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The United States air force`s nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers carried out its first-ever firing drill over the ...

More prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have joined a growing hunger strike that their lawyers say reflects hopelessness ...

Seven US Marines were killed and seven more wounded when a mortar round exploded while still in its launch tube during ...

The United States said it was flying training missions of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over South Korea, in a clear ...

The United States is increasingly focused on how to secure Syria`s chemical weapons if President Bashar al-Assad falls ...

Sri Lanka is to offer dual citizenship for Sri Lankan expatriates from this year, a statement by the presidential ...

US President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan as CIA director, ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to work on Monday after a month-long absence caused by a series of ...

The US Defense Department has prepared plans for a smaller presence in Afghanistan after the White House insisted on ...

Nearly 50 female cadets were victimized by their training instructors at a Texas Air Force base, including 13 women ...

A four-star general who headed US Africa Command has been demoted amid charges he spent hundreds of thousands of ...

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been put under investigation for alleged "inappropriate" communications with ...

Senior FBI and CIA officials are set to brief top lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about their investigation of an ...

After a convincing re-election victory, President Barack Obama looks set for another four years of reorienting the ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that the Islamic republic will not back down on its ...