Topic: United States

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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: ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will begin talking publicly next month about the results of a U.S. strategic review undertaken this year to guide the Pentagon as it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.Discussion of the strategy ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Foreign sales of U.S. weapons rose to $34.8 billion in fiscal year 2011 and should hover around $30 billion this year, the Pentagon said on Monday.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Pentagon agency that oversees foreign arms sales, said ...

The U.S. Senate late Thursday approved a $662 billion defense authorization bill that excludes two proposed anti-gay amendmentsThe Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate late Thursday overwhelmingly (93-7) approved a $662 billion defense authorization bill that excludes two proposed anti-gay amendments. The amendments, which were ...

A US army veteran wounded in the Iraq war who danced his way to fame in a television contest was hailed as a hero Thursday when he paid a visit to the Pentagon.JR Martinez, who suffered severe burns in a roadside bombing, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. weapons makers told investors this week they are doing all they can to prepare for leaner and more uncertain U.S. defense budgets, including redoubling their efforts to cut costs, drum up export sales and sell more goods ...