The House and Senate Armed Services Committees are scrambling to salvage this year’s Defense authorization bill after the Senate failed to pass the measure this week.
Read MoreIran retains the technology and material to produce fuel for a weapon for now..
Read MoreGENEVA — The foreign policy chief of the European Union spent much of Thursday in detailed negotiations with Iranian officials over an agreement to temporarily freeze Tehran’s nuclear program..
Read MoreGENEVA — Senior diplomats from six world powers and Iran opened a new round of talks on Wednesday in Geneva amid expectations that they were closing in on an agreement to freeze Tehran’s nuclear program.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — The Pentagon leadership is constructing battle plans. But this battle doesn’t involve tanks rolling across the hills or bombing campaigns.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — In a meeting with Senate leaders on Tuesday, President Obama failed to sway critics of his effort to sign an interim nuclear deal with Iran. But in a modest concession, they agreed to hold off on a vote to impose new sanctions on Iran until after talks in Geneva later this week.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — The US Senate’s 2014 defense authorization bill appears stalled while rank-and-file members and leadership determine a process to debate and vote on amendments.
Read MoreThe director of national intelligence on Monday night released what appeared to be the original court document authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct sweeping collections of Americans’ communications records for counterterrorism purposes.
Read MoreLeaders of Syria’s largest rebel faction and top commanders for al Qaeda’s Iraqi and Syrian factions have reached a peace deal, agreeing to come together to battle the growing Iranian presence in the country.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — The US Senate this week could begin a combative process on a Pentagon policy bill, but the bluster almost entirely will exclude the defense sector’s most-pressing concern: sequestration.
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