China summons US ambassador to protest ship near reef
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and ROBERT BURNS China summoned the American ambassador to protest the U.S. Navy’s sailing of a warship close to one of China’s artificial islands in the South…
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Iraq’s stalemate in Ramadi raises doubts about US strategy
By ROBERT BURNS A summer of stalemate in the effort to reclaim the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi, despite U.S.-backed Iraqi troops vastly outnumbering Islamic State fighters, calls into question…
Bin Laden papers include loving notes, terrorist application
By CONNIE CASS and ROBERT BURNS During his years in hiding, Osama bin Laden urged followers to concentrate on attacking Americans and wrote bittersweet letters to one of his wives…
Ex-commander: Nukes on high alert are vulnerable to error
By ROBERT BURNS A former commander of U.S. nuclear forces is leading a call for taking U.S. and Russian nuclear missiles off high alert, arguing that keeping them less ready…
Iraqi leader asks US for more air power, weaponry
By ROBERT BURNS Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that his army is taking the offensive against the Islamic State group but needs…