Michael R. Gordon

Nearly four weeks after the deadly shootings at a central Baghdad square involving the Blackwater USA private security firm, U.S. military officials and Iraqi investigators say the FBI and State...

In rebuffing calls to bring troops home from Iraq, President Bush on Thursday employed a stark and ominous defense. "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq," he...

Agents of Iran helped plan a January raid in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Karbala in which five U.S. soldiers were killed by Islamic militants, a U.S. military spokesman said...

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the UN to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete...

President Bush has decided to name Lt. Gen. David Petraeus as the top American military commander in Iraq, part of a broad revamping of the military team that will carry...

Military planners and White House budget analysts have been asked to provide President Bush options for increasing U.S. forces in Iraq by 20,000 or more. The request indicates that the...

Two days before he resigned last month as defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was...

North Korea said Tuesday that it is not bound by its own moratorium on long-range missile tests as tension over Pyongyang's missile intentions kept mounting. In Washington, a senior State...

North Korea appears to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile, U.S. officials said Sunday, a move that greatly increases the probability that Pyongyang will go ahead with its first...

American forces are carrying out their largest single military operation in Iraq since the end of major fighting, officials said Wednesday, with more than 4,000 soldiers surrounding a 30-square-mile peninsula...