Eric Schmitt

President George W. Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow U.S. Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval...

Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan intensified, the Afghan government has depended on U.S. logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But to...

President Bush's senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the CIA and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas...

Investigators examining the bungled terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow six months ago believe the plotters had a link to Al Qaeda in Iraq, which would make the attacks the...

Military officials said Thursday that $6billion in contracts to provide essential supplies to U.S. troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan -- including food, water and shelter -- are under review...

Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchasing and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other materiel to Iraqi and American...

The second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq has concluded that some senior Marine officers were negligent in failing to investigate more aggressively the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last...

A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of Marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killing...

The rash of car bombings in Baghdad last week has fueled new debate over whether the American and Iraqi counterinsurgency strategy is working. The explosions underscored how the elusive networks...

U.S. forces have recovered the bodies of two members of a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team that was reported missing last week after coming under hostile fire in a mountainous...