Rowan Scarborough

Family of Marine killed in Afghanistan pushes back against cover-up

The family of a Marine murdered in Afghanistan as he worked out in a gym is accusing the Corps of a cover-up by refusing to turn over documents that would show the dangerous environment inside Forward Operating Base Delhi.

July 27, 2014

Afghan who killed three U.S. Marines in 2012 to serve over 7-year prison sentence

An Afghanistan man has been given a 7-1/2 year prison sentence for murdering three U.S. Marines in a forward operating base in Helmand Province in August 2012.

July 25, 2014

State Department indicates Nouri al-Maliki’s days numbered as Iraq prime minister

The State Department on Thursday all but showed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the door, saying he had been particularly hard to work with.

July 24, 2014

Marine Corps whistleblower lands new Pentagon position

A Marine Corps officer who took on the top brass, and lost, has started a new career path in a legal job under the Pentagon's Joint Staff, not the Corps.

July 23, 2014

Elusive target: U.S. believed Iraq terror mastermind al-Baghdadi killed 3 times

A special intelligence adviser to Army Gen. David H. Petraeus during the 2007 troop surge says the terrorist leader now ruling over large swaths of Iraq and forcing Christians to convert to Islam has long been the most elusive big game for the U.S.

July 20, 2014

Air Force command nominee is 1st woman, non-pilot

The White House has picked the first female general to head the Air Force in the Pacific, which will make her the first non-pilot to command air power in such a large theater of operation.

July 17, 2014

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi formerly a U.S. captive

The U.S. held him captive for a time in 2004 before an unconditional release put him back into Iraq's growing Sunni insurgency.

July 13, 2014

Islamic militants aim to take Baghdad airport

The al Qaeda-inspired terrorist army in Iraq ultimately wants to capture Baghdad International Airport and begin a campaign to destabilize neighboring Jordan, an important U.S. ally, analysts say.

July 9, 2014

ISIL shows increasing strength and structure, takes war where al Qaeda couldn’t

The al Qaeda offshoot terrorist group conquering parts of Iraq is gaining strength thanks to prisoner releases and its social media magnetism for foreign fighter recruits.

July 6, 2014

Indictment of suspect in Benghazi attack Ahmed Abu Khatallah debunks the Obama tale

The Obama administration's just-released criminal complaint against the alleged mastermind of the Benghazi terrorist attacks provides a final contradiction to its own evolving explanations for what happened that day.

July 1, 2014

Air Force secretary gets sick flying with Thunderbirds

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James hitched a ride with the storied Thunderbirds aerial acrobatic team this week — and it didn't go quite as she planned.

June 28, 2014

ISIL terrorists aim to attack U.S., congressional report says

The al Qaeda-linked army now conquering territory in Syria and Iraq ultimately wants its new Islamic state to be a launching pad for attacking the U.S. homeland, says a new congressional report.

June 24, 2014

U.S. troops set stunning record in evading capture by Taliban

On June 30, 2009, the day Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked into captivity, American forces in Afghanistan had not allowed a single service member to fall into enemy hands.

June 22, 2014

For any U.S. airstrike to succeed, the Iraqi army must stand and fight, experts say

As the U.S. masses air power on Iraq's doorstep, analysts are warning that missiles and bombs will have limited impact on Islamic militants unless the Iraqi army stops running and starts fighting.

June 16, 2014

Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq

The last American commander in Iraq recommended to the Obama administration that 23,000 U.S. troops remain to cement the victory, but no deal was ever reached with Baghdad, and all combat forces went home.

June 15, 2014

Taliban 5 in Bergdahl trade have plenty of time to rejoin fight in Afghanistan

The five Taliban commanders freed by the Obama administration will find an Afghanistan in 2015 that is still home to nearly 10,000 American troops and still in a war that likely will go on for years.

June 12, 2014

Pentagon believes Bergdahl was drugged in proof-of-life video

A Pentagon agency has concluded that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl showed definite signs of being drugged by his captors for a pivotal December 2013 video that spurred the Obama administration to trade five Taliban commanders for his release.

June 10, 2014

Bergdahl’s parents got rare access to insiders; data for sympathizer of Gitmo detainees

The Obama administration gave the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl extraordinary insider access to the military's hunt for their son by having them take part in a series of secure video conferences with senior commanders as well as White House and State Department officials.

June 8, 2014

Haqqani Network, Pakistan terror group, grows into worst enemy for U.S.

The Haqqani Network, the terrorist group that the U.S. command in Afghanistan says is its most formidable enemy — worse than the Taliban or al Qaeda — has operated for a dozen years across the border in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area with little to fear other than sporadic drone strikes.

June 5, 2014

POW Bergdahl’s haggard look could have been terrorist ploy to free Taliban

The Haqqani terrorist group kept Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in relatively good health the past five years because it was always its goal to trade him, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

June 3, 2014