IRAQ

The United States has killed the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. But in engaging in two costly wars, did the U.S. do much of what bin Laden wanted the U.S. to do?

Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of September 11 because it will take that long for you to make sense of it.

NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchel announced live on air Wednesday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer, urging women to get screened.

On Tuesday, a Defense Department official said additional cuts to military spending would severely impact the defense industry and jeopardize the safety of the United States.

As the December deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq approaches, President Barack Obama is navigating competing pressures from military officials who support keeping American troops in the country and ambivalent Iraqi officials.

It was a disastrous attack that played out live on television 10 years ago, riveting a horrified nation for days.

At least 34 people were killed in separate terrorist attacks in India and Pakistan Wednesday when militants attacked both civilians and state officials. Police have a number of suspects, but so far nothing is confirmed.

Granting Taiwan's politically sensitive request for new F-16 fighter aircraft would merely maintain the island's air power capabilities, not boost them, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N), the plane's manufacturer, said on Tuesday.

According to the latest POLITICO-George Washington University Background Poll, the political environment is very poor for both President Obama and Congressional Democrats.

After a famous 37-year army career that included leading the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus has been sworn in as director of the CIA.

Mitt Romney's jobs plan that he plans to announce Tuesday likely has received some input from advisers of another familiar politician: George W. Bush.

I remember how bizarre the ride down the elevator was – packed like sardines with more than a dozen frightened people. Nerves were on edge – fears of what the attacks meant spiraled. Since we were on the 42nd floor, the elevator doors would periodically open at other floors below us with other people desperate to escape.

As counterterrorism has become the preeminent goal, the military has relied increasingly on covert operations

Tea Party members and other conservatives would like Americans to believe that the United States’ problems started in 2009, but nothing could be further from the truth -- three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.’s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.

Libya's new leadership reaffirmed its commitment to democracy and good governance on Friday as it worked on how to spend billions of dollars released from the frozen assets of fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

A diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks has spurred the Iraqi government to reopen an investigation into allegations that American troops handcuffed and and executed 11 Iraqi civilians -- charges that the U.S. military has categorically denied.

Chris Jeon, a 21 year old college student at UCLA, thought fighting in a war would be a cool to spend his summer vacation. In reality, it's just dumb.

One of the diplomatic cables recently released by Wikileaks offers new evidence that American troops massacred 10 handcuffed Iraqi civilians and destroyed the evidence with an airstrike -- charges that the U.S. military has categorically denied.

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said that Libya's interim government deserves a seat in the United Nations. But it is a premature statement.

Thirty-five prisoners facing terrorism charges escaped through a sewage pipe from a temporary jail in Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul on Thursday before 21 were recaptured, officials said.

Muammar Gaddafi, driven into hiding by his foes, on Thursday urged his supporters to fight on, even as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of war.