WASHINGTON – The “perfect storm of budget uncertainty†howling around his department is the biggest immediate threat facing the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters in Washington yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2013 – The Pentagon pulled out all the stops in welcoming Afghan President Hamid Karzai to meetings with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta here today.
French police say three Kurdish activists, including a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party militant group, have been shot to death in Paris in what the French interior minister has termed an "assassination."
A massive explosion shook the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad today when a car filled with explosives blew up killing seven people and injuring another 17.