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WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. military investigation has found American and Afghan commandos wrongly concluded there were no Pakistani forces in a border area where an air strike killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

In a statement issued later on Thursday, the Pentagon said "inadequate coordination by U.S. and Pakistani military ...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday solemnly watched as US armed forces colors lowered in Iraq last week were returned to American soil in a ceremony marking the end of the near nine-year war.

Obama, the US commander-in-chief, traveled to Joint Base Andrews outside Washington to watch the colors along with 26 air force, navy and army service members in dress ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile on its eastern coast on Monday, the day its leader Kim Jong-il's death was announced, South Korean media reported.

An unnamed South Korean official was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying he did not believe the launch was linked to the announcement of Kim's death.

"This is something that ...

Lawmakers voted to elevate the head of the National Guard to a seat on the military's top council, granting unprecedented status to the country's part-time militia.

The proposed change was strongly opposed by all the chiefs of the armed services and the Pentagon's civilian leadership, who voiced concerns about creating possible friction and confusion in the Joint ...

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived Thursday in "key ally" Turkey from Iraq, for an official visit that will focus on the developments in the Middle East, especially Syria.

"It's important for us to work closely with Turkey at this critical time," Panetta told reporters shortly before his arrival in Ankara for the two-day visit.

The discussions between Panetta ...

The US military's F-35 fighter program, already suffering repeated delays, faces a spate of technical problems that the Pentagon expects will slow the pace of production, officials said Wednesday.

The latest troubling revelations for the Joint Strike Fighter -- the most expensive weapons program in history -- emerged from a leaked internal Pentagon report that outlines an array of problems exposed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense cuts that begin in the 2012 budget will ultimately cost up to 800,000 jobs, and additional spending reductions could push that figure to 1.5 million over the next decade, a top Republican lawmaker testified on Tuesday.

Representative Buck McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said his panel estimated the initial $489 billion in ...

From an editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

You don't think of the nuclear warheads on top of Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles as going bad. But in fact, the weapons, located in hardened silos through the American West, do have an expiration date: 2091.In a 2006 report to Congress, an independent scientific advisory group estimated that's about ...

The most senior woman to have ever served at the Pentagon, Michele Flournoy, plans to step down from her policy post to spend more time with her family, officials said Monday.

Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, "has today announced her intention to step down and return to private life," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a statement.

Flournoy, who ...

Mauritania on Sunday urged that no ransom be paid for European hostages held in the Sahel region by Al-Qaeda's North African wing, at a meeting of European and African defence ministers.

Twelve Europeans, six of them French, are now being held hostage in the arid and poor region south of the Sahara by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM ...