Obama: Guantanamo Bay undermines security, must be closed
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to “once and for all” close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and transfer the most…
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Analysis: Echoes of 1991 Gulf War linger on in Mideast
By JON GAMBRELL The 1991 Gulf War saw only 100 hours of ground fighting as U.S. forces entered Kuwait to end the Iraqi occupation but echoes of that conflict have…
Pentagon says US bombed IS training camp in Libya
By ROBERT BURNS and MAGGIE MICHAEL American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative…
Obama administration opening 2-front campaign on Syria
By MATTHEW LEE The Obama administration opened a two-front campaign on Syria on Thursday with a push to end one war there and step up another. The United States, Russia…
Obama seeks cybersecurity boost to replace ‘ancient’ tech
By TAMI ABDOLLAH President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is asking Congress for $3.1 billion to update the government’s archaic computer systems to protect them from cyberattacks as part of…
Iran says it flew drone over US aircraft carrier
By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Iran flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier and took “precise” photographs of it as part of an ongoing naval drill, state…
US Navy sailors released unharmed by Iran in less than a day
By ADAM SCHRECK and ALI AKBAR DAREINI It turned out to be the international crisis that wasn’t. Less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were detained in Iran…
North Korea says it tested H-bomb to widespread skepticism
By FOSTER KLUG South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self-proclaimed “H-bomb of…