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US Defence Secretary Hagel to resign: Officials

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will resign on Monday, senior officials told reporters, as the White House faced ...

Pentagon no. 2 to step down

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will step down in December, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Defense ...

Sopranos' star James Gandolfini dies

Emmy award-winning US actor James Gandolfini, the star of the long-running mafia drama The Sopranos, has died at the ...

RI, Vietnam share views on geopolitical challenges

Indonesian Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung delivered speeches at a ...

US focused on Syria`s chemical arms after Assad

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

Obama to nominate John Brennan as CIA director

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

Hillary Clinton to be back at work Monday

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

US draws plans for up to 9,000 troops in Afghanistan

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

50 US female cadets abused by miltary trainers

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

US general demoted over 5-star hotel spending

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

Pentagon investigates top US commander in Afghanistan

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

Investigators to brief congress on Petraeus

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

With new term, Obama doubles down on Asia

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

Iran vows not to back down on "peaceful" nuclear program

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

Female car bomber kills 12 in Kabul

A female suicide car bomber attacked a van in Kabul on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including eight South Africans, in ...