AFGHANISTAN

Freshman Congressman Tom Cotton explains his opposition to women being allowed to serve in combat roles.

The United States for the first time announcedTuesday that the administration is considering a full withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will meet Friday at the White House to discuss the future of the war and the security situation in Afghanistan.

So far, President Obama's bipartisan move to tap the Republican Hagel to be DOD head isn't being warmly received by certain GOP members.

Monday is the first day in the office after hospitalization for the secretary of state. But she will be handing over her post to John Kerry soon.

President Barack Obama Monday nominated Chuck Hagel to head the U.S. Department of Defense and John Brennan to head the CIA.

Drug seizures have increased by 200 percent over just the past two years in Punjab.

Nazir deviated from the Taliban line frequently.

Gunmen shot dead seven Pakistani charity workers, six of them women, in an attack in northwest Pakistan Tuesday.

The Pakistan government released eight Afghan Taliban prisoners Monday with hopes of invigorating the peace process in Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at the entrance of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday.

U.S. defense spending was on the wane even before the threat of sequestration cuts, and more layoffs loom in the sector.

An Afghan policewoman shot and killed on Monday a civilian contractor for the coalition forces in Afghanistan, news agencies reported citing Afghan police and NATO officials.

Moscow and New Delhi signed new arms deals worth billions of dollars Monday, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first trip to India since he began a new six-year term in May.

The U.S. military officials have launched an investigation into the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Sunday.

The phony Marine seen standing guard outside a California elementary school in response to the deadly Newtown, Conn., shooting in which 20 children died said he was “deeply sorry” over the incident, but claimed he wasn’t responsible for misinformation about his military career.

The British government is expected announce a further withdrawal of U.K. troops from Afghanistan, effectively halving its forces in the country by the end of next summer.

Three more health workers were killed Wednesday in Pakistan when unidentified gunmen a attacked polio vaccine administration camp, in a fresh wave of violence against the U.N.-backed vaccination drive, taking total death toll to eight. The U.N. said it is cancelling a three-day vaccination drive following the bloodshed.

Leadership and management deficiencies within the State Department were blamed for the inadequate security measures at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which came under attack on Sept. 11, leading to the deaths of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans.

National security expert Linda Robinson said operations like those shown in "Zero Dark Thirty" are just one aspect of what U.S. Special Forces do all over the world.

Former Sen. Hagel is a Republican, but that isn't stopping Obama from considering him for DOD, in what may prove to be a smart move.