 'no-fly' zone over rebel held areas -- without firing a shot, using new and highly secret cyberattack capabilities, according to USA Today. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency made an unannounced visit to Israel on Friday to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A $55 million cigarette-smuggling ring that cheated several East Coast states out of sales tax dollars could be tied to terrorist groups, authorities said. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
An Army sergeant who worked at a combat stress clinic in Iraq but went on a rampage and killed five colleagues in 2009 was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The U.S. military has a new set of orders in its pursuit of the terrorists who are guilty of killing four Americans in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi: Capture or kill. Published May 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Federal agents arrested an Uzbekistan man in Idaho on ties to terrorism, claiming he provided cash and support to a militant group in his country in order to carry out an attack on unspecified targets. Published May 17, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
The man who leads the Pentagon's secret war against al Qaeda and its allies believes it is likely to last another decade or two, and that the current legal basis for it provided by Congress in 2001 continues to be sound, despite the changing character of the enemy. Published May 17, 2013
By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing 15 and wounding several dozen more. Published May 16, 2013
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
The tragedy of Benghazi, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, seemed a cut-and-dried story in the days after a mob attacked the State Department's mission in eastern Libya. Today, the public knows that those early administration pronouncements were false. Published May 16, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Standing in a drizzle that seemed to define his bad week, President Obama called on Congress on Thursday to boost security at U.S. embassies around the globe, seeking to deflect the issue onto lawmakers as the controversy simmers over the deadly terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in September. Published May 16, 2013
By The Washington Times
Evidence about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects' ties to Islamism and Chechen radicals deepened Thursday as multiple news outlets reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claimed the attacks were made on behalf of Islam in retaliation for U.S. foreign policy. Published May 16, 2013
By Miles Yu
China is challenging a key American policy toward Japan: the unambiguous U.S. support of Japan's sovereign rights to the Ryukyu island chain, including the key strategic island of Okinawa. Published May 16, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
The State Department on Thursday added the leader of an al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group to its global terror list, freezing any assets he might have in the U.S. and making it illegal for Americans or U.S.-based companies to do business with him. Published May 16, 2013
